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[–] grue@lemmy.world -4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Because the distinction matters. The corporate raping of Linux has to stop being tolerated or else nothing is solved. The technical details of the kernel don't actually matter; the licensing and openness is what matters. Hell, if the Windows NT kernel got magically relicensed to AGPLv3 tomorrow it would instantly become the superior option just because of that.

Linux doesn't fucking matter. Copyleft matters.

[–] Rothe@piefed.social 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Sigh. This kind of nonsense is why so many people get scared away from even trying linux. Who cares which distro you use, as long as it is linux it is a step in the right direction, and a whole lot of people (including myself) have taken that step very recently, despite some arrogant linux bros doing their best to gatekeep us away from even trying.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

do you seriously think roku, tizen, amazon fire are a step in the right direction?

[–] Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 1 points 13 minutes ago

No they arnt, but also using terminology like rape is a huge problem. He's entirely right, the avg vocal Linux user is fucking insane. And a big reason there's still much misinformation and fud around Linux for your avg user.

The worse thing for Linux is unironically it's fucking vocal users.