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Red Hat/IBM Crybullies, GNOME Foundation Bankruptcy, and Microsoft Moles (Operatives) Inside Debian

posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 01, 2024

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dictionary.com on crybully: a person who self-righteously harasses or intimidates others while playing the victim, especially of a perceived social injustice

THIS is today's 18th "story". On Monday and Tuesday we published close to 50. We're becoming more efficient over time and we're producing, fact-checking, proof-reading a larger body of text. We're hopefully effective enough and we're proud to say that after nearly 18 years we never compromised/burned any sources. Our source protection and accuracy rates are very high.

We have several interesting stories in the pipeline. Seeing that "the news" in general is waning (that's not limited to BSD and GNU/Linux news), we expect to have more time to write articles. We estimate that we can work on and finalise about 5,000 per year. Being happy and healthy results in high productivity.

As always, we welcome corrections and if there is evidence to support these corrections, we do amend articles.

Considering what's going on at Red Hat/IBM [1, 2], and the Red Hat-dominated GNOME Foundation seemingly going bankrupt soon (Fedora already discusses moving to KDE), Miguel de Icaza's harmful legacy, which includes Mono, may be heading towards extinction. Fellow Microsoft moles of his, like Jo Shields who had pushed Mono into Debian and Ubuntu before Microsoft hired him and took over Mono (Xamarin), is a reminder of the dangers of Microsoft moles inside Debian.

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