Please explain to me. I moved away from Big Tech and installed - even on my old MacBook Pro 2015 - Linux Mint. I use open source software and my social media is on Fedivers. I tought I was “safe” by using Linux, but the Linux Foundation is sponsord by a lot of money by Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, Google, etc… etc… the exact companies I try to take some distance off. Can somebody please explain me if Linux is “sold” to US Big Tech now?

  • artyom@piefed.social
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    12 hours ago

    All of those companies use servers. And all of those servers run Linux. Linux is the backbone of the web.

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      That’s what I was thinking. Microsoft and Mac can’t really perform in a lot of data center applications or really anything real time. And if they can, they don’t seem to play nicely with everything else. My personal favorite is when they are mixed in Sim labs for the same project. I still have not seen that stupid people ever learn to not do that.