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Microsoft Management Contacted Sirius Open Source CEO to Complain About My Writings in Techrights Years Before Bill Gates Paid Him

Video download link | md5sum 0b5cee9f48792260e28e59272e7fbb14 The Very Ugly Collapse of Sirius Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0



Summary: The Sirius 'Open Source' series is now dealing with the more interesting "stories from the trenches"; with over 20,000 views of the Wiki alone after less than 40 days (see above) it seems clear that people are interested in the 21 years of experience my wife and I had inside a company that claims to be "Open Source" (things changed for the worse, so we must investigate/examine why, knowing this can happen to other companies including large ones such as Red Hat)

THIS week the series entered its final phase. We shall be gathering remaining material/stories and explain them in a more generalised context, seeing that some readers (whom we heard from) experienced similar things in present or past workplaces. There are things here that people can relate to even if they worked for other companies in other countries.



"Funny how Microsoft likes to complain about you behind your back... to your boss."Some time this month we shall cover a likely illegal contract-signing 'ceremony' and explain the context of Sirius 'expanding' to the US (because it was failing in the UK and the marriage of the CEO was collapsing). The above video explains how both my wife and I were being bullied by management just weeks or at most a month after a shell was created in the US after the Gates Foundation had secretly (under NDA) offered money to the CEO. Only a few years prior to that he told me (face to face in Alton Towers) that Microsoft had contacted him over the phone to complain about me (regarding things I wrote in Techrights). Funny how Microsoft likes to complain about you behind your back... to your boss. I only found out and wrote about it years later. It was risky to even mention this, but I did it anyway.

Therer's a lot more information in the above video -- stuff that wasn't covered in the text earlier on. We're far from done here and there's still an ongoing fact-finding investigation. ⬆

"Those with long memories might suggest a parallel between Rick’s position and mine when in 1997, I was sitting on the XML Working Group and co-editing the spec, on a pro bono basis as an indie consultant. Netscape hired me to represent their interests, and when I announced this, controversy ensued. Which is a nice way of saying that Microsoft went berserk; tried unsuccessfully to get me fired as co-editor, and then launched a vicious, deeply personal extended attack in which they tried to destroy my career and took lethal action against a small struggling company because my wife worked there. It was a sideshow of a sideshow of the great campaign to bury Netscape and I’m sure the executives have forgotten; but I haven’t."

--Tim Bray



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