>Linux isn't free, [...], it costs privacy. I hate this rhetorical trick. The article says "Ubuntu" and you generalize to all Linux distributions. What's the

>Linux isn't free, [...], it costs privacy. I hate this rhetorical trick. The article says "Ubuntu" and you generalize to all Linux distributions. What's the point of that mud-slinging against all Linuxes, including projects like Debian whose maintainers work at great expense to ensure user's freedoms are protected? (e.g. by having an extra team "Debian-legal" that studies all licenses and ensures there remains a clear cut between free and proprietary software)