Microsoft ââ¬â¹Cyanogen Hires 'Former' Microsoft Chief Technology Officer (of Google Competitor)
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2015-07-10 11:22:48 UTC
- Modified: 2015-07-10 11:22:48 UTC
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Summary: ââ¬â¹Cyanogen continues to expose itself for what it really is and who it is serving, owing to staff background
MICROSOFT took over not only Nokia, inciting it to attack Android (Nokia now attacks Android using patents) but also Cyanogen, the company whose agenda seems to now closely align with Microsoft's. Many of its employees are based near Microsoft, but that's not too shocking. It puts the NSA's leading partner (Microsoft) right at the centre of AOSP whilst smearing Google, which developed AOSP and gave it away as Free software. We previously covered this in posts such as:
Microsoft's proxy ââ¬â¹Cyanogen has just hired Microsoft's Lawler, based on
this article. What a surprise? Not! To quote
CBS ZDNet: "Formerly Lawler was also chief technology officer of Microsoft's Bing Maps..."
Microsoft's strategy against Android has become utterly ugly as
it includes patent extortion. Some of the media tries to nevertheless characterise Microsoft as a friend of Free software. The latest example
is Windows (proprietary) promotion by payments to OpenBSD -- a move that is
criticised by FOSS Force, which says: "Of course, it isn’t revealed how much, in code, Microsoft is going to contribute going forward, but as long as the money is there…I guess the money is there."
Microsoft keeps trying to use its money to disrupt Free software projects. It did this in 2006 with Novell (a GNU/Linux actor at the time) and it is still doing that with other companies or nonprofit entities. Cyanogen is one of these and OpenBSD hopefully has the moral strength to bite the new hand that feeds.
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