[josefx]

> I want Windows dead because it's a proprietary surveillance machine

I hope you are aware that anything Google touches is at least a hundred times worse in that regard?

> Android being built on tons of GPL software means they have to contribute changes back to the benefit of the FOSS ecosystem.

Android is built around a ton of proprietary Google technologies and services, the number of which keeps growing. Alternatives will have to be written without industry support since Google forces phone makers to only sell Android phones with full spyware suite active by default and running at 100%. Any phone maker that tries to provide an alternative to Googles services will be cut off immediately, leaving them with warehouses full of bricks. Google is the new Microsoft.

[Zamicol]

Sorry I don't mean to poke bears or aid trolls, but how so with "Google touches is at least a hundred times worse"?

[SmellyGeekBoy]

Surveillance is Google's entire business model, Microsoft just see it as a nice add-on.

[pm90]

They track absolutely everything they can.