Antitrust Action Against Microsoft is Well Overdue

Dr. Roy Schestowitz

2022-07-28 07:52:40 UTC
Modified: 2022-07-28 11:09:11 UTC

Summary: The solution is to file more antitrust complaints, not simply accept Microsoft's abuses which are disguised as "security"; but Microsoft bribes Canonical to play along and push Ubuntu as "WSL", so who's going to file such complaints?

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