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-	*[https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2023/02/03/sirius-pensions-gone/ https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2023/02/03/sirius-pensions-gone/] (personal site)
	*[http://techrights.org/2023/02/03/collapse-of-sirius/ The Collapse of Sirius in a Nutshell: How to Identify the Symptoms and Decide When to Leave]		*[http://techrights.org/2023/02/03/collapse-of-sirius/ The Collapse of Sirius in a Nutshell: How to Identify the Symptoms and Decide When to Leave]
	*[https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2023/02/03/issues-at-sirius-open-source/ Summary of the Issues at Sirius Open Source] (personal site)		*[https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2023/02/03/issues-at-sirius-open-source/ Summary of the Issues at Sirius Open Source] (personal site)
		+	*[http://techrights.org/2023/02/03/to-quote-final-letter/ Sirius Finished]
		+	*[https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2023/02/03/sirius-pensions-gone/ Sirius Over, But Where Have the Pensions Gone?] (personal site)
	== Company Timeline ==		== Company Timeline ==

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Revision as of 07:09, 3 February 2023

Sirius Open Source (SIRIUS OPEN SOURCE LTD, company number 11014042) is introduced and explained in a series that chronicles its transition from hero to zero. The company is not likely to last long, so the reasons for its fall need to be properly documented and lessons hopefully learned by other companies.

The sections and articles below are split accordingly, usually in no particular order except chronologically.

Contents 1 Articles 1.1 Departure Message 1.2 Pre-Departure 1.3 Summary 2 Company Timeline 2.1 Videos 2.1.1 Immoral Clientele 2.1.2 Month in Review 2.1.3 Misleading Name 2.1.4 Secrecy 2.1.5 De Facto Gag Orders 2.1.6 Legal Breaches 2.1.7 Financial Woes 2.1.8 Dishonesty 2.1.9 Insecurity 2.1.10 Selling Everything Away 2.1.11 Underpaid Workers 2.1.12 Inflation at 0% 2.1.13 Pressure to Lie 2.1.14 Brain Drain 2.1.15 Financial Sink 2.1.16 Unqualified Management 2.1.17 Shell Companies 2.1.18 Ignoring Security Breaches 2.1.19 Aggression Against Staff's Rights 2.1.20 Lying About History 2.1.21 Data Breaches Impacting Clients 2.1.22 Truth Isn't an Option 2.1.23 More Shell Games? 2.1.24 Surveillance Outside Work 2.1.25 Kakistocracy in Chief 2.1.26 Unpaid Bills 2.1.27 Abandoning Reality 2.1.28 Staff Has No Rights 2.1.29 Dividing the Staff 2.1.30 Company's Mission Abandoned 2.1.31 Hopping Between Shells 2.2 Reports 2.2.1 A Decent Start 2.2.2 Supporting Community 2.2.3 Attacking the Messengers 2.2.4 Attacking Disabled People 2.2.5 Ignoring the Law 2.2.6 Scapegoating 2.2.7 Cover-up 2.2.8 Security Never a Priority 2.2.9 No Sovereignty 2.2.10 Systems Gone Away 2.2.11 Same Salary in 2022 as in 2011 2.2.12 Workers Bear All the Costs 2.2.13 Dishonesty and Cover-up at the Top 2.2.14 Lazy Management 2.2.15 Abuse Towards Staff 2.2.16 Very Deep in Debt 2.2.17 Witch-hunts by Managers 2.2.18 Health Toll 2.2.19 Security Breaches Upstream, Too 2.2.20 Intolerance of Criticism 2.2.21 Culture of Exploitation 2.2.22 Circling Down the Drain 2.2.23 Aftermath of Security Breaches 2.2.24 False Accusations, Framing People 2.2.25 Fit-up and Cover-up 2.2.26 Breaking Laws 2.2.27 No Hiring Process 2.2.28 Lying to Clients 2.2.29 Imposters as Leaders 2.2.30 Passing the Costs the Others 2.2.31 Exploiting Uncharted Legal Territories 2.2.32 Devaluation of the Workforce 2.2.33 Pretence of Compliance 2.2.34 Summary and Complete Report 3 Attempts to Censor Facts 3.1 Bribery or Lies 3.2 Gagging Former Staff 4 Anatomy of a Corporate Witch-Hunt 4.1 A Need to Deflect 4.2 Picking Scapegoats 4.3 Manufacturing 'Cases' 5 Stories From the Trenches 5.1 Failure to Pay Suppliers 5.2 Waste of Money, Loss of Control 5.3 Severance Dodged 5.4 Bullying and NDAs 5.5 Relatives of Managers, Not Suitably Qualified/Trained Staff 5.6 Privatised Workforce 5.7 Dysfunctional 'Justice' System 5.8 Powerless Technical Staff 5.9 Going Sketchy 5.10 Rogue Contract-Signing 5.11 Hiding the Abuse (Non-Disclosure Agreements) 5.12 Fake Compliance as a Weapon 5.13 A Shift to Proprietary Software 6 Shorts 6.1 Memes and Graphics 6.1.1 Immoral Practices 6.1.2 Cliques, Not Colleagues 6.1.3 "It Came From Above..." 6.1.4 Poor Leadership 6.1.5 Chronic Dishonesty 6.1.6 Exploitation and Isolation 6.1.7 ISOlation and ISO Fakery 6.1.8 Financial Issues 6.1.9 Disregard for Free Speech 6.1.10 Systems Malfunctioning 6.2 Reality Checks 6.2.1 Web Site Faking Company Size 6.2.2 Lack of Resources 6.2.3 Social Media 6.2.4 By the Few 6.2.5 Creating Shells to Dodge Liabilities 6.2.6 Misleading Marketing 6.2.7 Microsoft and Bill Gates Intervening

