Microsoft Killed the Term "Open Source" (by Bribing/Taking Over OSI, 'Linux' Foundation Etc.) and Now It Needs to Kill the Brand Linux (Because Windows Just Won't Run!)
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"It's great to see China get away from Intel and Microsoft," Ryan said earlier today in IRC. "That was supposed to be Microsoft's "We'll figure out how to collect later." market."
Ryan was referring to Bill Epsteingate saying in relation to China that he was trying to get them "addicted". Mr. Epsteingate knows a thing or two about getting kids addicted, right?
In the news earlier on (Daily Links) we included the story "Bye-bye, Microsoft: Huawei launches its first non-Windows laptop", which said: "By the end of 2024, more than 7.2 million individual developers were developing apps for HarmonyOS, which was installed on over a billion devices, including smartphones and TVs, according to Huawei’s latest annual report. Huawei did not disclose which processor it had used to power the newly launched laptops, but it said the computers’ relatively high prices were the result of the cost of new manufacturing technology for the chipset. Huawei did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the chip."
We commented on this repeatedly for several weeks already. There's a shift away from Windows and Western media barely talks about it (the above is an African site).
Talking about the Huawei observation above, an associate says: "This is important: [...] The HarmonyOS has both good and bad aspects, but breaking the Windows component of the Wintel monopoly on OEMs is priceless. [...] There is no information [about which processor]. However, one possibility is that they could use the Loongson (a MIPS ripoff) and that will help break the Intel part of the Wintel monopoly. The x86 architecture is, and always has been, garbage and needs to go. However, the combined Wintel duopoly has been able to squash competition for many decades, basically since the 1990s."
We said the same last week. Many of these devices simply cannot run Windows. So they won't. We already learned about the importance of not being able to run Windows when Microsoft sabotaged OLPC by offering Windows 'for free', causing all sorts of fatal problems. Over the years Microsoft attempted to repeat the same tactics against single-board computers (SBCs) including Raspberry Pi. As a general rule, as x86 is so rife with corruption such as kickbacks, for GNU/Linux to grow it needs to target lightweight and more easily understood architectures. Not too long ago the US government wanted to restrict RISC-V access to China [1, 2]. On whose behalf? At the behest of Microsoft? Microsoft has done this for many decades already*.
Seeing what goes on worldwide, it's hardly surprising that even ZDNet admits GNU/Linux has gone mainstream. Why else would Microsoft falsely describe Windows as "Linux" and "Open Source"? █
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* Back in the old days Microsoft was a small company and was helping IBM not just because of the monopoly-related oversight but also Epsteingate's mother (the Madame Maxwell, who later died from cancer). She was a magnate, not by virtue of any personal accomplishments but dynasty, but she was a key person to Microsoft - one might say an "asset", who was inside IBM's Board. The computers were meant to run IBM's software systems, but Microsoft had other plans and it sabotaged rivals, as clearly documented in court documents. So an associate says that if we mention vaporware then we ought to go into the rug-pull Microsoft did against IBM over OS/2 vs Windows NT. At the end Microsoft didn't honour its agreement with IBM (contrary to the lies told by Epsteingate months ago in the form of a book and promotional puff pieces), somewhat similarly to what happened with Mark Zuckerberg and the Winklevoss twins, Cameron and Tyler.
"The purpose of announcing early like this is to freeze the market at the OEM and ISV level. In this respect it is JUST like the original Windows announcement...
"One might worry that this will help Sun because we will just have vaporware, that people will stop buying 486 machines, that we will have endorsed RISC but not delivered... So, Scott, do you really think you can fight that avalanche?"
--Nathan Myhrvold, Microsoft
"Stewart Alsop, industry gadfly, presented Gates with the "Golden Vaporware" award, saying, "The delay of Windows was all part of a secret plan to have Bill turn thirty before it shipped."
--Barbarians Led by Bill Gates, a book composed
by the daughter of Microsoft's PR mogul