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@lxo

I'm really starting to like this thread, also because that post really confuses me: What is a "local bootstrap"?

On https://bootstrappable.org we say:

"Do you know how to make yoghurt? The first step is to add yoghurt to milk!"
(and no worries, this also holds for/we're probably talking about soy-based yoghurt")

Either your "local bootstrap" is not a bootstrap at all and you've been injecting binaries downloaded from the interwebs. Even if you ran some parts of its build process actually building some things from source with those binaries, what could be the use of that? After all, the easiest way to not-bootstrap a program is to just download it in binary/runnable form right away.

Or, you have (possibly freshly created) a bootstrap for the program, but haven't shared it yet, and thus the program is (or you just made it) "bootstrappable" and it is truly (eligible to be) free software, and we now may exercise "freedom 0".

So...which is it, or what did I miss?