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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Mar-2025 20:04:32 JST 翠星石
@MXLinux I don't have my own depiction of freedom - any driver or other program that doesn't respect all 4 freedoms (https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html#four-freedoms) is not free.
MX GNU/Linux is proprietary software, as if you extract the MX-23.5_x64.iso and then extract "antiX/linuxfs' [sic] you'll find lots of proprietary software that denies the user freedom under; lib/firmware and also under "usr/bin/ddm-mx", there appears to be an unlicensed script (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#NoLicense) that installs proprietary software, plus there's probably a lot more proprietary software.
It appears you distribute a less proprietary than usual version of the kernel, Linux (as you use Debian's version and Debian removes much of the clearly GPLv2-infringing proprietary software from Linux, although it seems they don't really bother with suspicious arrays that probably contain software and it still recommends that the user install proprietary software) - sadly you don't use the fully free GNU Linux-libre.
>is not possible in means of a working system for great many use cases yet.
You write that, but I go to the most proprietary intel system and try Trisquel GNU/Linux-libre it and install no proprietary software and it works fine with full speed 3D acceleration?
Even on a proprietary Intel system with a Nvidia GPU, Trisquel works fine too with 3D acceleration, although Trisquel can't do anything about nvidia sabotaging the fans so they won't spin up without a handcuffed proprietary program, thus you get idle clocks (which works fine for the Church of Emacs and web browsing and simple games, but is not great for proprietary games).
Loading proprietary software onto a system is a convenience, or an act of power (in the case where it is automatically forced onto the users, with the intention of them not even realizing that they are running proprietary software), not something that furthers freedom.
What is harming free software is relentless ruinous compromises, where more and more proprietary software keeps being put it (and never taken out until it becomes totally obsolete), rendering what should be a free system more and more nonfree; https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/compromise.html