I’m curious to hear thoughts on this. I agree for the most part, I just wish people would see the benefit of choice and be brave enough to try it out.

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    1 year ago

    Imagine a state driven open source distro like deepin in some years.

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      Highly probable. But considering Microsoft has been subsidized by the US government indirectly for decades I don’t see it being much different except that the GPL license hopefully will allow for the OS to become a common good.

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        1 year ago

        Uhm how is chinese state looking to make profit of Deepin?

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            MS has to make profit of Windows. China doesn’t or can’t if Deepin is opensource.

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              Microsoft is heavily subsidized through government contracts. Deepin has it’s paid support UOS alternative with extra services.