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i started to move into freebsd; but then i learned that the california board of regents pre-complied with the same export controls that the federal government has placed on the linux kernel; so now i'm looking for something else.
what do you mean by "export controls"? backdoors?
the united states uses laws named export controls to create a list of "naughty" nations who aren't allowed to have certain technologies and; as of six-ish months ago; they forced those laws upon the linux kernel when they kicked out their russian developers.
the american federal government now gets to decide who can & can't contribute to the linux kernel and the bsd's did the same thing even though they didn't have to.
ah ok