There are fundamental flaws in the argument<p>&gt; He now uses a Lenovo ThinkPad laptop<p>And that is relevant in what way?<p>&gt; with GNU and Linux software<p>Alright, fair enough.<p>&gt; he’s swapped Microsoft Office for LibreOffice<p>As before, fair enough, if one believes in FOSS being &quot;better&quot; than commercial software.<p>&gt; he doesn’t use Gmail but Mozilla’s Thunderbird<p>Apples with oranges. The former is mail provider, also offering a web interface. The latter is an email client, which is pretty useless without a place where you receive emails. So what is actually using instead of Gmail?<p>&gt; and, despite considering the iPhone the best on the market, he uses an Android handset with the Cyanogenmod operating system.<p>Not only contradicts the &quot;ditching Google&quot; credo, but is also a useless move in this context. If he really wants to follow through with his FOSS approach he should be using Sailfish OS, Tizen, Ubuntu Touch or Firefox OS.