Two Risks to Companies: The Microsoft Culture and the Microsoft Tools
It is only fair to say that Miguel de Icaza and his patron from Microsoft, Nat Friedman (who had worked directly for Microsoft), ruined Novell. The Microsoft-Novell patent collusion which we protested for years was partly the idea of Miguel de Icaza, based on senior Novell staff. He basically arranged for Microsoft to swallow Novell - a direct rival - after Novell had acquired his (and Friedman's) company. They're a pair of nasty snakes and they're very closely connected to the mobsters who fling SLAPPs at me and even at my wife. We'll spare our readers the disgusting things we heard about these people's sex lives. That would require saying words that are too family-unfriendly for this site.
That's an example of the cultural dangers of Microsoft. It operates like a cult and it rewards "members" with titles like "GitHub CEO" (until there are untenable scandals, only a day after this article - or less than 24 hours later - the SLAPPs may begin).
Novell was killed by a form of "social engineering" by Microsoft. Novell thought it had acquired talent in Ximiam. Instead it brought in Microsoft moles with Microsoft background and connections. Guess who "the masters" were. After Novell licked Steve Ballmer's boot the masters became Redmond-based, not Provo (Utah)- or Waltham (Massachusetts)-based. Matthew Garrett, a friend of de Icaza and Friedman, was so furious at critics of the deal that he resorted to violent allusions against these critics.
"The unsaid part," we said earlier in a footnote, is that "Microsoft left out there, unemployed, a lot of 'toxic waste' of staff. Wherever they go next, it poses a risk (e.g. attempts to impose AD, Azure, C# etc. on colleagues). To be clear, it's not a new problem but its magnitude grows when Microsoft lays off about 29,000 people in 6 months. If those people cannot find a job that matches their 'skills', then they might find some job onto which they'll unload Microsoft... 'skills'."
"It could be an extra sentence at the beginning too," a reader argued, "because it pertains very directly to Microsoft Bryan" (the person who causes a mess everywhere he goes; after Microsoft he just trolls everybody, even people whom he claims to support).
While Lunduke does not openly promote Microsoft, "he brings the toxicity of their work culture," an associate opines, though it would be mostly "wrong to lump the work culture and the crapware-pushing together".
Sometimes both happen at the same time. I experienced that firsthand. The last article mentioned Active Directory as an example. It was "initially a shoddy, proprietary imitation of LDAP + Kerberos," the associate recalls. I actually saw and wrote about Microsoft goons trying to push Microsoft things into Sirius. It was so toxic that the person was removed from the company. He'd later boast online that he was keen on using Microsoft. Why was he hired by a company called Sirius Open Source then? █
