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Why is GrapheneOS against GNU? (grapheneos.social)

submitted 4 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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They say that GNU is spreading misinformation and "stop getting info from charlatans"?

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[–] kitnaht 4 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

Because there is nothing that exists today that is completely, from head-to-tail, open source. Being allowed and able to install closed source software does not make an open ecosystem suddenly closed.

Plenty of Linux systems today rely on binary blobs to make hardware work. Plenty of software can run on an open source ecosystem while itself being closed source.

Richard Stallman is a toe-booger eating weirdo looking for attention.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 weeks ago

What was it I saw recently... There was a FOSS podcast player that is completely open and available, but it was demonized because you could (optionally) add the apples/itunes feed. Like reading an RSS feed from apple made it not "FOSS"

That's where I eyeroll hard. Ffs, having the option to use something proprietary does not closed source make. It was one part of one area of the app, that was like, a dropdown selection.