Lenovo Shipping Ubuntu Linux on 2019 ThinkPad

Re:Lenovo Shipping Ubuntu Linux on 2019 ThinkPad by TkTech on Friday June 21, 2019 @02:58AM (#20240492)

That comment refers to JingWang not the OS. If you were an individual forced to install it you are added to a registry. If you live in a particular city, it is mandatory. If you are part of a particular minority, it is mandatory. Refusing to install it or prove its installation if your national identity is in the registry is a crime and you wil be arrested.

Beijing is not Kashgar. Many Chinese will experience relative freedom and others live in city-sized prisons.

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Re:Lenovo Shipping Ubuntu Linux on 2019 ThinkPad by dis-sys on Friday June 21, 2019 @03:34AM (#20240643)

This article and thread is about pre-installed Linux on some recently announced laptops. Could you please stop trying to politicize everything in every possible way?

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Re:Lenovo Shipping Ubuntu Linux on 2019 ThinkPad by SmellyGeekBoy on Friday June 21, 2019 @04:12AM (#20240795)

Much as I also grow tired of the constant shoehorning of China into every single conversation here, in this instance Lenovo is a Chinese company so it's at least somewhat relevant.

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Re:Lenovo Shipping Ubuntu Linux on 2019 ThinkPad by baq on Friday June 21, 2019 @10:13AM (#20242649)

OTOH how is it possible to ignore politics if technology makes politics possible, with the earliest examples being fire and the wheel?

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