@PurpCat @xianc78 >UPDATE: When asked whether Linus Torvalds was under any sort of NDA around this, he responded:

>"No, but I'm not a lawyer, so I'm not going to go into the details that I - and other maintainers - were told by lawyers. I'm also not going to start discussing legal issues with random internet people who I seriously suspect are paid actors and/or have been riled up by them."

it's over

@PurpCat @xianc78 btw that shmerl guy holy shit stop drinkign so much zog cum you retarded faggot

@nach @xianc78 There is an idea of a Drew Devault; some kind of abstraction. But there is no real me: only an entity, something illusory. And though I can hide my cold gaze, and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable... I simply am not there.

@nach @PurpCat
>it's over
No, it's not. Linux is still usable and you don't have to give the Linux Foundation any money. I think there would be enough people to maintain a stable fork if worse comes to worst.

None of the other options (BSD, illumos, etc) can realistically run on anything other than the exact old ThinkPad model that the contributors use.

@xianc78 @nach illumos is more "if it's a server it works if it's a desktop good luck"

@PurpCat @nach I want an actual desktop operating system, not some server or mainframe OS pretending to be one. Haiku seems like the perfect choice for me, but it needs more supported hardware and software for me to use it as a daily driver.

@xianc78 @nach illumos only ended that way because nobody worked on the desktop
It was a competent desktop os in the Solaris/OpenSolaris era

@PurpCat @nach Well, Haiku is a clone of BeOS, and I don't think BeOS was ever used in servers. The only thing remotely server related I know of in Haiku is the PoorMan webserver, and it's a really basic webserver at that.

@xianc78 @PurpCat i know and it's not like those other systems aren't filled with trannies either, probably

bazzite is working great for my vidya so i'm not planning on switching

@nach @PurpCat Is Theo de Raadt (the OpenBSD maintainer) still anti-woke? I remember hearing that he openly mocks the concept of CoCs.

@xianc78 @PurpCat idk, don't follow BSD things

@PurpCat @xianc78 it's a literal nothingburger

@PurpCat @xianc78 I think we're seeing a surge of FOSS autism wars all of a sudden. Like at least we have 4 FOSS autism wars going on right now.

Proprietary software wins again.

@eric @xianc78 it's obvious what caused it but you're not allowed to say it

@PurpCat @xianc78 what is it

@eric @xianc78 everyone being high on drugs