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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups: alt.comp.os.windows-11,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is
 Worth Nothing
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2025 05:29:54 -0000 (UTC)
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On Wed, 1 Jan 2025 22:42:23 -0500, Paul wrote:

> I bet the US military version, doesn't have the "location tracker"
> turned on :-)

But how would they be sure? Looking at source code provides no guarantees 
that those binaries were actually built from that code. They would have to 
build it themselves to be sure. You can only do that with Free Software.