Path: ...!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: alt.comp.os.windows-11,comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: My week with Linux: I'm dumping Windows for Ubuntu to see how it goes Date: 20 May 2025 19:39:21 GMT Lines: 15 Message-ID: References: <1008i5i$f02$2@dont-email.me> <100au4d$iunm$1@dont-email.me> <100gekb$1s2g2$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net UumuRpM5eYKo2/Sv1bVtxAZS+0VpyJoYjnK1YMsitXyz6EPY8P Cancel-Lock: sha1:40FQAHMa63gl1y3kQ3xbBpTcL94= sha256:Sb0lQR/8YHBQJqNTCdsra56nT6UHvl+2cDEdSndwEcw= User-Agent: Pan/0.160 (Toresk; ) Bytes: 1733 On Tue, 20 May 2025 08:49:26 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote: > That's the kind of policy which would have prevented people like Edward > Snowden from revealing what they did to the world. Additionally, Western > companies are constantly losing their intellectual property to Chinese > imitations. These imitations are usually produced using information that > was stolen by employees and sold to the Reds or reverse-engineered. It probably would not have slowed Snowden down. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permanent_Record_(autobiography) His autobiography is self-serving to some extent but it is interesting. He was surprised to discover he'd been given the keys to the kingdom as an outside contractor.