You're probably over-estimating the number of privacy-conscious and freedom-conscious people in the general public, who mainly use Windows, Android and Facebook. Windows is arguably the least privacy-invasive of those. https://blog.torproject.org/blog/mission-impossible-hardenin...

Further, in tables of probably dubious merit (but all we have), Microsoft generally comes out as one of the most admired and most ethical companies. http://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2015/03/09/microsof...

Windows is openly-licensed to OEMs (just sign up on the website) and available at retail. You are free to build your own Windows PC or even start your own PC manufacturing company. Windows source code is available on application ;-)

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sharedsource/

> Microsoft generally comes out as one of the most admired and most ethical companies http://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2015/03/09/microsof...

https://www.quora.com/How-did-Microsoft-become-the-worlds-mo...

In all seriousness, I'm supposed to believe that someone who has released a system like win10 is ethical? They made their goals clear with this one.

Perhaps they don't spill the oil in the ocean or make dubious financial schemes like those banks, but that's not enough for me, sorry.

> Windows source code is available on application ;-)

Same way intel ME source is probably available somewhere to someone, doesn't mean they shouldn't be burned down to the ground for inventing it.

Well, I use Android, but it basically has no privacy. I ought to be bothered enough to install Cyanogenmod, but I haven't....

> someone who has released a system like win10 is ethical

I don't see why not. It's a mobile operating system and in my opinion the privacy issues have been ridiculously overblown. I don't use Chrome, and I do use Ghostery and uBlock Origin and a few other things, but I have no problems using my Windows 10 set-up with Basic telemetry.

Windows 10 is already being rolled out by the US Defense Department (for the increased security), and almost all global companies are going to move to it in the 2020s.

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt577208%28v=vs....

Software freedom is something that only a minority of the open source people are interested in and that's overall not a large group to begin with.

It's that people don't understand what information is available about them, and what sacrifices they have to make to ensure privacy.

Should they begin to understand that on a large scale, they would then begin to care about privacy.

Put differently, for any n, it's better that n% of people love you flat out, than everybody loves you n%. But for large enough ns, either is very lucrative.

Subaru n=2, Microsoft n=40, or something like that.