Articles

Departure Message

• Sirius Open Source is No Longer Open Source and It’s Simply Unethical to Stay There
• The Company Where I've Worked for Nearly 12 Years Went Rogue and Earlier This Year I Decided to Leave (personal site)

Pre-Departure

• Entering Phase Two of Life

Summary

• The Collapse of Sirius in a Nutshell: How to Identify the Symptoms and Decide When to Leave
• Summary of the Issues at Sirius Open Source (personal site)
• Sirius Finished
• Sirius Over, But Where Have the Pensions Gone? (personal site)

Company Timeline

Videos

Immoral Clientele

• The Morality of Your Clients and Suppliers Should Matter (It No Longer Matters in Sirius 'Open Source')
• Resigning Was the Belated and Necessary Moral Choice (personal site)

Month in Review

• A December Series About the Demise of Sirius 'Open Source'
• Conflicts Inside Sirius Open Source (personal site)

Misleading Name

• Dishonest Companies Disguised as 'Open Source' (After Abandoning It)
• A Fake Company of Fake Size (personal site)]

Secrecy

• When a Company Simply Refuses to Talk to Technical and Exerienced Staff Through Internal Avenues
• Sirius Open Source Operating in the Dark (personal site)

De Facto Gag Orders

• Sirius Not-So-‘Open Source’: Cannot Talk to Colleagues, Cannot Speak About Work
• Lies at Sirius Open Source (personal site)

Legal Breaches

• Sirius ‘Open Source’ Failing at the Most Basic Employment Regulations
• When It Comes to Payslips, Sirius ‘Open Source’ Broke Labour Regulations (personal site)

Financial Woes

• Sirius ‘Open Source’ and the Money Missing From the Pension
• Sirius Corporation Threatened With Fines and Penalties for Pension Issues (personal site)

Dishonesty

• Cannot Trust Anything Management at Sirius ‘Open Source’ Ever Says
• When Colleagues Lie to Clients (Sirius Corporation) (personal site)

Insecurity

• Security First? Not a Chance!
• Security Problems at Sirius ‘Open Source’ (personal site)

Selling Everything Away

• Turning a Company With an Office Into Merely an Account in Another Country
• Almost Nothing Left of Sirius ‘Open Source’ (personal site)

Underpaid Workers

• Sirius Open Source or Foxconn? Can't Speak, Can't Ask for Rights and Better Pay (Salary Lowered Every Year, Some Payments Missed).
• Sirius Open Source and Its Money Problem (personal site)

Inflation at 0%

• Oppressing and Grossly Underpaying Sirius Staff (Not the ‘Open Source’ Spirit, or Is It?)
• ‘Open Source’ Does Not Mean Pay Minimum Wage (personal site)

