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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

For example, a library in Vietnam wouldn't necessarily be dependent on an American software company for their day-to-day work.

A library in Vietnam isn't going to have their own kernel team, they'll just pay Redhat or similar. And when their distro inevitably releases a broken kernel they'll break everyone's system as well.

The problem isnt Microsoft, its that no one is doing QA anymore.