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surprisingly russia is at 5th.
Graphs like this will always be population graphs. Russia is the 9th most populated country with 140 million people.
Linux has always had a strong showing over there. If I had the misfortune of living there I'd certainly want all the privacy and autonomy I could get...
And probably some security bars for your windows and balcony, so that you don't accidentally fall to your death...
And have a taste tester for food
Speaking of countries, I'm surprised that China isn't in the top 10, especially considering their efforts to reduce reliance on US tech.
Maybe it's somehow related with the Great Firewall and they are not included in the statistics correctly.
I'm sorry I didn't notice. Then it's a little unexpected.
They likely have their own homegrown alternatives, you think Xi the Poo would allow such corruption of his people by giving them access to corrupting capitalist software such as non approved encrypted messaging services?
There aren't really home-grown alternatives
And it's not like it didn't have a reason. A lot of closed "capitalist" software has been seen in not very good and honest actions. And the penalties for this were very light. Yes open source mostly is a different story.
I'm sure the authoritarian dictator is being benevolent and looking out for the good of his people when building the firewall and locking down the internet.
Don't be a fool. Just because you can point to closed sourced bad actors doesn't mean it was done for anything less than control.