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.