06.28.20
Gemini version available ♊︎Teaser: Coup Against Richard Stallman Was Followed by Enhanced Outsourcing of GNU Projects to Microsoft
This was a year and a half earlier:
Summary: Projects that are part of the GNU Project are being outsourced to the very company that’s viciously attacking the GPL (copyleft), both directly and indirectly; the extent of this problem is being studied
Techrights is preparing a report about who diverted GNU projects’ traffic to Microsoft (and roughly when it began). As one person noted (the tip which got this research rolling): “If you want to know why https://gnu.org/software/flex/flex.html
redirects directly to GitHub, it’s courtesy of our good friend Mr. Matt “Call it Linux” Lee (who lost his temper and abruptly blocked me for merely defending Stallman):
www/software/flex flex.html
From: Matt Lee
Subject: www/software/flex flex.html
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2019 11:30:29 -0500 (EST)
CVSROOT: /web/www
Module name: www
Changes by: Matt Lee <mattl> 19/12/03 11:30:29Modified files:
software/flex : flex.htmlLog message:
Not a GNU-project, and not subject to GNU Kind Communications
Guidelines. Redirecting the webpages to the Wikipedia article which links to
the relevant websites, source, etc plus explains the situation.CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/software/flex/flex.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.10&r2=1.11
Patches:
Index: flex.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/www/www/software/flex/flex.html,v
retrieving revision 1.10
retrieving revision 1.11
diff -u -b -r1.10 -r1.11
— flex.html 20 Jun 2017 19:38:43 -0000 1.10
+++ flex.html 3 Dec 2019 16:30:28 -0000 1.11
@@ -1,24 +1,6 @@[...]
-<h2>Flex</h2>
-
-Flex (The Fast Lexical Analyzer)
-
-Flex is a fast lexical analyser generator. It is a tool for generating
-programs that perform pattern-matching on text. Flex is a free (but
-non-GNU) implementation of the original Unix lex program.
-
-The project repository is now hosted at github: <a
-href=”https://github.com/westes/flex”;>https://github.com/westes/flex</a>.
-Releases can be found at <a
-href=”https://github.com/westes/flex/releases”;>https://github.com/westes/flex/releases</a>.[...]
Stay tuned as a report on this (and more projects) is on the way. Maybe today, maybe tomorrow. Research is ongoing. █