Pressure to Lie

• Won't Work for Liars Anymore (Enough is Enough)
• Don't Work for Companies That 'Normalise' Dishonesty (personal site)

Brain Drain

• Sirius Could Not 'Manage' Its Way Out of Disaster; Instead It Bullied and Drove Away Important Staff
• Sirius Drove Out the Staff (personal site)

Financial Sink

• Financial State of Sirius ‘Open Source’ Has Not Been Good for Years
• Sirius Open Source Probably Insolvent (personal site)

Unqualified Management

• Sirius ‘Open Source’: Where Babysitters and Secretaries/Personal Assistants Can Miraculously Become Managers (and Fail at It Really Badly)
• When Your Boss is Literally a Babysitter (personal site)

Shell Companies

• This Shell Game Gives 'Open Source' a Bad Name (personal site)
• There Are Now at Least Three ‘Shell Companies’ for Sirius ‘Open Source’ (personal site)

Ignoring Security Breaches

• Employers Should Not Berate and Blackmail Staff Into Abandoning Security and Privacy
• How Sirius Open Source Turned From a Company Into Just an Account (personal site)

Aggression Against Staff's Rights

• Human Resources (HR) as Pretext and Weapon Against Staff
• Sirius ‘Open Source’ Self-Nuked With an External Human Resources (HR) Firm (personal site)

Lying About History

• Sirius Open Source Based on a Lie (Told by Its Fake Non-Founder)
• Sirius Originally Registered in Greater Manchester (personal site)

Data Breaches Impacting Clients

• LastPassing the Liability During Holidays
• LastPass Data Breach a Last Straw for Sirius 'Open Source' (personal site)

Truth Isn't an Option

• When Dishonesty Becomes Mandatory and Cover-up Obligatory
• Sirius Open Source Compels Staff to Lie (personal site)

More Shell Games?

• Sirius Corporation's Annual Report and Unaudited Financial Statements Released a Day Before Christmas Eve
• Sirius Corporation and Debt-Dodging or Liability Evasion (personal site)

Surveillance Outside Work

• Frivolous Harassment and Surveillance Instead of Serving Clients
• Muck-raking by Sirius ‘Open Source’ (personal site)

Kakistocracy in Chief

• When Companies Are Kinship Cliques That Refuse to Listen to Technical Staff
• Sirius Corporation: A 'Tech' Company Run by Non-Technical People (personal site)

Unpaid Bills

• Symptoms of an Impending Bankruptcy?
• Sirius Implosion: The Signs Are There Already (personal site)

Abandoning Reality

• When Lies Prevail It's Time to Leave the Company
• Lying as Cultural Norm at Sirius Open Source (personal site)

Staff Has No Rights

• Sirius Open Source Uses ‘Privacy’ as a Weapon Against Truth-tellers (Can’t Speak Outside Work, Always Hush-Hush)
• Staff Without Rights, Staff Without a Voice (personal site)

Dividing the Staff

• When Talking About Wrongdoing is Considered Impressible
• Is Truth/Honesty Worse Than Wrongdoing? (personal site)

Company's Mission Abandoned

• When You Realise That Your Employer Not Only Abandons Free Software But is Also Becoming Truly Dodgy (and Starts Taking Money From Bill Gates Under a Non-Disclosure Agreement)
• Sirius Corporation Was Never the Same After Bill Gates Gave Money to the Boss Through a Newly-Created Shell in the US (First Client, Deal Signed Under a Non-Disclosure Agreement!) (personal site)

Hopping Between Shells

• Sirius Open Source Inc. Can't Handle the Truth
• The Shell Game of Sirius Open Source Inc.

