quotingnpub1z5rxmrt9l59y2256e5kzmfj44ydpnhgj04dq6qumjvwehe2pk30qz4rjcc (npub1z5r…rjcc) "I use Linux as my operating system" I state proudly to the unkempt, bearded man. He swivels around in his desk chair with a emacsish gleam in his eyes, ready to interject with extreme precision. "Actually", he says with a grin, "Linux is only a kernel and is useless by itself. You most likely use GNU+Linux!' I don't miss a beat and reply with a smirk, "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."
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The smile quickly enhances on the mans face as he launched a GNU/Reply; "You use BusyBox+Linux. BusyBox is designed to be an imitator of GNU, although it's quite mediocre as it only replicates a few GNU packages and lacks many important flags too.", the man then took a powerful breath into his GNU/Lungs and continued; "Furthermore, GNU coreutils is only one GNU package out of 388, plus Alpine BusyBox/Linux is compiled with GCC and its own wiki admits that you need to install GNU software to get anything normal done".
Satanically, I reply "If windows were compiled with GCC, would that make it GNU?". He replies; "No, although there are ports to GNU software to windows, some of which work out of be GNU+the kernel of windows, or GNU+kWindows for short and that is indeed GNU, no matter how many people call it 'Linux' by mistake".
With a sickly wheeze, the last of proprietary rot was ejected from my body. The proprietary daemon lay on the floor, cold and limp - not skipping a beat, he proceeded to GNU/Exorcise the daemon with M-x exorcise.
He gladly exclaimed that this was the 9001st proprietary daemon exorcised - I finally had been rescued from the proprietary dark.
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