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   翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 16-May-2024 22:39:49 JST 翠星石

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   • Dushman
   • voltrina
   @voltrina @dushman Inducing the user to install proprietary software by claiming that such is a feature (here's this repo we recommend with more and more proprietary malware added daily) rather than treating it as something to be eliminated, meaning the system is going in the complete opposite direction to freedom.
   
   Typically, once proprietary software is added, it's almost never removed, aside from when such is completely obsolete after 20+ years.
   
   Debian is an example as to the slippery slope of proprietary rot - first they added a repo full of proprietary malware and shilled it, then they did a bunch of other proprietary things that ended in them including proprietary software in the installer and installing it without asking the user or even displaying what was installed.
   
   
   On all free distros, the user is free to install whatever software they want - the user is free to add whatever 3rd party repositories they want to the package manager after all.
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     voltrina (voltrina@pl.voltrina.net)'s status on Thursday, 16-May-2024 22:39:52 JST voltrina

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     • meso
     • Dushman
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     • Phantasm
     • m
     • meso [netzsphaere era]
     they see it as promotion of Proprietary Software™
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     Dushman (dushman@den.raccoon.quest)'s status on Thursday, 16-May-2024 22:39:57 JST Dushman

     • :patchy_wat: fourty :patchy_peek:
     • meso
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     • Phantasm
     • m
     • meso [netzsphaere era]

     @phnt@fluffytail.org @meso@the.asbestos.cafe @f_o_u_r_t_y@shrine.moe @talviunelias@bunnyanarchy.org @m@berserker.town @Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com @meso@netzsphaere.xyz
     I get them wanting to only certify distros that have no proprietary software out of the box. Why do they care about optional stuff though?