Reports

A Decent Start

• The Fall of Sirius Open Source: How a Leader and FSF Sponsor (for Multiple Years) Became an Abject Failure
• Sirius Open Source Explained (personal site)

Supporting Community

• Sirius 'Open Source' When It Actually Understood and Respected Software Freedom
• The Old Sirius 'Open Source' Was a Patron (Sponsor) of KDE and FSF (personal site)

Attacking the Messengers

• Sirius Open Source: The Home of Stress and Bullying by Management
• Chronic Abuse in Sirius Open Source Ltd. (personal site)

Attacking Disabled People

• That Time Sirius 'Open Source' Fired a Blind Lady While Gagging Sympathetic Staff
• Sirius Open Source Has Long Been Blind to Criticism (personal site)

Ignoring the Law

• Sirius ‘Open Source’: When the Company Stops Paying Your Pension and You Don't Know Until the Pension Provider Keeps Sending Physical Post to Alert You
• Pension Blunders at Sirius ‘Open Source’ (personal site)

Scapegoating

• Code of Conduct-Like Culture at Sirius ‘Open Source’ (Managers Never Held Accountable for Anything, Other Staff Blamed for Management's Failures)
• Managing or Bullying Staff at Sirius ‘Open Source'? (personal site)

Cover-up

• Lack of Principles and a Lack of Honesty at Sirius ‘Open Source’ (Which Was Gradually Moving Away From Open Source)
• Sirius Corporation's Openwashing (personal site)

Security Never a Priority

• Sirius Open SORES: There's a Lot More to Security and Privacy Than Namedropping (e.g. 'ISO' and 'GDPR')
• Patching My Work PC (at Sirius Open Source) ‘Absolutely Unacceptable’? (personal site)

No Sovereignty

• Sirius Open Source: Secure Only 'on Paper'
• Pay Sirius Coporation, Get GAFAM Instead (personal site)

Systems Gone Away

• Sirius 'Open Source' Moved From Hosting Its Own (and Sometimes Clients') Servers to Outsourcing to Another Country, Sometimes With Proprietary Software
• When Your Company is Outsourcing Almost Everything (personal site)

Same Salary in 2022 as in 2011

• The Time Sirius Didn’t Cover Expenses for Journeys
• Sirius Open Source Isn't Sirius About Paying a Living Wage (personal site)

Workers Bear All the Costs

• Sirius Open Source: Buy Your Own Desk, Bring/Buy Your Own Device (BYOD), Repair and Maintain Your Computer at Your Own Expense and Time
• Sirius Open Source Passes All Costs to Staff, No Salary Increase in 12 Years (personal site)

Dishonesty and Cover-up at the Top

• Sirius ‘Open Source’: Lying to Its Own Clients and Failing to Meet SLAs
• Lying to Paying Clients, Not Just to Staff (personal site)

Lazy Management

• Sirius ‘Open Source’: Managers Who Stalk the Staff All Day Long (Even Outside Work!) Instead of Managing Clients' Projects and Doing Their Real Job
• Sirius ‘Open Source’ Managers Sitting on Their Hands While Moaning About Workers (personal site)

Abuse Towards Staff

• Sirius Open Source: The Brain Drain Begins
• Sirius Open Source: The Brain Drain Started Years Ago (personal site)

Very Deep in Debt

• Sirius ‘Open Source’: Dire Financial State, Always Shooting the Messengers
• Sirius Open Source Sinking in Debt (personal site)

Witch-hunts by Managers

• Sirius ‘Open Source’: Grievance Letters and Complaints About Bullying by Management (2019)
• Sirius ‘Open Source’ Bullies Geeks (personal site)

Health Toll

• Sirius ‘Open Source’ Bad for People's Health
• Staff Suffered Health Problems Due to Bullying by Management at Sirius ‘Open Source’ (personal site)

Security Breaches Upstream, Too

• Sirius ‘Open Source’ Outsourcing Confidential Information to Spying Companies in Another Continent
• In Sirius Open Source You Get Told Off — and Even Threatened! — for Minding Security and Privacy (personal site)

Intolerance of Criticism

• The Demolition Person at Sirius ‘Open Source’
• Big Egos Ruin Small Company (personal site)

Culture of Exploitation

• Sirius a One-Way Relationship (or a Three-Way Relationship at the Top)
• Exploiting and Attacking the Messengers (personal site)

Circling Down the Drain

• Sirius ‘Open Source’ Run Like a Failing Donald Trump Enterprise (in Debt and Faking It)
• Too Late to Save Sirius Open Source (personal site)

Aftermath of Security Breaches

• LastPass Breach and More Collaterals, Beyond LastPass: How Sirius 'Open Source' Causes Security *[Headaches/Breaches for Clients (Without Even Telling Them!)
• The Massive LastPass Breach Vindicates Me (personal site)

