A zealous Tuxist, slighted by the insolence toward their beliefs but bitterly satisfied by the backpeddling was quoted as saying,

>Basically yea, but it's nice to know they'll keep their opinions to themselves from now on.

I use Arch (Manjaro cough) btw. I practically use Linux exclusively. But stuff like this is kind of funny. We live in a strange (dark?) time with respect to the OS ecosystem. This is an artifact of it.

The main OS is a bloated, closed, insecure, arguably hostile one, while the open, free one enjoys a kind of ethereal salience (both pragmatic and ideological) in the hearts, minds, and practice of technologists. That gives the open one a political protection completely disproportionate with its tiny consumer base and economic relevance to consumer-facing capitalists (who drive the entire technology sector).