The Microsoft Guide to the Open Source Galaxy
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2019-05-13 04:07:18 UTC
- Modified: 2019-05-13 04:09:59 UTC
- Thou shalt not host a FOSS project outside GitHub (otherwise it won't 'count')
- Thou shalt not edit code without Visual Studio (which now has an "open" -- albeit spying and malicious -- component for openwashing purposes)
- Thou shalt not code without .NET (or Mono)
- Thou shalt not use a voting machine without Windows (we have just announced some openwashing component to make up for the NSA back doors that compromise elections worldwide)
- Thou shalt not boot GNU/Linux as a standalone operating system (UEFI might not permit this anyway, unless we sign for approval)
- Thou shalt not get get a GNU/Linux distribution outside our Store
- Thou shalt not buy a computer without Windows preinstalled; those are "naked PCs" and everyone who buys such PCs is a "pirate"
- Thou shalt not disparage or even publicly criticise our staff (that would be in violation of GitHub rules, a Code of Conduct, T&C and so on)
- Thou shalt not report back doors in our software or leak NSA tools that take advantage of these (there's a prison sentence for doing so)
- Thou shalt not write in mass media things that refute our narrative (proving that we are chronic liars); we would bribe the publication using advertising money and have you sacked
- Thou shalt not use open formats such as OpenDocument except inside Microsoft Office, which is incompatible with all other software (by design)
- Thou shalt not distribute Linux without paying Microsoft for patents; we're still suing companies (in 2019) for having the audacity to do so
- Thou shalt not host a site or a service outside Azure; we'd sic patent trolls at you
- Thou shalt not oppose Microsoft's lock-in and proprietary software shims inside Linux; we'd send our media partners (Condé Nast) to oust you, at least for a month if not permanently
- Thou shalt not report our crimes to the authorities; doing so would make you a "toxic", "intolerant" person
- Thou shalt not use the GPL unless all other options have been exhausted
- Thou shalt not adopt a Web browser other than MSIE or our rebranded Chrome, also known as Edge; we'd occasionally tinker with your computer's settings to remind you to quit using other browsers or refuse the download of such "malware"
Recent Techrights' Posts
- Another "Told You So!": XBox Mass Layoffs at Microsoft (Many Recent Reports Were Chaff and Spin), Many Other Divisions Affected
- With mass layoffs at Microsoft the world would be much better
- When the Microsoft Aggressors Rely on Several Law Firms ('Attack Dogs', 'Guns for Hire'), Not Just One, Lawyering Up Against Techrights (Acting on Behalf of Americans Against UK Publishers)
- From serving customers at some restaurant he has moved on to bullying people with demand letters
- Polygamy, from Catholic Synod on Synodality to Social Control Media & Debian CyberPolygamy
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- Only a Third of or 1 in 3 Web-Connected Devices is a Desktop or Laptop, According to statCounter
- we can expect Android to widen its lead
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- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, June 24, 2025
- IRC logs for Tuesday, June 24, 2025
- Social Control Media, Technology & Catholicism: Synod on Synodality review and feedback
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- How Many More Women Will Managers at Microsoft Strangle and Tell to Kill Themselves (or Try to Kill)?
- The world needs to know what happened
- The New BetaNews: 7 New 'Articles', All of Them LLM Slop
- BetaNews is basically defunct. Nobody writes there anymore.
- statCounter Estimates Only 1 in 300 Iranians Would Use Microsoft for Search
- Iranians don't quite trust Microsoft
- Gemini Links 24/06/2025: ftpd on FreeBSD and Online Small Web Magazine
- Links for the day
- Google News Does Great Harm by Promoting Slopfarms as Legitimate News Sites
- Slopfarms are sites which are 100% LLM slop
- Links 24/06/2025: Trouble at "Open" "AI" and ‘Siarhei is Free’
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 24/06/2025: Stimulants and Subscription Costs for DRM
- Links for the day
- Links 24/06/2025: OpenAI [sic] May Soon Die (Too Much Debt) and Social Control Media Accused of Being Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda Amplifier
- Links for the day
- Nirbheek Chauhan in Planet GNOME Explains Why Wayland Pushers Are Losing
- "A strange game. The only winning move is not to play."
- The Days Are Getting Shorter, the First Half of 2025 is Almost Over
- We're gratified to see significant increase in traffic and also positive feedback on the work we do
- Turning GNU/Linux Into a Political Football
- X (not the site) is Free software
- X Server Still Works for Many People
- A lot of people will grow suspicious of Wayland boosters/pushers if they persist and insist on using these tactics
- Exactly a Week Ago "BetaNews Staff" Said "Betanews Is Growing Alongside You". Since Then Every Article (All by "Camila Nogueira") Has Been LLM Slop.
- BetaNews is basically a slopfarm
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Monday, June 23, 2025
- IRC logs for Monday, June 23, 2025
- The "Tarzan Effect" in Compilers and Software
- What happens when you forcibly make things 'work', either by hacks or by disregarding warnings (like those that compilers tend to issue)?
- Gemini Links 23/06/2025: Mass Tourism, Hair Love, and Google Gemini as a Googlebomb
- Links for the day
- Law Firm Burgess Mee Does Not Fully Deny Participating in Abusive Litigation for Serial Strangler From Microsoft
- I am not unfamiliar with these tactics
- The Modus Operandi of Wayland Pushers: Make It Political
- do what I say or you're a nazi...
- Links 23/06/2025: RFE/RL Contributor Vladyslav Yesypenko Released, Recording Industry Cutbacks
- Links for the day
- Brett Wilson LLP Solicitors (M): Over 99.9% of Our E-mail is Self-Marketing, We Send You 3.5MB E-mails for Less Than 1KB of Text
- Why would tech people entrust legal matters to such people?
- Peter Moon's (Computerworld) Interview With Richard Stallman
- Stallman: If you want freedom don't follow Linus Torvalds
- At What Point Does Outsourcing Constitute Malpractice?
- Brett Wilson LLP's new staff page is misleading
- United Arab Emirates (UAE) Sailing to GNU/Linux, According to statCounter
- countries in that region will quickly learn the price of neglecting digital sovereignty
- From Do Your Own Research to Do Your Own Search
- The Web is full of garbage; search engines amplify this garbage
- More People Moving to Geminispace?
- at age 6+ Gemini Protocol seems to have gained some maturity and it seems like more people use it
- Permutation in LLMs Does, Inevitably, Change Meanings and Therefore LLMs Cannot Properly Rephrase or Summarise Texts
- LLMs lack actual grasp or comprehension of what they spew out
- Links 23/06/2025: Many Security Breaches, Population Declines
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 23/06/2025: "America at the Crossroads" and OpenWRT Surgery
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Sunday, June 22, 2025
- IRC logs for Sunday, June 22, 2025
- Pure Dove
- Different means different, and sometimes those who "deviate" from "the norm" have a point
- Censorship is a Sign of Weakness Which Invites More Censorship Attempts
- revolutionaries don't succumb to pressure from bullies
- Why It's Unlikely That LLM Slop Will Dominate the Web in the Long Run
- Slopfarms will eventually perish (they have no actual value) and "survivors" on the Web will be sites that never depended on search engines and social control media
- GNU/Linux in Argentina Now Measured Near 5%
- Like in central Europe, they must be seeing an increasingly hostile US
- BetaNews is Fake News, Composed by LLM Slop
- nothing in BetaNews is written by humans anymore
