>Of course! You chose to run Debian. Debian is entirely upfront about this!
Okay, then going back to the beginning of the argument and the comparison you denied is accurate. If merely choosing Debian is sufficient reason enough for the user to assume that Debian as the distributor acts as a middleman in all sorts of ways, how exactly is that different from an app store?
After all you choose to buy an iPhone or use the Google Play store, so if the argument is that consent, given exactly once invalidates any concern, that applies to any platform, nobody's ever been held at gunpoint to install an operating system.
I think what would help is indeed if maintainers make significant changes that the user is informed about that very visible during the installation process.
> If merely choosing Debian is sufficient reason enough for the user to assume that Debian as the distributor acts as a middleman in all sorts of ways, how exactly is that different from an app store?
Because you decide the power of the middleman on your system. And you have full freedom to change whatever the middleman delivers. Neither is typically true of app stores.
> After all you choose to buy an iPhone or use the Google Play store, so if the argument is that consent, given exactly once invalidates any concern, that applies to any platform, nobody's ever been held at gunpoint to install an operating system.
Pray tell, what other choices do I have in the phone market? And how are my choices in the PC market, again?
> I think what would help is indeed if maintainers make significant changes that the user is informed about that very visible during the installation process.
Okay, then going back to the beginning of the argument and the comparison you denied is accurate. If merely choosing Debian is sufficient reason enough for the user to assume that Debian as the distributor acts as a middleman in all sorts of ways, how exactly is that different from an app store?
After all you choose to buy an iPhone or use the Google Play store, so if the argument is that consent, given exactly once invalidates any concern, that applies to any platform, nobody's ever been held at gunpoint to install an operating system.
I think what would help is indeed if maintainers make significant changes that the user is informed about that very visible during the installation process.