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Just for perspective: 1% of 1 billion is 10 millions. That's a lot of people and then some.

Taking care of a server that receives browsing data from lots of users in lots of countries must be a nightmare.

This would infuriate me to no end. It's not enough that I'm forced to leave my home because of corruption and other problems? You dare come after me and ask for money? I would give up my citizenship the fastest I could.

It's not clear to me. Were those people paid or volunteers?

In my country, working as an Uber driver gets you a good salary. I think it's around 1000€ (minimum wage being less than 500€). Is it different in USA? Do they get less than minimum wage for 8 hours?

LTS depends on CVEs. And we see here that the CVE database is not entirely trust worthy. The chain is a bit broken.

As a 10 years user of Linux (at home and at work) let me tell you that page is full of FUD.

It's picking up every issue on Linux and paints it as a disaster.

Then it goes to "I have no idea what I'm talking about" mode with

There's no concept of drivers in Linux aside from proprietary drivers for NVIDIA/AMD GPUs

I'd argue that the same is true today. No big org is using pure OSS. They have big contracts with Redhat and the likes and they like to pretend that they're covered.

Maybe you don't listen.

"Apps" like Slack are on my hate list even above desktop Java apps. Seriously, I can't understand how come it's acceptable to use >1GB of RAM to display 10 lines of text.