lignux, meaning a combination for gnu and linux, was proposed and rejected with such violence that I do not recommend using it unless you really mean to ruffle those feathers and attract hatred towards you

I suppose you're right that I shouldn't attribute to Alpine developers the spite that maybe comes only from GNU haters that might not even be related to Alpine. but I'm pretty sure I've seen that sort of GNU-free goal expressed by people involved with Alpine, and there seemed to be an emotional background that seemed far stronger than any technical rationale that may have driven the development of the individual components. to each their own, I guess ;-)