The Microsoft-Led Open Source Initiative (OSI) is Hurting, It'll Try to Hurt Its Critics and Exposers Now
"Revenge" is a terrible motivator
The OSI series is having a big impact (see previous part or previous chapter) and we'll resume that some time soon. Techrights currently has an outline and 3 drafts about the OSI blunders. The OSI's chief meanwhile issues a bunch of meaningless waffle, a sort of "damage control" or "face-saving" platitudes.
Their RSS feed has not been so active lately. The means they're hurting. They don't know whether to keep quiet (silence suppresses heated replies) or talk about a bunch of 'nothing burgers'.
Aside from the above there are threats, bans, and doxing. We'll revisit that soon. Just like Microsoft and other vicious dictators, the OSI reckons it can just smear, defame, and censor critics.
Techrights too is targeted - even more so lately - because of exclusives, possibly because others (such as sites or authors) got knocked down by threats and budgetary issues. Microsoft et al have been changing their strategy over the years to threatening employers, bribing employers, doxing, and then the same for webhosts. Techrights is aggregating public material, it does not illegally obtain anything. So that makes us a "difficult" "target".
In a lot of ways we're flattered that Techrights has gotten so "scary" to these sinister companies and front groups. We welcome their fear.
Techrights likes to joke about how they shoot their own foot and often give us "free publicity".
One wrong move... and we'll file another lawsuit [1, 2] (when they go too far and do obviously illegal things). Matthew Garrett, for instance, will need to come to the UK to face lawsuits filed against him in the High Court. It's not a joke, it is actually happening. █