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Summary: "Software is eating the world," according to Marc Andreessen (co-founder of Netscape), but the Empire Strikes Back (not the movie, the actual empire) by hijacking all code by proxy, via Microsoft, just as it grabbed a lot of the world's communications via Skype, bypassing the world's many national telecoms; coders need to fight back rather than participate in racist (imperial) shams such as GitHub

IN this latest series from Dr. Andy Farnell (see this morning's installment, Peak Code — Part II) we see an interesting new framing of the exploitation of Free software by actors which this software was meant to replace. They're looking for workarounds and legal hacks by which to rob hackers. To some degree, as we cautioned some months ago, they're succeeding and Microsoft/GitHub is by far the number one threat to software freedom. It has gotten so bad that it took over the OSI and today's Linux Foundation is outsourcing almost all of its supposedly "Open Source" projects (openwashing) to Microsoft's proprietary software vault/prison.

"Who would wish to consciously participate in such a heist?"As we noted in our ongoing series (we will be publishing Microsoft GitHub Exposé — Part XVI a week late due to Monday's epic hardware crash), GPL violation en masse was part of the plan. GitHub is a massive attack (not the music group) on Free software, originally envisioned as means of detecting code defects (not licence violations) but eventually twisted into a mass plagiarism tool perfumed as "Hey Hi". As noted earlier this month, Microsoft now leverages GitHub to confiscate code, taking it away from the original coders. Who would wish to consciously participate in such a heist? Cui bono? ⬆