Before proceeding, you should read ALL of this:
https://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html
Now lets analyze some of your sayings (which, to those who not realize it,
are actions – mainly psychological ones). (non-native English
almost-speaker here; I'll do my best)
Many distros are not branded as GNU/Linux, and although RMS has issues with
that, most of us are okay with it, since it rolls off the tongue easier (Not
to mention Linus Torvalds' take on the semantics). [...]
Trying to reduce the question to personal affects and collective
"not-caring-about" is a dumb thing to do; it goes away from the objective
matter and creates an atmosphere of "FUD" where the winner will most probably
be not the one who loves truth most, but the one who is trained on
psychological subterfuges and sabotage.
Besides, I don't know what you are referring about as "Linus' take on the
semantics". Could you please expose that instead of putting it on background
so an unprepaired reader would assume you're being reasonable without even
the object of analysis at hand?
And truth be told, it's not all GNU either. Apache is not, nor is BIND,
Sendmail, Perl, etc... [...] And if one is to give credit where it's due, Why
isn't RMS and the FSF adamant about calling it LGX, like Yggdrasil did? [...]
Well, no one said it's all GNU; FSF (RMS included) and probably every people
in this forum and over the Free Software community(ies) assume it's not. If
you had read the topic, you would find one of us pointing to this:
https://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html#justgnu
What do you mean by being "adamant" about extending the name? Read this:
https://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html#many
That's just some food for thought though. My real issue is a Linux distro
(I've installed Trisquel and taken it for a test drive) that at the heart of
it's philosophical brand claims to be based on entirely free software (Like
Debian GNU/Linux), yet in my mind isn't, and cannot be.
It is based on the corporate and commercially non-free product base by
Canonical, Inc., ewboontew Linux.
Hm?
Debian GNU/Linux is not entirely Free as Trisquel understand "Free". Trisquel
follows every aspect of the FSDG –
https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html –;
it's not perfect, of course, because non-free issues keep coming from Ubuntu,
but Trisquel's commitment is to get rid of them. Trisquel is Ubuntu purified.
Why have you not understood it?
Here's why Debian GNU/Linux is (and other G/L distros are) not 100% Free
GNU/Linux distribution(s): https://www.gnu.org/distros/common-distros.html
While I applaud the spirit and enthusiasm with which FOSS supporters such as
myself [Wait there, buddy. You are applauding yourself...!] exert their
efforts to spread awareness, understanding, and usage/adoption; [...]
Lets just not mix Free Software with Open Source:
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html
[...] I simply cannot see myself recommending a distro that claims to be
completely free, that is primarily spawned and based upon another that is
certainly not - ewboontew! [...]
I'm sure you do not know too much about Trisquel. Please read the first
paragraph of this: https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/documentation
It appears to me you are "porting" your bad feeling about Ubuntu to other
things that have not to do with the causes of that feeling.
[...] I've been using Linux and the BSDs since Jolix, SLS, MCC Interim,
Yggdrasil, Slackware, and Debian were birthed, [...]
Wooah, some authority in the matter is rising!
[...] and almost find myself offended that the Trisquel maintainers have the
audacity to make such a claim. [...]
Well, Your Majesty, I'm sorry your "crown" has been claimed by someone else.
What will we do about it?
[...] My recommendation - go back to Debian, and all will be forgiven. [...]
Your mercy lay upon us, O grateful one! Perhaps we should be scared of being
summarily executed, sent to Siberia or something like that...
[...] Or stop calling it FREE (As in FSF FREE), because I believe that doing
so is a sham and the connotations are contrary to the mission, or at the very
least, the "spirit" of the FOSS community. [...]
Wait there. FSF explicitly recognizes Trisquel as one of the few 100% Free
GNU/Linux Distributions: https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html –
what do you mean by "stop calling it free as in "FSF free"?)
And well, Merlin, your clock is inverted. FSF came before every "FOSS"
community; if you have ever read anything about Free Software history, you
would know that. For example, without doing so much research:
"For more than a decade now, the Free Software Foundation has argued against
this "open source" characterization of the free software movement. Free
software advocates have primarily argued against this framing because "open
source" is an explicit effort to deemphasize our core message of freedom and
obscure our movement's role in the success of the software we have built. We
have argued that "open source" is bad, fundamentally, because it attempts to
keep people from talking about software freedom."
http://mako.cc/writing/hill-when_free_software_isnt_better.html
You can find more about GNU and its history here:
https://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu.html
[...] I hope that helps :)
You are really out of your mind.
