Summary: Richard Stallman gave this talk some years ago; meanwhile, a leading technical university got cracked due to Microsoft* and it won't dare mention the culprit
So Microsoft has dragged this university's computing environment down from world class to that of a year 2021 "Hillsdale College". To be sure, Oracle and Cisco also have their fingers in that pie and a role in the demise of the institution's role as one of the world leaders in computing. See "Our Attorney's Response To Microsoft" (posted by Roblimo) and this last article which brings up a very important point -- that Microsoft regards its contracts as trade secrets so even someone resourceful and tenacious would be unlikely to succeed in a FOIA request regarding the publicly-funded university's support contracts. Microsoft tried to censor information while crushing standards. Those institutions late in weaning themselves from Microsoft Windows can look at Samba 4 as an alternative.
For those of us who turned down those propositions there was a struggle; we needed to justify not having skinnerboxes or "social" accounts in some site run by a private company
In a lot of ways, so-called 'Vibe Coding' is already considered vapourware or a passing fad promoted in the media by managers who try to justify mass layoffs, especially ridding companies of "very expensive" software engineers
"No matter how much financial hocus-pocus they use to reclassify revenues to land in the "sexy" buckets (AI, Quantum), it still smells old and musty - just like this company."
