Amutable is a Microsoft Siege Against Freedom in GNU/Linux, Just Like the People Who Brought You 'Secure Boot' Controlled by Microsoft
Don't fall for the misleading spin or mindless hype from The Register MS (controlled by the paymasters of Amutable).
Amutable isn't an independent company and it won't prove Linux "can be trusted". Amutable is a Microsoft proxy. It'll pass all trust to Microsoft and put Microsoft in charge of GNU/Linux, just like the losers who promoted 'Secure Boot' and constantly attacked Microsoft critics.
See the following:
- Amutable’s Management and Founders Are 100% Microsoft!
- Amutable is a Microsoft Proxy Like Xamarin, With Some IBM/Red Hat Staff Added for Good Measure
- New Microsoft Proxy (Amutable), Microsoft Problems, Windows Problems
- Be Wary, Amutable is a Microsoft Proxy Created and Run by Microsoft Staff
From this new comment:
TPM is part of the death of open source operating systems, and that death is Microsoft's long term goal in launching Amutable.Take a look at the names again. This is most definitely the "Linux Crowd" here. It's not just Poettering but also the others there who are deployed from Microsoft.
The TPM, UEFI, and DRM is not a mistake on their part. It is a primary goal. Don't be fooled into thinking that this is a project to advance either Linux or Open Source. It's the opposite.
We saw this before with Xamarin. Microsoft recognises that for the mere glimmer or appearance of legitimacy it is better off serving itself via proxies, which seem external or independent.
Amutable is 100% reliant on Microsoft's proprietary tools (e.g. GitHub) and it's dependent on money received from Microsoft (at the very least salaries).
Do whatever is possible to avoid Amutable and its "products". Like Mono in the case of Xamarin...
As someone has just put it: "At least that is an easily avoidable Poettering product … for now."
The comment in its entirety:
At least that is an easily avoidable Poettering product … for now.I have so far managed to keep myself out of systemd-land on my desktop and my laptop. Slightly more difficult on the server side as I for simplicity use the images available from my VPS providers, and the only systemd-free product they seem to have is Windows 🙁
I do not know Poettering personally but I have met quite a few people that consider the KISS principle as only to be used by the less than averagely endowed — IQ-wise, that is.
One of the replies says:
I likewise don't know Lennart personally, but having read some of his writing, and seeing his code, he comes off an awful lot like guy I knew back in my college days: He proposed a very complicated solution to what was in fact a fairly simple problem, complete with a Three-Letter Acronym, but could neither explain the plan to anyone else nor actually make the damn thing work properly. The rest of us were successful in our ensuing group project because we simply ignored him and let him spend his time banging his head against the wall trying to make his thing work while the rest of us implemented the simple solution to the simple problem. And then he changed his major away from CS shortly after that.The one thing he does seem to be good at though is convincing suits to go along with his harebrained schemes.
One reason I think he's butted heads with Linus on several occasions is that Linus has encountered similar sorts before.
They're turning GNU/Linux into Windows, including the back doors and Microsoft being in charge. █