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Richard Stallman wants you to know: GNU/Linux was always a political statement.
In other words, you don't have to choose! They're basically the same thing!
It's not even just "political", it is politics. Deciding to collaboratively make an operating system (infrastructure, practically) which is free for everyone and asking anyone using it to help out is doing politics, at least in a world where people are politically motivated to restrict people's ability to go and do that somehow.