Sunshine (she/her)M to Buy European@feddit.ukEnglish · 6 days agoYou Gotta Use The Right Desktop OSimagemessage-square68linkfedilinkarrow-up1420arrow-down111file-textcross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-square20nat@feddit.itlinkfedilinkarrow-up26arrow-down1·6 days agoFedora is a product of an US company
minus-squarewewbull@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·edit-26 days agoThe point is to stop sending money to the US, not to be religiously anti-american. Using Fedora doesn’t make any oligarch richer. The US trade deficit isn’t made smaller either. Plus the fedora community is global.
minus-squaredieTasse@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 days agoSame as not every American is bad, not every American product is bad. This one is free and open source, so its ok. And its competition to Microsoft.
minus-squareSunshine (she/her)OPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16arrow-down1·6 days agoThat’s true but at least you can review the code and they don’t collect data on you like microsoft does.
minus-square20nat@feddit.itlinkfedilinkarrow-up14·6 days agoYes it is miles better then windows, I even used it for a while, but we are in the Buy European sub.
minus-squaregruhuken@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·6 days agoOpen Source and free products aren’t counted in boycotts because the point of a boycott is to not financially support something
minus-square20nat@feddit.itlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·5 days agoThere are other ways to support, such as being the beta tester for RHEL.
minus-squaregruhuken@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·4 days agoFOSS still doesn’t contribute to the United States economy and afaik you don’t pay to be a beta tester?
Fedora is a product of an US company
The point is to stop sending money to the US, not to be religiously anti-american. Using Fedora doesn’t make any oligarch richer. The US trade deficit isn’t made smaller either.
Plus the fedora community is global.
Same as not every American is bad, not every American product is bad. This one is free and open source, so its ok. And its competition to Microsoft.
That’s true but at least you can review the code and they don’t collect data on you like microsoft does.
Yes it is miles better then windows, I even used it for a while, but we are in the Buy European sub.
Open Source and free products aren’t counted in boycotts because the point of a boycott is to not financially support something
There are other ways to support, such as being the beta tester for RHEL.
FOSS still doesn’t contribute to the United States economy and afaik you don’t pay to be a beta tester?