It Used to be IBM, Now It's Microsoft (Why You Need to Fire Microsofters or CIOs Working for Microsoft)
"Start by firing the CIO." (Or "Start med at fyre CIO'en" as Version2 put is in Danish)
It's a new article.
There's an automated translation. The original says: "Det er svært at overbevise folk når deres løn afhænger af at de ikke forstår og der er rigtig mange jakkesæt i den danske IT branchen, som har haft hovedet så langt oppe i røven på Microsoft hele deres professionelle karriere, at de ikke engang har det nødvendige ordforråd til at deltage i debatten."
In English (poor translation): "It's hard to convince people when their salary depends on them not understanding, and there are a lot of suits in the Danish IT industry who have had their heads so far up Microsoft's asses their entire professional career that they don't even have the necessary vocabulary to participate in the debate."
Further down it says: "PS: Jeg er også træt af, at journalister ikke spørger de samme nej-sigere hvor mange Microsoft aktier de personligt ejer."
In English: "PS: I'm also tired of journalists not asking the same naysayers how many Microsoft shares they personally own."
This sounds like a recurring theme. A lot of companies work for Microsoft and compel staff to do the same, even if the salaries are not paid by Microsoft. There's this "cult mentality" driving the decision-making.
The above article mentions the "old" IBM before discussing what Microsoft nowadays does to organisations, led by Microsofters who are disloyal to the company/organisation paying the salary (they instead work for Microsoft and Microsoft's interests).
We're currently suing someone who did this inside Linux [1, 2]. He's still trying to shoehorn TPM into everything (to no avail) and advocating Microsoft's back-doored encryption [1, 2].
It's all about taking control away from computer users.
Microsofters are a "disease" (to paraphrase Linus Torvalds on an unrelated matter). Microsofters always serve Microsoft.
"A large and growing number of institutions lease their desktops and laptops instead of buying and maintaining them," an associate explains. "That allows the administration to fire staff and replace them with always-politically-loyal consultants depending on the contracts. A side effect is total loss of control over the software, both applications and the operating system and related infrastructure."
"That loss of control is exploited by the Microsofters to push Vista 11 and TPM 2 onto the masses. Where do the four freedoms fit in if an institution has neither their own staff nor their own hardware? [And] maybe that is related to the freedom to not have to run a program" (c.f. systemd).
Nowadays systemd is pushing both restricted boot and TPM. systemd is also run by Microsoft staff, so there are overlaps.
systemd became a "Trojan horse" of Microsofters.
Typically the only effective solution is to identity and remove Microsofters from one's project/organisation (before they can bring more Microsofters in). They work for interests which are external and hostile. █