07.31.19
Gemini version available ♊︎Jim Zemlin: Open Source Loves Microsoft
Summary: The Linux Foundation‘s Jim Zemlin, who does not use Open Source, tells us how Open Source feels about Microsoft
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- EFF Has Been Hijacked, and Just Like Mozilla and the Linux Foundation It Doesn’t Fight for What It Was Originally Made to Achieve
- “Linux Foundation Partners With Microsoft” Again
- ‘Open Source’ as a Proprietary Software Coup and an Attack on Software Freedom
- EFF: Sitting on a Massive Pile of Money and Members Are Less Than a Third of the Revenue
- Losing Sight of GNU? Then Linux Might Be Next…
- Linux Foundation Has Killer Instincts
- Open Source Trusting Microsoft
- Linux Foundation Has Outsourced All the Licence Compliance Stuff to Microsoft, a Serial GPL Violator
- You Know WSL is Bad for GNU/Linux Because Anti-Linux People, Microsoft and Its Propagandists, Want People to Use That
- Openwashing Report: ‘Open Source’ Without Any or Most of the Benefits
- The Sad Truth That Linux Foundation Staff is Against GPL/Copyleft and Sometimes Against Linux (Unless It’s Run Under Vista 10)
- Casual Bribery by Bill Gates Helps Control the Media and Spread Microsoft Lies (Such as “Microsoft Loves Linux”)
- The Linux Foundation is a Tax-Exempt PR Firm With Glorified Trademark
- Microsoft’s Plan for Linux is to Make it Proprietary Software With ‘Surveillance Capitalism’
- Openwashing Report: Save the Term (or Concept of) ‘Open Source’ or Lose it For Good
- Serial GPL Violators Fancy Being Called ‘Open Source’ and the Linux Foundation is Happy to Oblige
- Covering What Other Sites Fail to Cover or Do Not Want to Cover
- To GNU/Linux, the Operating System, GAFAM (Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft) is Not the Threat. Microsoft is.
- The Free Software Foundation (FSF) Has the Full Support of Techrights
- GitHub is a Dagger Inside Free/Open Source Software (FOSS); This is Why Microsoft Bought It
- Nothing Says ‘New’ Microsoft Like Microsoft Component Firmware Update (More Hardware Lock-in)
- Being in Favour of Free/Libre Open Source Software Means Rejecting Software Patents
- Planet Python is Being Overrun by Microsoft, Just Like PyCon and Python in General
- Wrong Person in Charge of the Linux Foundation (and in Charge of Linus Torvalds)
- The Linux Foundation’s Open Source Summit is a Proprietary Software Marketing Venue
- We Need to Prevent Linux Journal From Going Dark (Offline) or Encourage Archiving It as a Contingency
- Open Cloud Summit Shows Microsoft and the Linux Foundation Organising Events Together (as Full Partners, in Tandem)
- We May Need Linux Contingencies
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