This so-called 'foundation' which is close to Microsoft (many such foundations -- including Gates' -- are pro-Westernisation and sometimes for-profit) dresses itself up as 'open source', but based on its new press release it's mostly about loans to poor populations. It's a shady area because the poor people need to pay back, so they become slaves of the banker or hedge fund in question. We gave examples of this practice before (and below we put a good video from Pilger).
The use of the term "open source" in press releases of the Grameen Foundation seems to be for marketing purposes. In everything we have seen in those press releases (so fat at least) there is no evidence of proper "Open Source" being involved. And speaking of fake open source, since we mentioned Jean Paoli's appearance a few hours ago, here is an expansion on that. Microsoft now promotes all sorts of notions like "Open Cloud", which is like saying that giving someone else one's data makes it transparent or more accessible. It is the very opposite, so watch out for the spin machine. ⬆
In a democratic society the Right to Know, which is closely connected to freedom of the press (or what one might label "blogging" or "blag"), comes above all else, except where there are lives being put at risk
Slovenia fielded one of the few Administrative Council delegations which managed to maintain its own independent line against the tyrannical EPOnian "Sun King"
The aim of the series is to properly inform the world - not just Europeans - how Europe's second-largest institution is run [...] How did a corporate hub of monopolies become so detached from the Rule of Law?
