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by jammygit
2716 days ago
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"Essentially, users would need to trust that the project isn't doing the tracking because it says it isn't." The cynic in me is recalling that red hat just got bought by IBM and IBM is in the news for tracking people in a weather app in a sneaky way I don't know any better though, maybe fedora is quite independent of red hat/IBM and its 100% legit to trust their promises. I'm not sure how it works tbh Edit: added quote from article |
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This is a nitpick, but Red Hat did not get bought by IBM. What happened was IBM announcing the intention to buy Red Hat.
It's maybe a subtle, but possibly important distinction. Red Hat is still its own independent entity until the deal goes through (which means IIRC passing the board's approval, SEC and likely other stuff). This is expected to happen in late 2019 I believe, but it might still fall through.
This doesn't absolutely dispel any possibility of IBM's influence, but it should be very low/zero until the merger actually goes through. But I also don't know how all this works.