> Either the software would get less invasive, or we'd see Linux everywhere, wins all around.

The unfortunate part is that this is just one department in our government that sort of independently does these investigations. Whether anything politically is going to come out of this result, like a law or even just a directive for other departments, is questionable at best.

Other departments will readily ignore this report, if it's convenient for them to use Windows 10. Heck, there's been a warning before from a federal data protection department that even Windows 10 Enterprise sends encrypted, undisclosed packets off to Redmond, and shortly after that the self-proclaimed Microsoft fan and Lord Mayor of Munich signed off on migrating back to Windows from their perfectly working Linux solution.