Summary: Times are changing in all sorts of ways; it seems like GNU/Linux and other Free/libre operating systems may emerge as winners when the 'dust settles'
THE night was young
GNU had been hung
They told us it was fine
For serenades that Microsoft had sung
An epidemic struck
It wasn't bad luck
They said it was a "plandemic"
People are as crazy as fuck
Microsoft layoffs ensued
A year after Linux it had sued
But GitHub still wooed
Offering 'free' food
Society may never be the same
To work from home we now tame
Forget about open office fame
Glass and metal cages were all along a sham
Travel is now a luxury
For those who can withstand scarred lungs
Conferences now mean a webstream
No handshakes, no hugs
2020 -- a heck of year!
Bushfires, plane crashes, and WW3 fear
Free software persisted
Coders gone code
The cause prevailed
But it felt rather odd
IIS is dying
Edge is crying
Stores are dead as nobody's buying
Surely the chairs are also flying! ⬆
"I have never, honestly, thrown a chair in my life."
Yesterday we read that it was quite cruel how IBM (or Red Hat) compelled staff to pretend to be happily leaving or "retiring" when the reality was, they had been pushed out with some "package"
If patent law had been applied to novels in the 1880s, great books would not have been written. If the EU applies it to software, every computer user will be restricted, says Richard Stallman
So the real extent of layoffs is greater than what's publicly stated (there are silent layoffs) [...] Whatever IBM says about the scope, scale, or magnitude of the "RAs", it doesn't tell the full story
This is a real problem and most certainly a big problem because when people try to find real information about security and GNU/Linux they instead read "word salads" made by bots
