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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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[–] 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.

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[–] 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.

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