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A comment on Edward Snowden calls for spyware trade ban amid Pegasus revelations. Parent comment

Re:Edward Snowden calls for spyware trade ban amid Pegasus r... by boomboomsubban on Monday July 19, 2021 @07:44PM (#27888556)
It resulted in a spyware/telemetry free fork. Which is how free software spyware will generally go.

>Curious what part of the above statement is unhelpful or inaccurate…

I have no idea how you think the incident played out. Your post is basically "something like that happened, there were results."

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Re:Edward Snowden calls for spyware trade ban amid Pegasus r... by blooalien on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @11:38AM (#27895056)
> It resulted in a spyware/telemetry free fork. Which is how free software spyware will generally go.

Pretty much exactly my thinking on the topic. It also resulted in them changing and/or clarifying some of the things they thought were the cause of the complaints. Still led to a fork anyhow.

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