-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 8/26/20 3:07 AM, 54th Parallel wrote: > the wider point I want to make is that people jump on Chrome OS > simply for being an OS by Google.
Well, that is a bit understandable. Google earns almost all their money by selling user data / presenting advertisements. They dominate the web and push their ideas through Chrome and Android in a way Microsoft could have only dreamed of. Even if the engineers working on their products have good motivations, as a publicly traded corporation Google's goals are ultimately maximizing "shareholder value"... which you can see by them making compromises for suppressive states (China et al). The same is true for any corporation including Apple. > Chrome OS is cheap and sufficient enough for this particular set of > low-stake needs I have. That's perfectly fine. None of the above is a criticism of your decision to use anything. I have a Windows 7 qube (to run some business software in isolation) and my wife uses a Mac because that's the best compromise (Qubes in it's current form would be too much hassle for her). What I want to provide is an explanation why people in this forum -- who care a lot about both security and privacy -- have a particular dislike for surveillance capitalistic superstars like Google, Microsoft and Facebook. The basic (lack of) trust argument can be made about all non-open technology. > That said, I bought two new laptops just for Qubes and have sunk > months into understanding it, so I'm not shilling for Chrome OS > here. Understood. I didn't mean to imply otherwise. /Sven - -- public key: https://www.svensemmler.org/0x8F541FB6.asc fingerprint: D7CA F2DB 658D 89BC 08D6 A7AA DA6E 167B 8F54 1FB6 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCgAdFiEE18ry22WNibwI1qeq2m4We49UH7YFAl9Ghx8ACgkQ2m4We49U H7bJZRAAxO3NtPCGs3SXiJsRftOEVzEWuamfhWXNqt8rcrWVA2RjI9zMyWiTbuB7 qA+JT28gWA3TLOSB/7Wo4w3i00zIn3fFNLzZsGVoudD313fcD/wGalghwsM38+0H 9agwFhSgIBSyZo4TLl8C6VyUHeIg4XeHY1ewdsbST3KV9IMI0+l2y+wkgHwSAdwx aoszb+uLekxqRSnavDlPb/jsENW+afch1tDlSceUwpGwTmMkQw+UJXmeGg7s093r 73T3ypJBUNIjexB63gRut53xUH9s1BUG2BnPTWKIpzkYDpybxYd6cNvIvFP1jayc daVrj2xhtZeumvPR7Yxl790yg1HFRA3nT0wsfcrLQFBPXgBghLRvPIRPJhoDhPsU p8AxBrDLO6OCzUDFzEDejoD1VU5hmhpEjuoroEAjfj1974FHKNgtfdAaLpZlh0Nd OIEmKshtQle1alwUD9rxT1w+dE8njzh3HFVi2z2+kLLRFAZgjLVMQNXYkIozkAud NqfsxjeWc/51bMBnhjsKWuD1yBc7vJK03m49ZgtbfG/3eeXAYEaTnlP5+SgeM9O+ Tday1lHnzCImdrxENuFNwU7XXpDehVkiE7cxcggCD1gpTFlOSqIDh7ibO0tuJLZD 3yDJ9pFzV40ZS4O0PWx0uAVsyJZKzp2ugBZ5SRhq66yhXeZEo3E= =ilFv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/e775f2bc-7269-5d02-84ef-f555a2aef69e%40SvenSemmler.org.
