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[โ€“] [email protected] 25 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Fedora is a product of an US company

[โ€“] [email protected] 20 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

The point is to stop sending money to the US, not to be religiously anti-american. Using Fedora doesn't make any oligarch richer. The US trade deficit isn't made smaller either.

Plus the fedora community is global.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Same as not every American is bad, not every American product is bad. This one is free and open source, so its ok. And its competition to Microsoft.

[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 5 days ago (1 children)

That's true but at least you can review the code and they don't collect data on you like microsoft does.

[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago

Yes it is miles better then windows, I even used it for a while, but we are in the Buy European sub.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Open Source and free products aren't counted in boycotts because the point of a boycott is to not financially support something

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

There are other ways to support, such as being the beta tester for RHEL.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago

FOSS still doesn't contribute to the United States economy and afaik you don't pay to be a beta tester?