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@Suiseiseki @RustyCrab @jmw150 @Nudhul because your religion doesn't allow you to use anything proprietary or else you will go to /dev/null so turn off your computer and give it away as a charity

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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Sunday, 02-Feb-2025 21:10:35 JST

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@lina @RustyCrab @jmw150 @Nudhul There is nowhere in the holy scriptures that say you're not allowed to use proprietary software - all they do is describe the consequences of proprietary software and advise you decide yourself if you'll like to surrender your freedom or keep it.

I don't have just one computer and most people wouldn't appreciate the freedom of a GNUbooted computer even if you gave it to them gratis.

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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Sunday, 02-Feb-2025 21:10:54 JST

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@jmw150 @RustyCrab @Nudhul https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-hardware-designs.en.html

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Cyborg Anthropologist (jmw150@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 02-Feb-2025 21:10:55 JST

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@Suiseiseki @RustyCrab @Nudhul There is an open hardware movement called FOSH.

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Lina Inver?e (lina@eientei.org)'s status on Sunday, 02-Feb-2025 21:13:32 JST

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@Suiseiseki @RustyCrab @jmw150 @Nudhul you should refer to the unholy scriptures written on parchment made out of rms's sentient foot callus skin where it is said that if you dare use anything proprietary at any point of your life, your soul is going to /dev/null

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Protoss (latein@cawfee.club)'s status on Sunday, 02-Feb-2025 21:18:44 JST

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@Suiseiseki @RustyCrab @lina @jmw150 @Nudhul yet having proprietary software in the AUR makes a distro proprietary or something

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Lina Inver?e (lina@eientei.org)'s status on Sunday, 02-Feb-2025 21:18:44 JST

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@latein @RustyCrab @Suiseiseki @jmw150 @Nudhul yuo dont get it arch isnt a real distro or something

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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Sunday, 02-Feb-2025 21:19:07 JST

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@lina @RustyCrab @jmw150 @Nudhul (Spoiler; you don't have a soul, thus upon death you experience /dev/null whether you want to or no, no matter what you did in life).

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Lina Inver?e (lina@eientei.org)'s status on Sunday, 02-Feb-2025 21:20:12 JST

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@Suiseiseki @RustyCrab @jmw150 @Nudhul oh no
he got his soul /dev/null'd before he died for daring to dabble in the proprietary
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Sunday, 02-Feb-2025 21:30:59 JST

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@latein @RustyCrab @lina @jmw150 @Nudhul https://www.gnu.org/distros/common-distros.html#Arch

While the AUR is chock full of proprietary software, the default repository is chock full of proprietary software too;
https://archlinux.org/packages/core-testing/x86_64/linux/
https://archlinux.org/packages/core/any/linux-firmware/
https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/nvidia/
https://archlinux.org/packages/core/any/amd-ucode/
https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/any/intel-ucode/
https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/sof-firmware/

None of those packages have marking that signifies that they're proprietary, either putting "custom" as the license or even pretend that proprietary binaries are under a free software license.

Arch's default repository only offers proprietary versions of Linux, which alone makes Arch proprietary.

pacman doesn't have the ability to select accepted licenses either, thus it's very difficult to use Arch is freedom without accidentally installing proprietary software.

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