Corporate Spam Bot
@linux
is a booster-bot not really of linux, I would say ANTI-LINUX, and promotes constantly marketing by 3-4 corporations that seek to dominate linux and displace all alternatives.
Portrays as linux the products of IBM (systemd, Qt-corporation) and the distros that promote them by prohibiting alternatives.
BAN the corporate spam bot from all servers!
What, no, it’s a Lemmy community about linux. It’s not a bot.
You mean it is a community that exclusively publishes corporate products as linux making no acknowledgement that alternatives exist?
No, I obviously don’t. There are a lot of independent users in this community, and, as far as I know the moderators do not censor those “alternatives”. This community practically lives of open source software.
We’re often not even from same instances. “@Linux” is [email protected] , I’m on lemmy.world, FQQD here is on lemmy.ohaa.xyz and others are from any of the possible hundreds.
This is about what I expected from someone on a general purpose mastodon instance.
Spoiler: Mastodon isn’t the only software that can interact with Mastodon
It’s a spam bot? But you just posted on it. I don’t promote cycling out the back of my ford truck. What is it with these fellow penguins taking such offence from corporations anyway? I’m as anti-capitalist as the next person but embrace reality, they’re not going anywhere for a while.
IBM & The Qt Company are distinctly separate entities, and always have been.
And they have made money not by sharing but by monopolizing and selling, which makes them who they are.
You are a foul if you think a for profit (even non-profit) corporation will have an interest advancing Open and Free software. They are there to OWN code and trade names, MARKET trade names, to defeat alternatives that lack corporate/banking funding.
Qt’s late licensing is more insulting and provocative than MS Oracel IBM Google Facebook put together.
It probably took a 5story legal firm to disect through GPL licensing to figure out a way they can sell and not be open unless you pay
not be open unless you pay
Literally just
git clone🫵🃏RedHat is/was to IBM what Qt is to Oracle, vehicles of domination into the open free ecosystem. Marketing dictates what “free” code to use.
Show me 1 ONE article in phoronics that “mentions” alternatives to systemd, and I will not speak of linux or foss ever again!
That would be #OpenRC #S6 #66 #Runit #DaemonTools #Synit etc.
@Rustmilian Now that is #marketing not #FOSS
Marketing dictates what “free” code to use.
No. What dictates that is the license the code is under.
Show me 1 ONE article in phoronics that “mentions” alternatives to systemd, and I will not speak of linux or foss ever again!
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Gentoo-GNOME-3.30-No-Systemd
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Devuan-3.1-Released
https://www.phoronix.com/news/TrueOS-OpenRC
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GhostBSD-21.09.06-Released
https://www.phoronix.com/news/MTc4NDM
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Dragora-3.0-Beta-2
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Void-Linux-November-2018
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-Shepherd-0.10
https://www.phoronix.com/news/BSD-LLVM-Linux-Alpha-Coming
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Chimera-Linux-2022
https://www.phoronix.com/news/MTc5MzA
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Sysvinit-3.08Init is just one process, 98% of systemd is its logind, or its isolated fork called elogind, and its multilayered dbus labyrinth, which all those mentioned use. Running gnome and its applications without it is nearly impossible
@RustmilianThe one article almost literally says if you don’t like systemd go to F**BSD and away from linux!
But yes, there are those irrelevant 3 mentions in a site as old as systemd itself.
What bot?
Your only mention is a community, where there are multiple people posting and commenting about different Linux related subjects.
It’s more akin to a mastodon hashtag than to a user, which makes your clamoring for ban a bit weird.I am clearly speaking of the @linux bot constantly pumping systemd only distros, gnome, kde plasma, chrome, qt and other corporate trash that ubuntu mint manjaro debian have embraced as their devs are on the corporate payroll
Ok, but what you’re mentioning is actually a Linux community on a lemmy instance. That’s like a fediverse version of a linux subreddit.
It might show up weird on mastodon, idk.
The bot you speak of does not exist (or you didn’t mention their username), https://lemmy.ml/c/linux is just a collection of different people posting different threads about linux related stuff.Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: [email protected]
constantly pumping systemd only distros, gnome, kde plasma, chrome, qt and other corporate trash that ubuntu mint manjaro debian have embraced as their devs are on the corporate payroll
Have you ever considered that, maybe, just maybe, that the reason the Linux community on [email protected] talks primarily about these distros are 1. Because the majority use them, and 2. They’re the only distros that consistently prove to be worth talking about.
Also, who the fuck is talking about chrome here. I’ve not seen that, ChromeOS maybe, but chrome browser? yeah fuckin right.
The majority of people speak of junk/fast food 3 brands of soda, 2, 3 brands of coffee/tea, 2 brnands of tropical fruit ,3 brands of power-drinks, 3 brands of beer,
as nutrition, 2 brands of phone OSs, and it is all crap if not bad for you.So what is your point?
What is popular is what has been marketed, and it is usually both dominant and a very poor alternative to what it sells for.
You should just block 99% of Linux insistence if you’re that butt hurt over what’s popular.
Also, the Linux community consistently doesn’t give a rats ass about marketing, we only care about what works well.
X11/Xorg for example is dying not “because of marketing”, it’s dying because it an unmaintainable mess with numerous unfixable problems and downright design flaws. That’s why freedesktop.org in collaboration with Xorg devs created and develop Wayland.
brb, soup
