Yes. Steam works on FreeBSD, but most of us just play simpler games.

U.S. laws just shouldn’t be for everyone.

I recommend to also look at other operating systems. OpenBSD will never do any of that.

Told you so.

It forces everyone who wants to contribute anything to use the GPL as well.

The freedom to just take my free code, fork it into a closed product and become rich with it is important to me, because my goal is to write good software that is useful for as many people as possible. Why wouldn’t I want my good software to make people’s lives better just because the entity that sells it does not contribute anything back? Honestly, there is a lack of value for me.

I see that the leaders of kernel development had to remove maintainers for legal reason, because Linux is legally U.S.-based, so U.S. sanctions matter.

Yes, anyone could just fork it. But right now, the only relevant version of Linux is the one that is an U.S. kernel. 🤷‍♂️

Then why, you think, did he have to remove U.S.-sanctioned maintainers?

The GPL restricts more freedom than the BSD licenses do.

Do you have any reasonable point that invalidates mine?

Linus is a U.S. citizen.

Linux is not an operating system

Please do not start the “GNU/Linux” pedantry now.

many Linux-based distros (“operating systems”) are not under US jurisdiction

Repackaging US software - and Linux-the-kernel and much of Linux-the-userland is, obviously, US software - in Europe does not suddenly make US jurisdiction go away.

OpenRC is severely underrated in my opinion.

Unlike Linux, OpenBSD is not under US jurisdiction.

New wave of OpenBSD users incoming. Good.

In a more successful place, I presume.

I will start donating to the FSFE when they stop their crusade against RMS.

If it’s not Gentoo, I’m not interested.

Real persons do not use Linux.

I promise you that quite a few people do, and they all use Linux. Source: My actual life.

Let me rephrase: After months of constant nagging by Linux users, Windowsers briefly tried it and found that their personal needs aren’t well met by either OS.