Do linux users have wives?

The word "free" does not refer to price; it refers to freedom.
The freedom to use your wife as you wish, for any purpose.
The freedom to study how your wife works, and change her so she works for you as you wish, instead of her controlling you.
The freedom to redistribute your wife to your neighbor.
The freedom to distribute your modified wife to others. By doing this you can give the whole community a chance to benefit from your changed wife.
- This is pretty hot.
- The freedom to distribute your modified wife to others. By doing this you can give the whole community a chance to benefit from your changed wife.
  That's love
- Now I can tell people I strive to be FOSS rather tham say I'm into bimbofication.
- Seems like what Dominique Pelicot considered his wife to be. Not an example I am willing to follow, I'll tell you that.
  
  You have to keep in mind that your wife is her own main maintainer and can decide whether to merge your changes.
  You can fork her to obtain someone you have greater influence over but that's a big responsibility and not everything you want to do with your fork may be advisable from a legal or moral standpoint.
- Not your wife's freedom?
  
  She does the PR reviews and makes the ultimate decision to merge the changes or not.
- This is why you don't have a wife lol.

I am the wife.
Unrelated, why aren't there more women in Linux spaces? We'll never get to the bottom of it I fear. I haven't read the comments in this thread yet, I'm sure they're all completely uncontroversial.
- heteronormative assumptions
  You could still have a wife yourself, with whichever licensing agreement the two of you negotiate.
  
  oh! it's you!
  The person on reddit that starts all comments with "well actually,"
  Can I have an autograph?
  
  I have done research into this protocol.
- I am the wife.
  So are you or your wife free and open source?
- A fellow linux girl!!! It's nice to not feel so alonee
- because linux users are tech oriented, the market is barely touched by linux, and tech oriented people are disproportunately male/not cisgender women.
  Hannah Montana Linux can only do so much /s
  edit : added "not cisgender women." I really don't want to start a thing about this statement, it's to align with the pendant that replied to this post.
  
  You mean to tell me https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/c/unixsocks aren't women? Fooled by Rule 37 again.
- We need more information to reach people. So far I've only seen people be into Linux when they have less social life growing up so they spend time online (not in tiktoks or such like now).
  Since most people hearing about Linux from class or other people only hear about the bad aspects or how hard it is if they even hear about it. When I came to US university, I was so surprised noone knew about linux or cared enough except handful of people. And most people did it for work (super computer people, grad students) that didn't like it and express their opinions openly.
- maybe not cis women.
- there aren't more women in linux spaces because of The Creature
  
  what is the creature? I don't follow.
- looks at comment section yep you're right, ew
- Are you talking about irl Linux spaces? It that a thing? If not, how do you know there aren't women in online Linux spaces? Fwiw I'm afab nb
  
  IRL Linux spaces are a thing, just look for a local keep meetup or something, they're everywhere.

Hold on, bout to fork OPs wife
- That's so uncool. They should be sitting next to that OP so they can share in the humor.
  Sad 😔
  
  I committed
  
  Didn't she get them fired for that?
- In chess, right?
  Right?

Um sure? As long as she is up for it. I love her, I don't own her. Keep it safe, sane, and consensual, then who am I to argue.
- As long as she is up for it.
  That would be DRM you corpo shill!
- But she does own you
  
  Nah bro
  
  Female bad

Sure, here's her genome. Feel free to compile one yourself.

Windows users when I ask them if they debloat their girlfriends before using them.

You can’t see her because she’s decentralized
…I’m not crying
- I don't have the actual hardware, it's all virtual and she runs in my head
  
  I just run docker containers for the components I need, without the overhead for the whole system.
- I just found out she federated with threats :(

file not found

I don't own my wife.
- You can have the code to my kernel, sure. You don't get a login on my machine, though, and you're definitely not on the sudoers list.

Honestly, I'd love a FOSSWIFE.
- New type of hotwife just dropped

- You should install OpenWRT then
  
  OpenWRT still relies on proprietary firmware for WiFi to work

You must mean WiFi.

When someone gives you that emotionless stare, it means not only is you comment not funny, it's not really socially acceptable.
Linux users are not all male, or all straight, or single. Outside of incel groups, most groups aren't (probably even they have members who secretly aren't!) 😃
- Yeah, as a married lesbian linux user the joke is gross and reminds me why so often tech related spaces are so male dominated
  
  Which sucks, because tech needs women. Badly.
  
  sorry you have to deal with that. fwiw i cringe when that happens.

Why yes, I 3D printed her parts myself.

Counter question: Is your wife software?
- I feel with the rise of AI you're going to get a lot of yes to this question
  
  trying to get any gf
  i have an old xt lying around and a floppy with a copy of 079 in it what could go wrong
- we're all software running on wetware in a meatware shell
  
  Ok Choom.
  
  in my case its just tupperware
- Maybe?

Would I have to say yes if I let my wife roam cage free?
- Youre telling me people dont keep their wives in cages?
  
  I only keep some of my wives in cages, the rest are free range
  
  That's just ridiculous

Didn't get there, couldn't figure out the documentation.
- & touch woman
  cannot touch 'woman': Permission denied
  
  Sudo touch woman
  
  mount woman
- me: hmm ima try batcj
  
  C:\>woman.hlp Error opening file "WOMAN.HLP". Abort, Retry, Fail?
  uh basic?
  
  LOAD MANPAGEWOMAN ERROR: CAN'T CONTINUE
  js??
  
  >getHelp.woman() SyntaxError: Invalid arguments
  [some other language]???
  
  %>FunctionToTryGettingHelpOnWomen() Error
  COME ON THERES GOTTA BE SOMETHI-- Error: Out of Memory

Thier wife =/= software

My wife, like my WiFi, is a mesh.
- Insecure?
  
  Being freely used by all of my neighbors
  
  We prefer the term "public"

does a fleshlight count?
- If you're married to it then i guess it counts
  
  i was joking. im not married to anything.

OPs (imaginary or AI) wife must come with a lot of proprietary bloat

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're refering to as Wife, is in fact, GNU/Wife, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Wife.

var lock

Hey, take my wife for example. No, really, please! I'm begging.

me when i try even coming close yo somone the opposite sex irl: "manpage nonexistent and this situation is unknown WHAT DO I DO IT DOES NOT COMPUTE"
(back wgen my daily driver was dos (yes, in the 21st centory), back when it was windows and now that its linux...yeahhh...even if im a total NOOB at it i have the social skills of someone who spenda all day in the tty...maybe doing tbat but cmd in windows helped a bit xd)

That robot looks uncannily like Mark Zuckerberg.