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GNU/Linux is Becoming More Mainstream, But That Can Lead to Further Restrictions Inside GNU/Linux
GNU/Linux should be about users' freedom, not back doors and slop plagiarism
Earlier today in the sister site I mentioned that many people nowadays work with GNU/Linux. "For me," I said, "GNU/Linux has worked for almost three decades. It helps me do many things colleagues could not." "The last sentence there should be a whole new post," a reader has since then said. "Using Microsoft is like trying to tie your shoes while wearing mittens in the dark It's just not set up, especially for development. For development, GNU/Linux itself is an IDE if used with skill."
"Related to the post [from] this morning," the reader has said, there are reports like this one about Epic targetting GNU/Linux (lots more collected in one long page). "The big danger with 'games' in the abstract is that they have been used as a vehicle for DRM in the kernel under the guise of 'anti-cheat' technology. (c.f. TPM and Restricted Boot, the latter pushed by Microsoft via the puppy breaker...)"
UEFI "Restricted Boot" offers the exact opposite of security and as we noted yesterday, "GeForce NOW has made GNU/Linux a first-class citizen and after lots of scoffing and dissing Epic says it'll do the same... "soon"."
The general consensus is that GNU/Linux is gaining, but will it usher in Software Freedom or just more DRM? If many hands make light work and enough people campaign for Software Freedom, then we can change the companies, not let those companies change us. █
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