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Re:Red Hat Goes Full IBM and Says Farewell to CentOS by jancsika on Saturday December 12, 2020 @03:13PM (#25401250)
> The first reply I got was something about the drama with some dude named Phil.

At least for Windows, can't you just quickly compare the ethical universes? I'm assuming that Phil didn't embrace-extend-extinguish other distros, Phil didn't secretly change Skype to break the encryption for LE, and Phil didn't upgrade the distro to do constant, inescapable telemetry and update arbitrarily downloading Gigs of data such that it interrupted a user's live broadcast.

In other words, if your decision is between Phil's distro and Windows, Phil's distro wins so it's the end of the story. And if the HN trolls you're responding to aren't claiming a 1:1 feature correspondence with "ethical" distro vs. Manjaro, who cares?

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Re:Red Hat Goes Full IBM and Says Farewell to CentOS by a1369209993 on Saturday December 12, 2020 @05:16PM (#25402272)
> In other words, if your decision is between Phil's distro and Windows, Phil's distro wins so it's the end of the story.

As the saying goes, Linux is like democracy: it's the second worst (widely-used) system ever, because all of the others are tied for first.

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