It Feels Like IBM and Canonical Are Intentionally Not Promoting GNU/Linux on Desktops/Laptops (Given Yet Another Golden - Albeit Missed - Opportunity)
One day ago: Red Hat (IBM) 'Principal Product Manager' Nikhil Mungale is Pushing Windows Today in RedHat.com
LAST week we wrote (here and in the sister site too) about Microsoft leaving Windows Vista 10 users to rot. Or alternatively, ripping them off for security patches at a time of financial perils (worldwide). Should poor people be left with known and actively-exploited 'bug doors'? Is that Microsoft's vision for the world???
"Move to GNU/Linux then," says a rational person. Or even to a BSD...
Who will tell the media about it? Canonical? IBM?
Nope, they're too busy shilling Windows and Microsoft's proprietary 'apps' (spyware), clown computing, and rancid philosophy...
They've moreover helped Microsoft with restricted boot, which further complicates if not technically prohibits putting any GNU/Linux distro on a so-called 'Windows PC' (no such thing; a PC is hardware, Windows is not).
According to news reports [1, 2] (some in Daily Links already), Microsoft's latest decision is an attack on the planet, on the environment too! Don't ask the Linux Foundation to comment on that because this utterly rogue foundation gets paid by Microsoft to greenwash Microsoft. It's deceit and sellout as a "business model" - a model that is of course not sustainable.
One reader of ours argues that Canonical (Ubuntu) and IBM (RHEL) are both too infiltrated by Microsofters to be making hay with this; the reader asserts it is a recurring event as "Microsoft + Intel ratchet down towards hardware level DRM" (TPM and DRM).
The reader asked me: "Would the UK Green Party be interested in reducing 240M kg (~ 240Gg?) of e-waste next year?"
"It' something they should at least debate, and pick a stance one side or the other."
Well, German politicians are in bed with Microsoft (even bagging bribes), so don't expect such debates in the EU or central European nations.
Suffice to say, Microsoft stands to gain the most from sabotage of Free software and it is worth noting that DRM violates the Doctrine of First Sale. That can be revisited some time soon. What Microsoft, Intel and useless brands like "Ubuntu" are doing this month is an attack on the universal consumer's rights, never mind software freedom.
One needn't even be a software freedom 'fanatic' to care about this. This is an attack on all computer users, irrespective of their views on software freedom.
One brand we've not mentioned here is SUSE (of Novell infamy). Well, "open" SUSE wants to outsource control over SUSE PCs to Microsoft... as per their latest (very lengthy) strategy document. Suffice to say, this is a really bad move, wrongly marketed as "security". This is what happens when the media bags money from Microsoft, politicians bag money from Microsoft, companies like Novell/IBM/Canonical sign deals with Microsoft, and Microsofters get hired and then promoted to management positions, where they serve Microsoft while receiving a salary from SUSE/IBM/Canonical.
GNU/Linux needs a stronger and much bigger community element. Microsoft keeps 'buying' corporations like IBM/Canonical, or at least units of theirs which were meant to compete with Windows. Infiltration by Microsofters is an aspect we've long covered here and we have provided many concrete examples.
Microsoft hates Linux. Microsoft need only pretend otherwise to infiltrate the opposition and then derail it from the inside. Microsoft has done this for decades already. Apparently just talking about it would be a "CoC violation" nowadays. █
“Linux infestations are being uncovered in many of our large accounts as part of the escalation engagements.”
--Microsoft Confidential