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   From: crude@sausa.ge   
      
   On 2025-08-25 4:53 a.m., Not Necessary wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   And China is already working on their own non-Linux-based operating   
   system to replace Windows in their country. It's called HarmonyOS.   
      
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