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You can get enough software to live your life from the Debian repositories (sources too).

The same is true for fedora and other distros of course. Many mirrors are hosted at ISPs and universities.

I remember getting sources from university ftp mirrors for Linux (still do for OpenBSD). I wouldn't be surprised if some of these repositories are now hosted by the 'giants'.

You're mistaking repository with mirrors.

If Facebook is mirroring the Debian package repository you can still apt-get binary/source packages off another mirror.

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