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After Europe ditched Windows, China follows suit with its own home-grown Linux distros
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Yes, but what you say is infiltrating into the Kernel. That can always happen and they surely try and tried it before too. But in this topic here, we are talking about distributions that anyone create without being involved in Linux. And its not only a thing with China, I expect in the future more distributions from governments all around the world. And to me, that's a good thing, for them and for us, just not for Microsoft and the US government (because they have access to everything Microsoft saves).
I get what you're saying. Wide adoption is going to change a lot of things for the better and the worse. I imagine the foundation of Linux and FOSS will be challenged as more power and money flows into the project and of course more potential for espionage or other bad actors. Simultaneously I can't deny that more support for enterprise software will come and ultimately the potential for an integrated OS across devices like an actually viable Linux phone / tablet OS that could rival android and iOS. Reality is complex and it's rare that things are absolutely one way or the other. I think many Linux users have gotten use to being in a niche and not needing anti virus software or other such protections. That will most definitely change.