Microsoft Canonical is Selling Mass Surveillance and Back Doors as "Security for Ubuntu"

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 30, 2025

The sellouts at Ubuntu/Canonical (100% of the blog posts are Microsoft promotion) keep proving our point:

Canonical is not a GNU/Linux vendor. It is a reseller. It's a big Microsoft reseller. It's not limited to Microsoft, but Microsoft is a big part of it.

If you are looking for a GNU/Linux distro to use, just remember that Microsoft has Ubuntu in the bag. Consider using something else. █

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