To me, the intent of open-source, free, whatever, is simply that "my computer should do my bidding, not someone else's". In the last couple of weeks I've insta

To me, the intent of open-source, free, whatever, is simply that "my computer should do my bidding, not someone else's". In the last couple of weeks I've installed an OS X machine, and a couple of windows machines, both of which insisted I provide phone numbers, emails, or credit cards in order to install just the basic OS. Linux is already a clear win for privacy and the principle that my computer is, my computer, not a client terminal to a corporate "ecosystem" (with "users" obviously being the plants, or at best, herbivores).