From one walled garden to another.
tux0r
joined 9 months ago
A US product run by a couple of billionaires now looks a bit more like another US product run by a billionaire. Yeah well...
Why does that website use React by Facebook?
Honestly, the EU seems to be not the best place to write operating systems.
The most actively developed version of Plan 9, 9front, is from Germany, but that's not what most people want to use, I guess. Best I can do is non-American (OpenBSD). I'm open for ideas myself though!
What about OpenSUSE, Ubuntu etc? Both European based firms.
Canonical (based in London) is not really "from the EU" anymore. ;-) No, I know what you mean...
However: Yes, those are European Linux distributors. They distribute an U.S. operating system kernel together with an U.S. userland (GNU), an U.S. init system (systemd), several U.S. desktops (most commonly, Gnome, although KDE is German, at least)...
If you get your Windows installation from an European distributor, is it a European product?
considering their (...) contributor network.
Microsoft has employees in Europe. Does that count? If it doesn't, why does it count for Linux?
Still, it's probably off-topic in the "buy from EU" community. No EU products are involved here.
I honestly don't know (I usually hand-wire my frontends). Sorry.
Linux is - legally - a U.S. product, backed by a U.S. Foundation, led by a U.S. citizen. Just saying.
Oder man installiert sich einfach OpenBSD und nutzt das Gerät weiterhin auch auf Plattformen, die Linux seit Jahren ohne technische Notwendigkeit aus dem Support geschmissen hat. Oder will man sich echt von Linus Torvalds vorschreiben lassen, ab wann man neue Geräte zu kaufen und seine alten wegzuschmeißen hat?
It is incredibly funny to read that website's source code:
* @license React
* react.production.js
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* Copyright (c) Meta Platforms, Inc. and affiliates.
Worst boycott ever.
FYI, the Linux trademark, the Linux Foundation and Linus Torvalds are U.S.-based.
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