On Sun, Apr 04, 2021 at 09:13:34AM -0400, murph nj wrote: > Richard: (and/or anyone else with strong feelings about Lenovo) > > I have a question regarding your experience with Lenovo. > > I have always had a problem with the "Superfish" incident that they > had a few years ago. Of course that particular invasive spyware was > Windows-only, but what happens if they decide to target Linux users > with similar malicious software. > > In other words, do you trust them to have reformed in this regard, and why?
I trust the people we're working with, for three reasons: 1. They're entirely different people in a different group; Lenovo is a big company with a complex organization. The Superfish thing happened in the "Lenovo Notebook" line, which is an entirely different business from the Think* systems. 2. If you don't trust people, you might still follow the money, and in this case, the motivation is coming from people asking for Fedora Linux as a preinstall option. That's a very different financial motivation than what led to preinstalling terrible adware on a budget consumer Windows notebook. 3. The team has been very clear that they want no such thing, and that they want to provide a completely stock out-of-the-box Fedora Workstation system. This is, in fact, the only thing that is allowed by our trademark rules; if they wanted to put something else in there, they'd have to call it something else. -- Matthew Miller <mat...@fedoraproject.org> Fedora Project Leader _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
