Re: [Trisquel-users] Privacy in Trisquel

[gnuser]

Well, it all depends on WHY one uses Trisquel. Some people actually want to  
follow the latest fashions and have social networking, apps integrated that  
know everything about them, all the whistles and bells, they just want to do  
that with free software. For those people there is nothing wrong with some  
spying (or logging as the article mentioned above calls it) as long as it's  
useful.
For me however (and aparently Dadix too) Trisquel is one step in the  
direction of a FREE operating system. You can't have freedom if you can't  
have freedom from surveilance, and one man's tool is another man's weapon.  
So, I use Trisquel because being only free software, there are less chances  
of backdoors being in place (windows and mac have those of course, and some  
linux distros might have too). Now, I don't think Trisquel has back doors,  
but it might have some libraries that I might prefer to remove to further  
protect myself. And being free software, it's my right to do so =)

I thank Dadix for providing the info that he did, it actually helped me. I am  
however unable to run MAT =(