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If you use Raspberry Pi OS, you are trusting that we make good decisions about who to trust. In this case, to support our goal of delivering a better experience to our users, we have made the decision to trust Microsoft.
Yet another reason to ignore these proprietary firmware loaded (Broadcom based) devices.
Pity about all this, I had some respect for what the RPi was able to bring to the table.
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...In principle Microsoft could add packages to their repository which override packages in our repository. While it is unthinkable that Microsoft would do this deliberately or maliciously...
I find it entirely thinkable.
Given past behaviour, I think trusting microsoft is being unrealistically optimistic.
What I do not like about them is their total arrogance. They think they have the right to do any damn thing they want to your computer. Well it is mine and I get to decide once notified of a change if I want it to happened. Them scumbags updated my firmware without even a by your leave. Want a change log to find out what is happening with the package to be installed sorry about your luck, it is not there for the packages they do. Where the adults are in charge the Debian packages you get you change logs each and every time. Oh the trash banned me from the forum for stating "it is my computer I get to decide what is done with it, not some programmer who thinks they still own my machine I bought and paid for". Slimy slimy slimy people.
Edit: I have since taken care of that and put the adults in charge of the situation, they have never failed me in almost twenty years of use, whenever Woody was released.
Whatever your standpoint on MS, the installation of a 3rd party repository without consent is a very bad form. It would be similar to subliminally adding the google chrome repository or any other 3rd party repository without consent.
When installing an OS such as for example, Debian, you decide to trust the Debian project and developers and maintainers. You trust the work of those individuals as part of a larger project - adhering to the guidelines, policy and philosophy of said project. What you don't give them licence to do is secretly add a binary repository, hosted by Microsoft, serving proprietary software. The arrogance is indeed breathtaking - as you can see from the quote in my last post. My answer would be along the lines of: "and as a result, I have in turn made the decision not to trust you...".
Whatever your standpoint on MS, the installation of a 3rd party repository without consent is a very bad form. It would be similar to subliminally adding the google chrome repository or any other 3rd party repository without consent.
When installing an OS such as for example, Debian, you decide to trust the Debian project and developers and maintainers. You trust the work of those individuals as part of a larger project - adhering to the guidelines, policy and philosophy of said project. What you don't give them licence to do is secretly add a binary repository, hosted by Microsoft, serving proprietary software. The arrogance is indeed breathtaking - as you can see from the quote in my last post. My answer would be along the lines of: "and as a result, I have in turn made the decision not to trust you...".
It's interesting that someone found a relatively invisible, unexpected, unwanted, possibility for allowing M$ to invoke their privacy policy based on any use of their software or services and another person dismissing it as a non-issue since it was 'corrected.'
Many really need to read the M$ privacy policy: https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/privacystatement
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