The Gnu is imho a nice animal.
A gnice animal, surely? Now rebranded to aGNUmal, (lack-of-© released under GNU licence, please see pages 872-2,429 for a brief summary) Richard Stallman.
Er anyway. Yeah, I think the restrictive GPL licence and Stallman's eternal quest for not just recognition but seemingly to be recognised as being the predominant contributor even when he isn't has really put me off a lot of GNU stuff. And as mentioned, their dogmatic attitude in other areas too, e.g. Thou Shalt Use Info (complete with emacs-style interface) instead of the established man pages, their bizarre choice of indentation and so on and so on. Where the manual is concerned, sometimes I find Unix's collection of exceedingly long pages to be unhelpful but if they're going to reinvent it, at least use as a basis something that actually works nicely such as VMS's help system.
As for source freedom, I want it when I want it, but that's increasingly theoretical rather than practical nowadays as way too much of it is a badly written tangle or a superset of that style of coding, i.e. C++. Not like the Good Old Days where Steve Bourne decided to write his eponymous shell by creating a bunch of #defines so that he could write Algol (or BCPL or whatevs) in C.
Re Elon Musk: noooo. D: I suppose I'd file him alongside Teh Zuck in that he's some obnoxious ageing rich kid who got lucky rather than being any sort of true visionary. I suppose it's the way of the world though, they're venerated, alongside Jobbies and Gates, a nastier shade of businessman you'll seldom find but he's absolutely succeeded in pulling the wool over people's eyes with his self-promotion foundation. The actual visionaries and geniuses tend to be a lot less well known, to use Jobbies as an example: nobody remembers that Dennis Ritchie died around the same time but his legacy is much more important. He was a genuinely nice guy too.
Er, where were we? Oh yeah, OpenBSD. Periodically I'm tempted because I like the idea of high security... in theory. In practice it's a pain in the arse unless you have a genuine need so it'd be much the same as using FreeBSD except more painful. I'm 52, I think my days of self-inflicted pain need to be in the past. I mean unless it's a curry and cider bender or something. Hence Gentoo going the same way: the purist in me likes it but the rest of me gets a headache.
AIX: never had the pleasure. I tried to get the mainframe guys at work to give me a VM account so I could play around and cause chaos in the privacy of my own system, but they just said "so how much is it worth to your manager?" Too much, apparently, as nice a guy as he was. I got free access once I worked at DEC because, yes,
of course they'd bought a big mainframe from their main rival and made it available for everyone to play with, but by that time AIX had stopped being a thing on System/3X0.