Notices by CyberSpook?? (cyberspook@soc.redeyes.site)

The freedom to run the program as you wish means that you are not forbidden or stopped from making it run. This has nothing to do with what functionality the program has, whether it is technically capable of functioning in any given environment, or whether it is useful for any particular computing activity.

I’m thinking about how other proprietary programs (like DRM) can effectively refuse you such a freedom. Does that mean that the libre software in question actually provides you Freedom 0? Due to its dependence on a proprietary program that denies you this freedom, it does not. That’s the reason why GPLv3 exists in the first place.

And that’s why an open-source DRM is an absurdity. It’s a libre software that ironically makes all the other software non-libre (but the other software is probably closed-source so you can’t just “untie” it).

@thatonecalculator

“I use GNU+Linux as my operating system,” I state proudly to the well-dressed, clean-shaven woman. She swivels around in her desk chair with a devilish gleam in her eyes, ready to womansplain with extreme precision. “Actually”, she says with a grin, “I use Alpine, a distro that doesn’t include the GNU Coreutils, or any other GNU code. It’s Linux, but it’s not GNU+Linux.’ I don’t miss a beat and reply with a smirk, “There are complete systems that contain Linux and not GNU; Android is an example. But it is a mistake to call them ‘Linux’ systems, just as it is a mistake to call GNU a ‘Linux’ system.“

The smile quickly drops from the woman’s face. Her body begins convulsing and she foams at the mouth and drops to the floor with a sickly thud. As she writhes around she screams “I-IT WORKS WITH SYSTEMD! THAT MEANS IT’S STILL LINUX!” Coolly, I reply “If Windows worked with SystemD, would that make it Linux?” I interrupt her response with “-and work is being made on the software to make it more init-agnostic. Even if you were correct, you won’t be for long.”

With a sickly wheeze, the last of the woman’s life is ejected from her body. She lies on the floor, cold and limp. I’ve mansplained her to death.

@lanodan

Man, the article do be kinda salty in the beginning. Especially with the author calling Stallman’s fans “fossbros.” Anyway, to the actual arguments.

…non-Systemd distributions must patch them to run without Systemd.

Well, there are many other things to patch in Linux-based systems:

• Wayland support
• Package manager support (KHE-KHEM, NixOS, KHE-KHEM)
• C library support
• audio support (other than PulseAudio there are also sndio and PipeWire)
• backports
• and other things

Anyway, all of this is irrelevant because the argument is not for calling it systemd+Linux but for calling it Linux. Which is flawed by default. At minimum what would make sense is calling it a “Linux-based Unix-like.” Which isn’t exactly a name. More like a vague discription.

@schamschula

So I guess you’re using Linux as your desktop. Sorry!

That sounded so arrogant. As if in your mind whoever uses GNU+Linux as a desktop instead of a server is a fool or has some kind of a perversion.
@Suiseiseki