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Re:HP installs system-slowing spyware on its PCs by millstone on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @11:59AM (#15798975)
I don’t understand what closed source has to do with it. What’s to stop Google from adding this stuff in a ChromeOS update?
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Re:HP installs system-slowing spyware on its PCs by tree_of_item on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @12:13PM (#15799127)
ChromeOS is proprietary.

And what closed source has to do with it is this: if you try to do this stuff in free software, people can simply remove it and distribute the clean version.

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