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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.comp.os.windows-11
Subject: Re: My week with Linux: I'm dumping Windows for Ubuntu to see how it
 goes
Date: Thu, 22 May 2025 01:01:53 -0000 (UTC)
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On Wed, 21 May 2025 09:46:49 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:

> On 2025-05-20 23:27, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 20 May 2025 08:57:24 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:
>> 
>>> You might want to read up on how Firefox has become spyware over the
>>> last few years.
>> 
>> Somehow I don’t think that kind of thing gets past the distro
>> maintainers ...
> 
> Which is a hilarious thing to say since we know that the "many eyes" 
> don't actually look at the code to see what's in it.

Of course they do. That’s why we have de-Googled builds of Chromium, for 
example. And why some upstream developers complain about the maintainers 
of Debian and other distros, for the patches they make to their code.