Working on "Linux", But on Microsoft's Payroll
Earlier this year: Amutable’s Management and Founders Are 100% Microsoft!
A reader has alerted us about "EEE, decommodification a la The Halloween Documents [ESR], [and] openwashing (of systemd)" in relation to the following new reply to Martin Steigerwald, which said:
In another life, I landed a job maintaining 60+ PCs at a ministry within the local federal government.
Some were purchased with late edition W95 and the rest with first edition W98 pre-installed and I dealt with both the OS and new hardware / peripherals as replacements were purchased as well as a file server.
The one thing that has always stayed with me (idiot users being another subject altogether) is how the MS registry ended up being what most issues/problems gave me, sometimes on a daily basis.
Obscure, undocumented, changing at every upgrade. Tech suppoert from MS? Yes, I had heard of it.
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TL;DR:
systemd is nothing but a tool developed by L. Poettering to slowly but steadily infiltrate, control and eventually crush the Linux ecosystem as we know it.This is being achieved via one of the arguably most important distributions (Debian) and will eventually result in its becoming a faint memory of what it once was. ie: just collateral damage
I strongly suspect that L. Poettering has been working for MS for much longer than it is known.
Under the totally false guise of "security" those same people are now promoting TPMs and other horrible things, boosted by Microsoft's partner-in-DRM, IBM. It's not about security but about control - control by American companies over all computers and all computer users worldwide.
People who say that they care about "security" while pushing this agenda are like countries that say they bomb countries "for peace". █