Ive just realized that Canonical, the company behind ubuntu, is a for profit corporation.
Debian also has corporate sponsors and red hat also contributes to the linux ecosystem and is also for profit.
Free software is a lie.
Ive just realized that Canonical, the company behind ubuntu, is a for profit corporation
Nolan Reed
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David Johnson
Based faggot retard.
Zachary Robinson
Free as in libre, not gratis.
Christian Allen
What about Arch and Gentoo, the supremo autismo distros? There's also Trisquel, shilled heavily by our lord and saviour.
Elijah Perry
However, OpenBSD, NetBSD, and DragonFlyBSD are free from corporate and for-profit influence. Try them out.
Owen Ramirez
Adding in Void and Bodhi. Mint is fairly clean, too.
Easton Morris
The only way free software will ever work is when big companies help it and support it.
They need a reason to support the free software (they sell licenses, support etc) an exchange for making the software not shit, even then it's pretty shit in comparison to anything Apple makes.
Aaron Lewis
Having sponsors is not the same thing as being a for profit corporation. Debian is as free as they come. Even FSF endorsed distros aren't as freedom as Debian, they prevent you from installing nonfree software.
Liam Jackson
fpbp
Juan Foster
no, whats a lie is that free software = communism ie doesnt pay
Jace Foster
That took you a long time.
>Debian also has corporate sponsors
So has KDE and many other major open source projects.
>Free software is a lie.
???
Nowhere in most open source licenses is it forbidden to operate a for profit company?
What exactly is being lied about.
Grayson Peterson
>OpenBSD
Sponsored by Microsoft, Facebook, Yandex, Google.
openbsdfoundation.org
Daniel Jenkins
>What about Arch and Gentoo
Arch apparently just has two corporate sponsors, Gentoo multiple.
Among them Nvidia and HP.
gentoo.org
archlinux.org
Luis White
I like software and performance. No thanks
Bentley Long
>mfw its canon
Tyler Murphy
you dumb motherfucker. It's not a crime to make $ off libre software as rms will tell you.
Wyatt Roberts
ITT: braindead frogshit cannot tell libre and gratis free, regardless of how many times it was explained by Stallman and man.
Carson Barnes
>arch
>supremo autismo
t. `look ma i managed to read a page with 20 commands and typed them down`
>NVIDIA has provided the Gentoo project with numerous AMD development machines and video cards to further development of Gentoo on the Athlon XP and Athlon64 platforms.
>NVIDIA
>provided the Gentoo project with numerous AMD development machines
nani?
Jacob Hill
Ubuntu, Debian and the Linux kernel are all non-free software.
Cameron Bennett
Yes, and?
Let's see an operating system sponsored by pocket money:
freedos
Okay, have fun. Retard.
Nicholas Bailey
>NVIDIA has provided the Gentoo project with numerous AMD development machines and video cards to further development of Gentoo on the Athlon XP and Athlon64 platforms.
Is this why Linus said
>Fuck nvidia
Robert Green
>AthlonXP
>Athlon64
This was before amd bought ati.
Landon Clark
>Athlon XP and Athlon64
user, this was long before AMD bought up ATI.
Charles Scott
>Yes, and?
The claim that they are free from corporate influence seems to be highly dubious.
But don't get me wrong, I don't think this is really "bad" and I am completely fine with FOSS projects taking corporate money.
Camden Davis
Corporates give that money to ensure that the handy software they use themselves is kept alive. Free software is far from useless.
Anthony Rodriguez
Free as in freedom. As long as the software remains free it doesn't matter who supports it.
Logan Cox
>Free software is a lie.
Free as in not free unless you redefine the word free like some newspeak cult member.