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[–] kablez@lemmy.world 98 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Meanwhile the Chinese government have their own Linux variant Kylin which is developed as part of a national resilience and strategic initiative. It's wild to me that in this day and age few governments will spend even $100,000 on open source expertise but they'll throw billions at idiots like Microsoft because some politician was wined and dined by their sales people. If more people knew how broken the procurement system was and how their tax dollars were wasted on corporate welfare they would riot.

[–] gurty@lemmy.world 35 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Its way too tin-foil-hat of me to bring up how Bill Gates was in bed with the shadiest world leaders and how that might influence these sort of decisions, right? I’m definitely just being a conspiracy theorist here.

[–] redsand 8 points 2 days ago

No he was in bed some russian women and almost certainly under age girls with Epstein, it is after all, why he got divorced.

But yes, NSA_KEY, skype, bitlocker, etc...

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 0 points 2 days ago

You are because it's on a personal device.

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 days ago

Didn't they skin it to look a lot like Windows?