11.19.19
Jean-Luc Breton
Summary: Breton a champion of obstruction and obfuscation
11.10.19
Thick Skin Makes Strong Communities
Summary: Learning to coexist with people who don’t agree on everything is a strength and successful societies encourage that (the alternative is blind conformity on all matters)
Training (Proprietary Software) Versus Teaching (Free Software)
Summary: Education necessitates software freedom — a fact that companies like Adobe, Apple and Microsoft try hard to distract from
11.09.19
Helps to Have Connections and Operate at a Loss Just to Drive the Competition Out of the Market
Recent: Azure Apparently Losing Money and Microsoft Lies to Shareholders, in Effect Breaking the Law
Summary: Microsoft still uses the same anticompetitive tactics and outright illegal tactics such as bribery, but we’re supposed to think Microsoft is run like a charity
11.07.19
MIT Suggestions
Summary: Sometimes things are too ugly to talk oneself out of; so a distraction is urgently needed
11.05.19
Microsoft Needs CoC
Summary: When Microsoft controls the opposition Microsoft can control the narratives at both ends
10.30.19
Non-Compete Gentlemen’s Agreement
They won’t pursue the desktop/laptop
Summary: When Microsoft sponsors the opposition/competition it also controls the opposition/competition
“You’re going out with a girl, what you really want to do is have a deep, close and intimate relationship, at least for one night. And, you know, you just can’t let her feel like that, because if you do, it ain’t going to happen, right. So you have to talk long term and white picket fence and all these other wonderful things, or else you’re never going to get what you’re really looking for.”
–James Plamondon, Lead Microsoft Evangelist
10.24.19
Humour: EPO Has the Solution
Summary: The “problem-solution” approach at the European Patent Office (EPO) explained by an insider
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