"As part of the agreement, Nearform will manage the source code repository on [Microsoft's proprietary software prison] GitHub," it says this Monday (more in our Daily Links to come)
Summary: The Linux Foundation's deep ties and collaborations with the surveillance industry (and Microsoft) continue to tighten
Because digital connections in third parties aren't assets; they endow another party with tremendous power over people (e.g. MElon getting to decide who can and cannot reach people or what messages to "dim down")
Narrowing down to desktops and laptops, and judging by Web requests that go through Clownflare, many people there use GNU/Linux or Google's 'bastardised' version of it (with spyware preloaded)
From what we can gather, the tram ticketing system does not use Windows; we never saw it crashing or rebooting (or showing some Windows logo) in decades, so we assume it runs some kind of Linux
