▲ 361 ▼ After Europe ditched Windows, China follows suit with its own home-grown Linux distros (www.xda-developers.com) submitted 2 days ago* by inari@piefed.zip to c/linux@lemmy.world 69 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] steelplatedmech@piefed.ca 10 points 2 days 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] morto@piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago FOSS in general took a very long time to be embraced by china, which feels weird permalink fedilink source parent [–] KssioAug@piefed.zip 9 points 2 days ago (1 child) 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] steelplatedmech@piefed.ca 2 points 1 day 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. permalink fedilink source parent [–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 1 point 1 day ago They are the same way the U.S. government is. Windows isn't used for shit that's actually important in either government. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] morto@piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago FOSS in general took a very long time to be embraced by china, which feels weird permalink fedilink source parent
[–] KssioAug@piefed.zip 9 points 2 days ago (1 child) 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] steelplatedmech@piefed.ca 2 points 1 day 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] steelplatedmech@piefed.ca 2 points 1 day 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 1 point 1 day ago They are the same way the U.S. government is. Windows isn't used for shit that's actually important in either government. permalink fedilink source parent