Video: Microsoft-Sponsored 'Copyleft' Conf (Keynote Sold to Microsoft, a Serial GPL Violator and Primary FUD Source) Features Previous FSF (Co)President and RMS Ouster

Dr. Roy Schestowitz

2020-08-06 15:09:01 UTC
Modified: 2020-08-06 15:09:01 UTC

Summary: There's now a video online of the debates in CopyleftConf 2020

A READER has brought to our attention this video uploaded back in April (one among fifteen) to the Internet Archive. Notice the video page's side bar:

Screenshot of CopyleftConf site

Stay classy, SFC... having multiple Microsoft speakers in an event about something those people are basically attacking (but they pay to pretend the opposite... like "Microsoft loves Linux").

Mind the part where a question gets asked about hardware that's Internet-connected and contains back doors (enabling remote control by another party over one's Free software program). They don't seem to recognise or accept the threat. It has only been 6 years since Edward Snowden's NSA leaks. ⬆

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Video: Microsoft-Sponsored 'Copyleft' Conf (Keynote Sold to Microsoft, a Serial GPL Violator and Primary FUD Source) Features Previous FSF (Co)President and RMS Ouster

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