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If someone here doesn't want to use GNU at all, Plan9 is probably the next best thing. Is there anyone here that actually uses it day to day?

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[–] Pacmanlives@lemmy.world 15 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I mean if I didn’t want to use GNU at all I would just run FreeBSD. Been a solid OS for me since the mid 2000’s.

[–] SamsonSeinfelder@feddit.de 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I am out of the loop: What is the discussion/problem with GNU?

[–] zeppo@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Historically the concerns have been that the GPL is less “free” than the BSD license.

[–] ijhoo@lemmy.ml 6 points 8 months ago
[–] Adanisi@lemmy.zip 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Which is funny because the only thing really that I see people say that because is the fact that you can't remove freedoms from the program then pass it onto users.

The GPL keeps software free forever. It's more free overall.

The likes of BSD are pushover licenses. They'll let you strip the freedom from them, but that results in the end users getting less or no freedom.

On topic of the original post, I actually make an effort to use more GNU software. I love it, I love the software, I love the philosophy. I want more of that.

[–] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

True. Don't know why I didn't think of that. I'm assuming the BSDs don't use GNU's C compiler?

[–] Pacmanlives@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

FreeBSD has used the LLVM Clang compiler for over 10 years