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After Europe ditched Windows, China follows suit with its own home-grown Linux distros (www.xda-developers.com)
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[–] ViatorOmnium@piefed.social 34 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Windows is very cheap if you don't pay for it, and all the backdoors are a feature for the powers that be.

[–] steelplatedmech@piefed.ca 10 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Surely China can't be fine with the US poking around their government computers? Or are they?

I don't understand how another country can use another hostile country's closed operating system for sensitive material.

[–] KssioAug@piefed.zip 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I would guess that Microsoft has to comply to Chinese privacy and data laws, AND that China's firewall also might block a lot of the telemetry.

I agree nonetheless. They should be using Linux a long time ago.

[–] steelplatedmech@piefed.ca 2 points 2 months ago

I don't think China would be naive to think a US company would actually comply. Even regular people don't believe claims of respecting privacy and totally not spying on you assurances.

[–] morto@piefed.social 4 points 2 months ago

FOSS in general took a very long time to be embraced by china, which feels weird

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 1 points 2 months ago

They are the same way the U.S. government is. Windows isn't used for shit that's actually important in either government.