Any community centered around "Linux" is destined to go astray. Not because of using the name "Linux" instead of "GNU/Linux", but because it only loosely ties the community to what actually matters: free software. Inevitably, not only systems like Ubuntu and Mint, but even systems like SteamOS will get praised, because that's how religious followings of specific programs work.

A magazine focused on free software, or even open source, would be much better than a magazine focused on "Linux" or even "GNU/Linux". And it wouldn't gratuitously exclude the BSD projects, to boot.

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