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Now that's rich. Are you indirectly telling us that Arch Linux and NixOS are spyware?


Ubuntu isn’t too big to target, if anything, its dominance makes it the obvious target. When you look at the trajectory over the years and some of Canonical’s decisions, it’s hard not to raise an eyebrow. Major distros like Ubuntu and Fedora didn’t scale globally without taking big tech money and money rarely comes with no strings attached. At some point, players like Microsoft are going to expect a return on that investment.




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