Microsoft Controlling Apache by Proxy/ies
Apache won't recover or escape Microsoft's fist if this carries on. This is a broader attack on what "Open Source" actually means and we have legitimate reasons for concern. Even others express similar concerns.
If Apache's leader is a SAS employee, then consider what SAS is. Let's have a quick look...
Is SAS a Microsoft/Windows shop? Seems so, based on what is being used "in-house"...
Competent technology firms would never use Microsoft for E-mail. Microsoft is only good at losing E-mail and having many long downtimes (such as last week's, impacting Outlook).
But wait, it gets worse.
This is the openwashing duo that's leading Apache now? Worrisome indeed...
Now they try to tick some "open source" box by hiring "trophy" people who cannot code, only talk (and casually lie). The 'Microsoft playbook'...
It's almost like one is a subsidiary (informally), not just a reseller, of the other.
"All of that explains why Microsoft has been increasing its attacks against R," an associate told us. We covered this many times before, e.g. two years ago (we had done so in earlier years as well).
"There are a lot of MBAs there or were and they put no value on knowledge, research, or science despite ostensibly selling scientific tools," the associate added, based on knowledge about the staff.
This isn't about science, it's about control or about power over other people:
"A weak company," the associate called it, as "no one survives partnership with Microsoft".
The headline said it all. That was a couple of years ago. █