hi! there's a widely used meme here in argentina that says "it's ok to install and recommend convenience-focused distros because they're 99% libre", followed by "...since we can't get rid of that 1% just yet".
since i've recently read it went up to 99.98% i decided to check how much this "proportion of unfreedomness" is. we discussed this on #parabola and for archlinux the proportion never went more than 97%, for instance: * 5714 packages from arch provided by parabola * 564 packages from arch being blacklisted from parabola From the latter: * 201 packages without libre replacements * 33 packages removed or replaced because of branding issues * 52 packages removed or replaced because they recommend unfree software or services so: * 479 packages blacklisted for being unfree themselves (not branding nor recommendations) gives: 479 * 100 / (479 + 5714) = 7.72 so according to this meme the correct thing to say about archlinux is that "it's 92.28% libre" :) would it be interesting for other distros to debunk this meme? -- http://endefensadelsl.org
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