Slashdot Adding Microsoft GitHub to All Linux Pages in Order to Shill Proprietary Code Hosting
Dr. Roy Schestowitz
2022-09-19 13:35:48 UTC
Modified: 2022-09-19 13:35:48 UTC
Summary: Slashdot used to be a pro-GNU/Linux site; now it's run by very different people, but many make wrong assumptions about what the site actually is
("Schneier on Security" seems to have become "Slashdot on Security" lately)
Alyssa Rosenzweig is the graphics witch behind the reverse-engineered drivers for the Apple GPU. She previously led Panfrost, the free drivers for Arm Mali GPUs powering devices like the Pinebook Pro. She graduated in 2023 with a Computer Science degree from the University of Toronto and now writes free software full-time.
Now we have a project started primarily by Red Hat (and managed by Microsoft GitHub, which is proprietary) being managed by Microsoft and primarily serving Microsoft and IBM