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if you think that's insane, you should see LibreJS.
Well, it is basically LibreJS logic applied to an entire distro, like your typical FSF-approved distro. It's a distro by free software extremists for free software extremists and no one else. It's is completely impractical for actual use. But really it's worse than the average FSF-approved distro. It takes things several steps further by removing many things that are 100% free software, but just subjectively disliked by the maintainers, including even the Linux-libre kernel, as the project is in the process of moving to an OpenBSD base. The OpenBSD people naturally want nothing to do with them, so I'm looking forward to seeing that play out.