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GNU/Linux is Being Eaten Alive by Large Corporations With Their Agenda

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Roy Schestowitz
Apr 17, 2019

A sort of corporate takeover, or moneyed interests at the expense of our freedom, can be seen as a ‘soft coup’ whose eventual outcome would involve all or most servers in ‘the cloud’ (surveillance with patent tax as part of the rental fees) and almost no laptops/desktops which aren’t remotely controlled (and limit what’s run on them, using something like UEFI ‘secure boot’)

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Roy Schestowitz

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