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Does the contributor of Canonical mentioned consider the fair difference between the absence of any telemetry on actual Linux desktop people just opt-out initially, and the forced/hidden telemetry on Windows?
How is that even possible to compare these numbers and state anything aloud like this, if we have literally no idea how many genuine Ubuntu setups are there with absolutely no Microsoft involved?
Sorry, but I believe the blog post author's statements regarding "statistics" are not fair, inaccurate, and simply invalid.
The "AI" part is a literal nonsense, bigotry, and just awful, too.
The author should rather check the following stance, and reconsider his history and life decisions, I believe:
Ew, you made me actually read the article.
And there it is, right in the opening sentence: the bullshit trying to make windows look good somehow. Feels like entrapment. like how Google‘s AI answers are stealing actual click-throughs for the websites that are generating the answers people are really looking for.
Well money would be a huge motivator on its own. Unless his idea of motivation is to bring out the whips..