Canonical is Boosting Microsoft's Proprietary Software With Extensive Surveillance

Dr. Roy Schestowitz

2020-08-13 08:19:40 UTC
Modified: 2020-08-13 08:19:40 UTC

Imagine this is a site of a company that once said that bug #1 is Windows having majority market share

WSL Ubuntu

Ubuntu Microsoft

Summary: Canonical's commitment to Free software barely exists; with so-called "Apps" and "Snaps" and "Stores" we're seeing a gradual transition to -- and acceptance of -- blobs and DRM, including Microsoft lock-in inside Ubuntu

IT was bad enough when Canonical was boosting Visual Studio 'Code' (openwashing of proprietary traps with surveillance in them); now it does the same for Visual Studio, which is entirely and completely proprietary, just as one could expect.

Rhys Davies perhaps inevitably shows Canonical working for Microsoft, promoting proprietary software lock-in. He speaks of "WebAssembly apps with C# and XAML from a single code base" and proprietary "Visual Studio and Ubuntu on WSL." (WSL is an attack on GNU/Linux)

"They're just shoehorning Microsoft and proprietary software through 'Linux' (as a mere medium). Trojan horses."A Microsoft propaganda outlet (Windows Central) has also mentioned this as follows on the same day: "Uno Platform launched version 3.0 today, officially bringing Linux support to the fore after a period of testing. "The new addition makes it the first and only C# UI toolkit to enable creation of single-source applications for most popular desktop, web and mobile platforms," Uno Platform said in a press release. To show off the new integration, Uno Platform released a video showing a Windows Community Toolkit app running on Linux on a Raspberry Pi."

They're just shoehorning Microsoft and proprietary software through 'Linux' (as a mere medium). Trojan horses. ⬆

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