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   翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Saturday, 18-Nov-2023 00:30:01 JST 翠星石

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   • Rydia
   @rydia GNU/Linux is more commonly used, simply because GNU's software is the best software you can get most of the time.
   
   BusyBox/Linux and all the BSD's frankly suck in comparison to GNU on purely technical grounds.
   
   
   When it comes to running the software, all of the BSDs licenses are more restrictive than any license in the GPL family;
   BSD 4-clause; "... use in source and binary forms ... are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:"
   GPLv3; "You are not required to accept this License in order to receive or run a copy of the Program."
   
   If the software isn't distributed, the freedom-ensuring terms of say the GPLv2 don't kick in.
   
   Companies don't like the AGPLv3, which requires that the source code of the software be provided to users if it's modified and used to perform the computing of other users.
   
   
   >For BSD if macOS counts then yeah, everyone uses macOS for workstations.
   macOS isn't a BSD, although a lot of software from BSD's was copied, in exchange for a whole $5 donation (resulting from a donation matching scheme for an apple employee it seems).
   
   If you want to get real work done, macOS is a poor choice for a workstation, but I guess you can use it to pretend to do work.
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     Rydia (rydia@fosstodon.org)'s status on Saturday, 18-Nov-2023 00:30:03 JST Rydia

     why it's GNU/Linux rather than *BSD or non-GNU Linuxes which dominates almost every tech companies, even if the BSD License is more permissive and supposed to be more "business friendly"?

     Alpine might exist in some of containers but that's it. For BSD if macOS counts then yeah, everyone uses macOS for workstations.