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Teaser: Coup Against Richard Stallman Was Followed by Enhanced Outsourcing of GNU Projects to Microsoft

This was a year and a half earlier:

Matt Lee on Gitlab



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 11:30:29

Modified files: software/flex : flex.html

Log 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.

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