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Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome (arstechnica.com)
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[–] 73 points 2 years ago (3 children)

For people who roll their eyes when someone mentions Linux and all of the free and open source projects adjacent to it (including Firefox!), this is exactly why many people value those things. We actually can have freedom in computing and it's worth pushing for. We don't have to roll over simply accept what Google, Microsoft and Apple want.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    But there are a few specific hardware configurations and specialized jobs that Linux doesn't work for, therefore nobody should use it!

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    My workplace is transitioning a bunch of their data and processing to the cloud. When I look at what software makes the cloud work, there is soooo much open source software there. Big business is quite comfortable with FOSS

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Why not be happy both OS options exist? Both have a place and a use and in various ways an ease of use

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    That's the point. We want options for OSs to exist, instead of one company monopolizing the entire market.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    Linux with 100% market share can’t monopolize the entire market because it doesn’t have a centralized distro

    You see similar to Google with Redhat/Canonical. If everyone was with them then it would be a problem

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Linux with 100% marketshare means nothing.

    GPL is designed to protect developer rights, not user rights.

    If google packaged your linux distro and sold it through the play store bundled with their own apps and sandboxed everything and called it chromeOS, your rights would not be any better protected.

    Security and privacy involves users making informed choices to protect themselves, full stop.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    Any of thousands of people can say this but i don't see it in the comments below so: I've been using a Linux Mint / Windows dual boot system for over 10 years and love it. I think a lot of people see Linux as highly technical, but versions like Mint and Ubuntu are more carefree than Windows nowadays.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Sure but Google also uses tons of open source - android is built on the linux kernel, and even chrome is or is based on open source:

    https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src

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