This is How Phoronix Covers Microsoft's Attack on Linux, Turning Mesa Into a Mess (Windows Code)

Dr. Roy Schestowitz

2023-06-30 06:05:44 UTC
Modified: 2023-06-30 06:05:44 UTC

Previously in Phoronix: Microsoft Thinks It Owns Mesa (and Computer Games) | Pushing Mesa and Linux Graphics Towards Proprietary Microsoft GitHub, WSL (Vista 10), and DirectX

Two days ago in Phoronix: (very soft on Microsoft)

Microsoft Adds Direct3D 12 Powered AV1 Video Encoding To Mesa

Summary: Microsoft is trying to compel people to make "Linux" programs that only work in Windows^* (WSL) and it is making the Mesa codebase a lot worse (some Mesa developers openly complained about it), but Phoronix puts a smile on and treats this like something to be celebrated^**

_____________ ^* This is classic, textbook "embrace, extend, extinguish" (later Microsoft pays OEMs to prevent them pre-installing GNU/Linux, instead shilling WSL or "app"); see the links at the top with videos that explained it in past years.

^** Years ago:

European Patent Office (EPO) Series: Legal Concerns and Suspicions of Irregularities: complaints submitted to OLAF
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SLAPP Censorship - Part 134 Out of 200: What "Majority Rules" Tell Us About the Litigant: we press on with this series
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Microsoft's Debt Continues to Steadily Increase, Not Counting Hundreds of Billions in Secret/Hidden Debt: The mass layoffs will carry on, maybe labelled LITE
IBM is Circling Down the Drain, the 'Growth' Comes From Beancounting Tricks and Salary Cuts: IBM was down 2.17% yesterday
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IRC Proceedings: Thursday, July 30, 2026: IRC logs for Thursday, July 30, 2026
Gemini Links 31/07/2026: Music, Journaling, and Longing: Links for the day
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Links 30/07/2026: Smol Document Server and More PalmOS-ing: Links for the day
Links 30/07/2026: Microsoft Refuting Its Own Slop Hype and "Amazon Is Gutting Its Hey Hi (AI) Division" (GAFAM Bubble): Links for the day
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Techrights Will Always Protect Sources: Our #1 priority is sources
The Era of Silence: So stay silent, remain hidden
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Overshoot Day Sites That Contribute to the Problem: Some of these are not even accessible (at all) without JavaScript
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Links 30/07/2026: "Age of Irrationality", Google Losing Money, and "House of Ellison is on the Brink": Links for the day
Gemini Links 30/07/2026: Homeworlds Notes and Manuscript Submitted: Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, July 29, 2026: IRC logs for Wednesday, July 29, 2026
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At The Register MS "PARTNER CONTENT" Means Company Writing Fake Articles About Itself and Its Own Products: At The Register MS, content-farming has become a thing
Staff of EPO Cautions Against Unlawful Weaponisation of PIPs Against Industrial Actions That Protest Corruption: PIP-like sanctions against anybody who does not toe the line of Cocaine King?
IBM, Running Out of Things It Can Sell, is Selling Software Patents: IBM is not just pathetic; it's actively harmful because it lobbies for software patents and spreads software patents around
Gemini Links 29/07/2026: Star Trek, Retirement, and ODEs in GNU Octave: Links for the day
Links 29/07/2026: "BuzzFeed Lays Off 33 Percent of Remaining Staff" (Trying LLM Slop Some More), Scam Altman Mocked by the Media: Links for the day
GNOME Curated and Censored by IBM (Under the Guise of "Code of Conduct"): Felipe Borges (IBM) has just posted a follow-up
Digital Mass Surveillance as a Hallmark of Failed Societies: "small leap forward in tech ethics"
I Found a Typo, Don't Vote!: Social control media isn't good at adding any meaningful signal
Jeremy Sands Explained the Harms of Codes of Conduct: next week the 500th show milestone [is reached]
Tonight's Earnings Report From Microsoft and Facebook ('Meta') Will be Faked Because They Hide Almost a Trillion Dollars in Debt: The US economic system is only as honest as the people who govern it
The Vacuum Syndrome: Parables help
The Only Old People Who Can Survive IBM Are the CEO and His Circle of Enablers: very similar to what's happening at the EPO
The 'Church' of Moglen/Stallman: 'reunion' with Eben Moglen
Microsoft Layoffs Aren't Done Ahead of the Need to Tell Shareholders About "Efficiency" (Tonight): Microsoft layoffs won't be "Done" until what's left of Microsoft is "None"
Microsoft Lacks Growth. Ahead of 'Results' The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) Finds Merit in Allegations Slop is Microsoft's Excuse for Price Hikes (Piggybacking Vendor Lock-in).: At this stage it's not hard to see why many nations gravitate away from Microsoft
Parliament leaks confidential cult inquiry witness contact list (COFG Victoria): Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
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European Patent Office (EPO) Series: Streamlining the Decision-Making Process: Negrão was one of 17 applicants for the position but he somehow managed to end up as the sole candidate on the shortlist prepared by the Management Board in June 2020
Links 29/07/2026: "Hugging Face Has a Deepfake Nudes Problem" and "$1.5B Anthropic Copyright Infringement Ruling" (Plagiarism is Not "Training"): Links for the day
Comments on Today's Judgment: It hopefully helps clarify what actually happened
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IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, July 28, 2026: IRC logs for Tuesday, July 28, 2026
Gemini Links 29/07/2026: Arosa, Tired Tuesday, and Constellation Browser: Links for the day

This is How Phoronix Covers Microsoft's Attack on Linux, Turning Mesa Into a Mess (Windows Code)

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