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‘If it’s made in the US, I don’t buy it’: Canadians on boycotting Trump’s America
(www.theguardian.com)
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It sucks that it took Trump's shenanigans to do this, but Canada is a big place and should be reasonably self-sufficient. Someone else already said tech is going to be hard to source. I thought I heard that Canada was dealing with China for some tech, so you could build a computer and put Linux on it. While the Linux distro might be built by an American or a European, it's not sold for profit, so you'd just be using it. If there's a Canadian distro, I don't know. Sorry, I'm a Mac user and quite happy with my Macs. But if I were forced to use an Intel/AMD machine, I would 100% be a Linux user. I don't care for Microsoft at all (except for gaming, they're the slightly lesser evil between them and Sony).
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't remember Microsoft giving Trump chunks of gold as a gift and flowing a ton of money his way like Apple has. Apple has been pretty blatant with their Trump bribes.
Yeah, Tim Cook has made a lot of questionable choices over the last year or two. It's speculated that they are necessary for Apple and he's just taking the heat so the next guy, John Ternus, looks better. Ternus takes over as CEO on 1 September. Tuesday.
Doesn't excuse much. Meanwhile insert whataboutism with Microsoft and Google here (I mean really, no one is good here).
OpenBSD is Canadian, but it also isn't Linux.
Quite a bit to choose from: Arch is Canadian, and two very nice and user-friendly derivatives are Dutch and German, respectively: EndeavourOS and Cachy. Debian is “global” - no headquarters, with contributors from all around the world. Ubuntu is backed by British-based company. OpenSuSE is German, with Swedish financial backing.
I think the takeaway here is that Linux isn't the work of just one person, even Linus Torvalds. So to expect an entirely Canadian Linux isn't really the goal — it should be enough that Canadians are working on Linux, it's being contributed to by lots of people.
I'm sorry, I don't mean to move goalposts or seem like I'm pulling the football out from Charlie Brown's kick... I suppose I was wrong to ask after a "Canadian Linux" in the first place, when the point of Linux is international collaboration without a mega corp in any one region profiting. Though, some companies do profit from Linux (e.g. Red Hat, I think that's American), the end-user doesn't pay for it.
Having a huge variety of distributions does allow you to be more selective though, based on whatever criteria is important to you. Re: RedHat - they are now an IBM subsidiary, so yeah- rather US-based.