I understand how technology works, but this understanding, and understanding of the incentives and inner workings of most IT companies, just makes me trust it less. Nothing is reliable, almost nothing caters to the needs of the users, everything actively discourages any kind of education unless it's for monetary benefit. I miss the times when it was expected that people actually learn how stuff works to make most of it. Now we have someone else's trusted public keys burned into OTP ROMs in our personal devices, and not many people are even aware of that.
GNU/Linux runs on most things. The contributions come from many people, some are American or German corporations. The FSF is technically an American company, they don't behave like one though.
