johnson_pw
2016-11-02 07:04 deepin
https://bbs.deepin.org/post/31637
You may be absolutely right but let me ask you a question before you heard about deepin you had Micr ...
Did you mean ethics rather than ethnic?
I still use Windows and also use Qubes, TAILS, Raspbian, Deepin, and Parrot. Whatever I feel is best for what I'm doing.
Governments can jail you, that is the difference between CPC/NSA/GCHQ and Microsoft/Apple. Even if Deepin is entirely compromised by the Chinese government, that is not likely to personally affect me.
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Because an Operating System is such a low-level element in our digital lives, users need to trust it 100%. Windows and Mac have backdoors and are not worthy of trust. However Deepin as an alternative comes from a country with the Great Firewall of China and appears to be funded by 'Wuhan Technology' company.
Also, open source software can still have malicious code in it, provided people checking the code don't find it. Vulnerabilities like Adobe Flash player can be left intentionally not up to date.
Despite this, I trust Deepin. I do, however, have a hard time explaining to other people why they should install Deepin on their computers. I hope you can provide objective answers to the following questions.
1) How can 'Wuhan Technology' afford to pay for the highly-skilled Deepin developers (and hosting) if the product makes no money, harvests no data and is only for the good of humanity?
2) What motivation (other than humanitarian) is there to make Deepin?
3) How would you convince a skeptic that there are no hidden catches?