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To: Bob434

Why would Linux have spyware? They are not a corporate product, so there is nowhere to send the data to.

In any case, users could just remove the spyware and recompile the operating system. That is what Linux is, user-controlled.


30 posted on 03/30/2016 10:16:17 AM PDT by proxy_user
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To: proxy_user

[[Why would Linux have spyware? They are not a corporate product, so there is nowhere to send the data to.]]

I don’t know, liek i said, I’m not up aon all this= it’s just what I’ve run across online- and don’t know if there is any truth to it- it does appear that people are upset with hte whole ‘canonical’ issue with ubuntu- whatever that means-

[[In any case, users could just remove the spyware and recompile the operating system. That is what Linux is, user-controlled.]]

True but hte majority of us don’t really know what we’re doing- we’re MS dummies after all lol


33 posted on 03/30/2016 10:22:05 AM PDT by Bob434
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