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I explained in my second sentence.
"They are legally required to give Crowdstrike or anyone low level access to the OS."
If you install a buggy driver into Linux and it crashes, that's not a problem with the Linux kernel.
https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/linux-kernel-panic
I fully agree with you on that front, but ads have nothing to do with kernel access, so how is that relevant to their legal requirements?
I was explaining why everyone hates on Microsoft but the Crowdstrike crash had nothing to do with the reasons people hate MS.
Gotcha.