Re: Why Debian

[Randy Edwards <redwards@golgotha.net>]

On Monday, November 18, 2013 09:04:12 PM Tamer Higazi wrote:
> 1. Because I don't like a commercial sponsored operating system.
> How knows on what kind of stupid idea they come to collect data.

   To me, this is a point that is not emphasized enough.

   With the NSA revelations that Microsoft, Apple, et al, have cooperated on 
eviscerating their encryption and are working with the US gov't to undermine 
their own customers/users, Debian and the free software warld should be 
highlighting this key difference in free software.


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