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   Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOlivei to Joel W. Crump   
   Re: I may have underestimated Microsoft   
   25 Aug 25 04:30:20   
   
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   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Sun, 24 Aug 2025 23:50:10 -0400, Joel W. Crump wrote:   
      
   > ... the national-security agency has eyes on online life ...   
      
   Didn’t stop them contributing the SELinux source to the Linux kernel, did   
   it?   
      
   > GNU/Linux might be a free OS but the distros are going to have   
   > relationships with government/industry.   
      
   Remember that most of these distros are maintained by an international   
   bunch. Which “government/industry” do you think they have    
   relationships”   
   with?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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