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Just found out that Alpine Linux does not use the GNU tools. Nothing wrong with that in itself, but this goes against sustainability principles. GNU tools are amazing and devs have put tons of work in it. The philosophy behind GNU is solid. I see no reason to disband their valuable and useful work.
I have found quite some toxic messages on the web about Richard Stallman, who took the initiative for GNU, and I find them frankly quite disrespectful. Often it is new young devs who jump on the Linux wagon because Linux became cool, it became mainstream.
SO now you got all the hackers coming in on Linux. Many of them have no understanding whatsoever of the counterculture of the sixties and seventies that caused Linux into being and they would give what makes Linux unique away in a split second.
We ought to pay respect to people like Richard Stallman, and the GNU project in general, which is a group of people, not just RSM. It is because of unkind self-centered people who do not try to understand what other people feel and why they do what they do (empathy) that things that are beautiful get wasted and lost. I, myself, will nod dismiss GNU and promote it instead!
