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   翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 26-Sep-2024 22:40:55 JST 翠星石
   What is wrong with people? GNU delivers so much freedom and they refuse to even name it.
   
   GNU ensured a fully free OS became realized and people call it "Linux".
   
   GNU has provided a whole family of free software licenses, expertly crafted and people call them "open source licenses".
   
   GNU ensured the fediverse became practical for general usage by releasing GNU social and people call it "Mastodon" instead.
   
   There must be a proprietary agenda behind all of this.
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     sepples (sepples@pone.social)'s status on Thursday, 26-Sep-2024 22:50:43 JST sepples

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     @Suiseiseki I always name the GNU.

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 26-Sep-2024 23:03:42 JST 翠星石

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     • Monkey J. Tsubo
     @tsubocchi >these people just pretend that GNU doesn't exist
     Rather than merely pretend it doesn't exist, they do their absolute best to try to stop people from learning that GNU exists.
     
     If that isn't possible, they try to claim that GNU is just a coreutils, or just a collection of tools and claim everything GNU is "fully replaceable" (there are only a handful of re-implementions of GNU software, that were only possible to write thanks to GNU and they all suck compared to the original) to downplay what was done and what is being done.
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     Monkey J. Tsubo (tsubocchi@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 26-Sep-2024 23:03:43 JST Monkey J. Tsubo

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     @Suiseiseki I swear, these people just pretend that GNU doesn't exist, or clearly haven't read rms' blog articles and agree with his personal views towards stuff like Discord. I mean, what's wrong with using ERC with Emacs to connect to an IRC server? These people clearly haven't gotten the memo that Discord is about as vile as you can get in terms of spyware "web apps", yet these unwilling consumers think it's the end-all be-all replacement to stuff like IRC, forums, or even file hosts.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Saturday, 28-Sep-2024 00:56:55 JST 翠星石

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     • Anthk
     @anthk Yes, every distribution of proprietary coreutils were turds, had arbitrary limits and could be easily made to crash with random input.
     
     Even early in development, when there was only a few packages plus a coreutils, GNU coreutils became the de-facto standard coreutils for even proprietary Unix as they tended to work properly and didn't have arbitrary limits.
     
     GNU coreutils is the most developed, featureful and debugged coreutils, but people are obsessed with not using it for seemingly the only reason being that it defends the users freedom?
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     Anthk (anthk@paquita.masto.host)'s status on Saturday, 28-Sep-2024 00:56:56 JST Anthk

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     • Monkey J. Tsubo

     @Suiseiseki @tsubocchi back in the day the turd were the OG Unix utils. Slower and bug ridden.