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On 5/6/2024 1:37 PM, Joel wrote:
> DFS <nospam@dfs.com> wrote:
> 
>>> Was he drinking, when he called Mint "my master"?
>>
>> For a while now, you have sounded like a proud slave of Linux Mint.
> 
> 
> I was not a slave of Windows, much less Mint.  That's hardly the
> standard by which I compare them, since in truth there's a lot more
> similarity here than not.  It's computer software and fairly
> controllable.  When I talk independence from Microsoft I mean that
> they are fundamentally different from a free and open source OS.


Unless you're putting together Linux From Scratch, you're a slave to the 
distro makers.  So am I (Windows is a distro).