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GNU Boot sent a cease and desist to Libreboot

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Re: GNU Boot sent a cease and desist to Libreboot

#11

Haha, I can't deny that I love the catty drama that happens around the free software community. While I do wish people would get along better for the health of the project, I also suspect that these strong characters are why the movement hasn't been completedo taken over by corporate interests.

I was thinking it's part of the reason it never offered a cohesive desktop OS.

Re: GNU Boot sent a cease and desist to Libreboot

#13

Haha, I can't deny that I love the catty drama that happens around the free software community. While I do wish people would get along better for the health of the project, I also suspect that these strong characters are why the movement hasn't been completedo taken over by corporate interests.

I was thinking it's part of the reason it never offered a cohesive desktop OS.

Okay, everyone, line up behind KDE and push!

Re: GNU Boot sent a cease and desist to Libreboot

#14

Haha, I can't deny that I love the catty drama that happens around the free software community. While I do wish people would get along better for the health of the project, I also suspect that these strong characters are why the movement hasn't been completedo taken over by corporate interests.

> I also suspect that these strong characters are why the movement hasn't been completedo taken over by corporate interests

They already serve 99% of corporate interests. A "takeover" would sacrifice the veil of what the propagandized "open source community" interprets as corporate egalitarianism.

Re: GNU Boot sent a cease and desist to Libreboot

#15

Haha, I can't deny that I love the catty drama that happens around the free software community. While I do wish people would get along better for the health of the project, I also suspect that these strong characters are why the movement hasn't been completedo taken over by corporate interests.

I was thinking it's part of the reason it never offered a cohesive desktop OS.

Are you suggesting the corporate interests want that?

I think in fact the corporate interests already get 99% of everything they want and they simply don't care for a cohesive desktop OS.

Re: GNU Boot sent a cease and desist to Libreboot

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post #14

Haha, I can't deny that I love the catty drama that happens around the free software community. While I do wish people would get along better for the health of the project, I also suspect that these strong characters are why the movement hasn't been completedo taken over by corporate interests.

> I also suspect that these strong characters are why the movement hasn't been completedo taken over by corporate interests They already serve 99% of corporate interests. A "takeover" would sacrifice the veil of what the propagandized "open source community" interprets as corporate egalitarianism.

If you make no distinction between free software and open source, sure. But the free software community, centered around fsf, is known to be hard to work with.

Re: GNU Boot sent a cease and desist to Libreboot

#17

Haha, I can't deny that I love the catty drama that happens around the free software community. While I do wish people would get along better for the health of the project, I also suspect that these strong characters are why the movement hasn't been completedo taken over by corporate interests.

I was thinking it's part of the reason it never offered a cohesive desktop OS.

Linux already has a cohesive de, it's called emacs!!
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