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Microsoft Growth Becomes Impossible to Fake
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THE rumour mill says more Microsoft layoffs will come soon (see comments from the past 24 hours).
"The Free software movement is still under attack."Anyway, this year's Microsoft is firing, not hiring. In order to fake growth they rebrand everything possible as "Azure" or "clown" while trying to buy companies which make up for revenue declines (whilst at the same time lobbying the US government for bailouts in "defence" clothing). Some of these points are explained above; they also serve to explain why Garrett continues to shill Microsoft's proprietary software, restrictions, and mass surveillance (in his blog and elsewhere; he's still tweeting for Elon Musk while branding himself "SJW").
The Free software movement is still under attack. Microsoft is shrinking, no doubt, but it is fighting us like Hell. So does Lennart Poettering, who now works for Microsoft 100% of the time (instead of IBM). In a nutshell, The Three Microsoft Stooges promote Microsoft domination over what boots on any computer, what programming tools developers may use, and what low-level system component governs the entire operating system (increasingly creeping further up the stack, too). Microsoft is infecting and then metastasising, to reuse Steve Ballmer's crude metaphor. Any time Microsoft gets smaller it is good news for GNU/Linux and Software Freedom; think of it as chemotherapy. ⬆
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