False Accusations, Framing People

• Short-Term CEO at Sirius ‘Open Source’ Pretending to be Private Investigator, Falsely Accusing People in a Vindictive Fashion
• Sirius ‘Open Source’ Stalking Staff Outside of Work (personal site)

Fit-up and Cover-up

• Witch-hunts Backfiring: Koala Charities Leveraged by Sirius ‘Open Source’ as a Weapon Against the Innocent (When Koalas Die in Wildfires)
• The Fit-up Job at Sirius ‘Open Source’ (personal site)

Breaking Laws

• Corporate Bullying Disguised as Mannerism and Professionalism
• Sirius ‘Open Source’ Disregards the Rule of Law and Human Rights (personal site)

No Hiring Process

• Tribalism at Sirius ‘Open Source’
• A Toxic Company of Bedroom Politics (personal site)

Lying to Clients

• Kangaroo Courts Against Voices of Morality (and of Compliance With Laws) at Sirius ‘Open Source’
• Lies as Standard Business Practice (personal site)

Imposters as Leaders

• Kakistocracy at Sirius ‘Open Source’: Running the Company Like a 'Hobby', Perpetually and Shamelessly by Hobbyist and Absent 'Management'
• A Company That Suffocates Its Staff Like Sarin Gas (personal site)

Passing the Costs the Others

• “Successful Bankruptcy”: Management Running the Company… Into the Ground
• When Pathological Liars Run a Company (personal site)

Exploiting Uncharted Legal Territories

• Sirius ‘Open Source’ Abuses Grey Areas
• How Far Can a Company Push Workplace Regulations? (personal site)

Devaluation of the Workforce

• Sirius ‘Open Source’ Has Turned Workers Into Serfs/Slaves and Technical Work Into 'Bullshit Jobs'
• Isolated and Gagged Workers at Sirius ‘Open Source’ (personal site)

Pretence of Compliance

• Sirius ‘Open Source’ Misleading the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) on Security
• When ISO Becomes Meaningless Paperwork (personal site)

Summary and Complete Report

• Full Report on Sirius ‘Open Source’ Inc./Limited/Corporation
• Sirius Open Source Inc. as a Rogue Shell of a Failing Company (personal site)

Attempts to Censor Facts

Bribery or Lies

• Sirius Management Either Trying to Bribe Us (for Censorship) or Lying to Us, Thereby Profoundly Damaging the Company
• Sirius Bribing, Lying, or Both (in an Effort to Silence Disgruntled Staff) (personal site)

Gagging Former Staff

• Sirius Management Has Run Out of Feet to Shoot (It Keeps Getting Worse With Each Redundant Letter Sent to Former Staff)
• Sirius Open Source Inc. (US) Against the First Amendment (personal site)

Anatomy of a Corporate Witch-Hunt

A Need to Deflect

• When the Employer Becomes an Egoistic Stalker
• How an Informal IRC Chat Became 'Evidence', Even When Nobody Was Named (personal site)
• Truth Hurts: Colleagues Sleeping With the Support Manager at Sirius Open Source Inc.
• When the 'Issue' is People Who Speak About the Real Issue
• Shooting the Messenger to Spite the Message (personal site)

Picking Scapegoats

• When the Employer Becomes a Liar and a Bully
• Picking on the Wife to Hurt a Critic (personal site)
• When the Employer Asks for 'Cool-off' After Attacking Innocent Staff (Which Backfires)
• The Existential Mistake of Sirius Open Source: Attacking Innocent Workforce (personal site)
• When the Employer Starts Acting Like an Obsessive and Jealous Ex-Boyfriend
• Stalking of Staff and 'Fisher Price' Letters (personal site)

Manufacturing 'Cases'

• When the Employer Conflates a Two-Person Chat Outside Work With a Completely Unrelated Party
• Intimidating Spouses to Hurt Company Staff (personal site)
• The Original Sin: When the Employer Lies About Clients in Order to Justify a Fishing Expedition and Openly Start a Witch-hunt
• Commencing a Witch-hunt Based on False Pretences (personal site)
• When the Employer Doesn't Grasp the Simple Fact That Lies Come Back at You (and Lying to Clients or Staff is a Very Bad Idea)
• A Culture of False Pretences at Sirius Open Source Inc./Ltd. (personal site)

