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Re:Is Microsoft boiling the users to death, by not boiling t... by maxander on Saturday March 18, 2017 @09:17PM (#13904550)
> And what part of Linux makes me the product?

As long as there's no provider whose product you could be, perhaps, but be careful even with Linux- awhile back, Canonical added a feature to Ubuntu where the user's use of the dashboard search function was reported back to the company [1]. That got taken out after a mass uproar, but we now know that Canonical wants to be just as creepy as MS.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/ubuntu-spyware.en.html

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Re:Is Microsoft boiling the users to death, by not boiling t... by jasonkostempski on Saturday March 18, 2017 @09:53PM (#13904704)
That was a big one. Luckily free software pretty much guarantees no one is going to get away with trying such a thing (unless just about everyone in the world looses sight of the main goal), it's too easy to switch. During that fiasco, I was on Arch and/or Trisquel so it didn't phase me much, currently on Xubuntu though.
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