Michael should be getting royalties
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Red hat may be a contributor to the kernel but development is open source. See the difference between American mega corp with closed source software vs red hat contributing to the Linux kernel?
My network firewall blocks thousands of Microsoft tracking attempts per hour in my home network. My linux machine has zero packets blocked. How is this the same?
I guess you claim it's the same because you don't understand the difference, or we are talking about something else being the same, like both have desktop environments....
One is hostile against the user privacy and the other is not. They are very different. Systemd is a boot system and it's great. It doesn't call home.