As a thought experiment you can compare distributions that make the same claims. This is not an attempt to push Slackware, you can run the same question by any other distro.
Both Slackware and PureOS make the same claim: The Distribution is FOSS, making it transparent and available to the professional community for review and audit. How is this transparency implemented? For PureOS, they provide this link to view their source code: http://repo.pureos.net/pureos/pool/main/ For Slackware, this is the link to the source code: https://mirrors.slackware.com/slackware/slackware64-14.2/source/ So the question is this: Of these 2 distributions, which provides provides better transparency? On Thu, Jan 9, 2020 at 12:57 AM Ben Koenig <[email protected]> wrote: > It's always an opt-in type of feature. I can't recall a specific piece of > software that gathered these metrics without asking first. it's usually > something along the lines of "FYI this is something we will do, unless you > intentionally click the button below that says no" during the installation > phase or first run. Even microsoft asks you in a way that is very clear and > obvious. > > But again, it's all about misdirection. What they say is not what they do. > To be fair, I look at the Purism website and I see a marketing team that is > making the same promises everyone else already did. Google said "don't be > evil" and then they started doing evil things. Facebook said this was a > such great way to stay in touch with friends and family, then allowed > russia to impersonate american citizens on their platform. Purism says they > actually care even though everyone else doesn't... um... ok? Prove it. > > I mean, this could just be an oversight on their part, but when you say > you are releasing the source for your software, you better put a god damn > link or contact on that same page. They talk about binary blobs literally > and claim that they are different and then proceed to just ramble for > another 4 paragraphs. No links? Contact? What if I finish reading that page > and I'm like, yeah, lets read that source code! > > Um... where is the source code? > > > > On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 10:06 PM Mike C. <[email protected]> wrote: > >> PureOS' claim" >> >> "PureOS is in complete compliance with FSF’s free distribution guidelines >> <https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html> >> and >> does not ship proprietary software or blobs <https://puri.sm/learn/blobs/ >> >." >> >> FSF guidelines refer to malware: >> "No Malware >> >> The distro must contain no DRM, no back doors, and no spyware." >> >> I can't seem to find anything about behaviourial data collection in PureOS >> or The FSF docs. >> >> There does seem to be some pretty strong sentiment withing the FOSS >> community that any such functionality should only be by "opt-in". >> _______________________________________________ >> PLUG mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug >> > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
