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But then the government is dependent on this private company again. The idea of an own operating system distribution is, to have the control and not being dependent (as far as a company goes). So its not odd at all. In fact, I am shocked that most governments in the world don't have their own distribution. It just makes sense.
That also means a specific distribution to learn and count on across all governmental institution across all parts. They can integrate any feature, application and configure it for the EU in a government. Is there such a distribution that exists doing exactly that? Probably not. And creating a distribution does not mean they develop everything from scratch, so its not like impossible to workout.
If private companies like Steam can do it, then a government should be able too.
Um, yes. It is odd, and you get some things ass backward:
To my knowledge Linux is community driven. I can only assume that's Murena and /e/OS you're talking about, then? In which case, that was my point.
Yeah, makes sense to North Korea, too. I'm not sure they're an example to follow, though.
To be clear, nation states controlling the tools that their employees and, potentially, wider population communicate and access information is a dystopian vision, and I cannot agree with that point at all.
Wow, what a way to take the most extreme POV possible on an issue.
Absolutely not. Somebody may still wade into the discussion and Godwin themselves.