XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy   
   From: not@necessary.invalid   
      
   On Mon, 25 Aug 2025 02:35:12 -0400, Joel W. Crump wrote:   
      
   > On 8/25/2025 12:30 AM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro 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?   
   >   
   >   
   > Government *is* international - as is the online world.  The NSA and big   
   > tech are peers of other countries' related organizations.   
      
   The online world *seems* international because lots of people and   
   organizations realized that it is simply better to adopt the American   
   standards for a change (TCP / IP stack) than create their own one. But it   
   is nowhere near as *international* as people think. China is notorious for   
   not allowing non-native tech companies on their shores, except Apple and   
   Microsoft.   
      
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