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5 days agoAlready a thing. We can choose between Ubuntu, who restrict your freedom and privacy in the Snap store, and have experimented with weird things like forward your desktop search to the internet or integrate Amazon into your desktop. Or you can pick a different distro. Some have telemetry, some ask you for your permission and even patch user software so it doesn’t send telemetry per default. Some were kinda illegal and distributed libcss2.
I feel “Free Software” is the closest we get. As that is associated with the Free Software movement and copyleft. In reality, we’re talking more about freedom of opportunity, though. We’re not really owed software that fits our use-case 100%, that’s not the kind of freedom we’re talking about.