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The GNU/Linux Community Feels Increasingly Isolated, Homeless and Orphaned in a New Age of Corporate Takeovers

Microsoft loves Linux, I don't think so



Summary: The corporate slogans and lies that are tossed about by corporate media remain as unconvincing as ever (no matter their repetition's frequency); GNU/Linux is being raided

I HAVE BEEN USING GNU/Linux since I was a teenager. The last Windows version I had was Windows 98. When I 'joined' the 'Linux' community and developed software with GTK it was a job to me. The software was GPL-licensed. It was made available to all on my Web site and on SourceForge. 18 years later there's hardly a SourceForge (it's a shadow of its former self), a lot of Free software is controlled by Microsoft because it bought the largest Git repository, and as we noted in the previous post about the Linux Foundation (LF), Microsoft and IBM "Linux" is gradually becoming something else. The FSF is no longer RMS (albeit RMS insists he's still in charge of the GNU project) and Torvalds doesn't seem to be in charge of Linux.



"To put it simply if not bluntly, Linux is now owned and controlled by few large corporations."What on Earth is going on? My job is still technical and some clients compel us to put code under a Microsoft site (GitHub). All their systems use systemd, which from a technical point of view appears to offer little or no advantage (except Red Hat IBM control over copyrights and development).

To put it simply if not bluntly, Linux is now owned and controlled by few large corporations. The fight to do the same to GNU is still ongoing. So what have we all worked and campaigned for? Is our work being 'stolen' by billionaires, who try to strip off or weaken the GPL?

We sure live in confusing times.

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