@charlie_root It's a terrible ideal to try to compare a kernel to an OS, but I guess how proprietary each is can be compared.


I would say that OpenBSD is worse when it comes to proprietary software.

It has a script that automatically downloads and install proprietary software without asking you if its detected that such exists for your hardware.

Many installation recipes automatically download proprietary software as well without even asking.

There isn't any meaningful difference between a package containing proprietary software and a package with machinery that downloads proprietary software without even asking during installation.


Some Linux developers at least admit that Linux is proprietary, but I remember reading a comment from Theo that proprietary software installed by OpenBSD is "free and open" merely because the proprietary software was gratis and the proprietary master allowed indirect distribution to more suckers.