Apple and Google will gladly erase the works of developers to chase profits.
this post was submitted on 03 Oct 2025
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If the big problem is licensing proprietary protocols, wht not just make pirate distros?
Fully anonymous open source development is viable. This could happen. If done well, it could be a very good OS due to being able to do things without license concerns. The problem is: using it wouldn't be legal. Disguise mode to seem like other OS?
Use KDE. It looks like KDE.
Edit: point is cops dont even know what Linux is, and I, a Linux user, can't ID a distro just by looking at GUI unless it's got a logo showing.