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Pentagon Warns Microsoft: Company’s Use of China-Based Engineers Was a “Breach of Trust”
(www.propublica.org)
this post was submitted on 30 Aug 2025
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On the other hand, have you ever seen a government authored operating system?
No, and I'm sure the various OS's that have been made by Governments have their (sometimes severe) flaws. But it is a potential solution to government reliance on corporate technologies nevertheless.
And also community profits. But I don't see it happen because politicians are dumb. In my country (EU) they still use X and Facebook only to communicate on social media. Microsoft is also heavily embedded in all pores.
Hey, it is not an full OS but the French Gendarmerie is using their custom Ubuntu since the end of windows 7