Stories From the Trenches

Failure to Pay Suppliers

• When the Employer Doesn't Pay the Bills, So Customers Suffer Outages/Downtimes, Repeatedly Even
• Lying to Clients is Crossing a Line (personal site)
• Like Elon Musk at Twitter, Sirius is Passing Financial Liabilities to Suppliers by Not Paying (Sirius Clients Suffer as a Result)
• Sirius Open Source Inc. Shuffling Between Credit Cards to Barely Pay Bills (personal site)

Waste of Money, Loss of Control

• When the Employer Doesn’t Understand or Grossly Underestimates AWS Capacity Issues (and a Story of Lost E-mail in Clown Computing)
• Sirius 'Open Source' Wasting Almost 10,000 Pounds a Year on Hosting (That Could Cost Under 1,000 Pounds) (personal site)
• Sirius 'Open Source': Let's Waste 50,000+ British Pounds on Amazon 'Clown' Bills Even Though We Already Have Our Very Own Servers and Racks
• AWS Has Only Harmed Sirius (Financially at Least) (personal site)

Severance Dodged

• How Sirius Fell Deeply Into Debt and Split Itself Up Into Several Shells (Sirius Open Source Ltd., Open Source Inc., Corporation)
• Sirius Open Source Ltd. Has Found Excuses to Avoid Paying Severance (personal site)

Bullying and NDAs

• Microsoft Management Contacted Sirius Open Source CEO to Complain About My Writings in Techrights Years Before Bill Gates Paid Him
• Getting Bullied by Management After Gates Foundation Pays Your Employer (personal site)

Relatives of Managers, Not Suitably Qualified/Trained Staff

• Overt Nepotism at Sirius: Not a New Problem
• Sirius Staff: Managers' Relatives Who Don't Even Show Up on Time (Won't Apologise and Won't Get Punished, Either) (personal site)
• Nepotism Ruins Otherwise Good Companies, Even Free/Open Source Software Companies
• How the 'Family Business' Mindset of Sirius Brought in Unqualified Workers (personal site)
• Overt Nepotism at Sirius: A Fish Rots From the Head Down
• Sirius Open Source: Company Used to be Run by a Couple (personal site)
• Sirius in the Era of 'Husband and Wife' (or CEO and Director)
• Sirius Died With the CEO's Marriage (personal site)

Privatised Workforce

• When the Employer Asks for Help or Personal Favours Outside Work (and Staff Cannot Politely Decline Because of the Salary)
• Family Assistant or Sirius Engineer? Can't Be Both. (personal site)
• Favours in the Workplace: Employing Someone and the Strict Boundaries of Contracts
• Doing the Boss Favours (personal site)

Dysfunctional 'Justice' System

• Distortion of Timelines and Chronic Cover-up at Sirius 'Open Source'
• Sirius Blunder: The Phone Does Not Work and There Are No Instructions (personal site)
• Arrogant Management Won't Admit Its Mistakes and Sometimes Take the Mistakes Even Further to 'Prove' It Was 'Right' All Along
• Bosses That Never Admit Mistakes (personal site)
• Comparing Technical Staff to Monkeys and Treating Them as Such
• Network Operations Centre Staff Isn’t ‘Monkeys’ (personal site)
• When the Employer Doesn’t Value the Staff and the Wishes/Advice From Staff
• Employer That Treats Staff Like Idiots (personal site)

Powerless Technical Staff

• Sirius and the Straw Man
• No Trade Union at Sirius 'Open Source' and No Respect for Unions, Either (personal site)
• Sirius 'Open Source' Needed a Staff Union to Save the Company From Abusive, Corrupt Management
• At Sirius ‘Open Source’ the Staff Became Voiceless (personal site)

Going Sketchy

• How Carbon Accounting Became a Cover for Fast-Languishing Sirius Open Source Ltd.
• Sirius 'Open Source' Operating Like Rogue Business (personal site)
• Go West or Go Rogue? Sirius is Finished/Broke.
• Gates Foundation Flew My Employer to ‘Die’ in America (personal site)

Rogue Contract-Signing

• Sirius With Its Likely Illegal Contract-Signing for a Company Worth One Pound
• When Sirius Split Into 3 Companies (or Shells) Without Telling Staff (personal site)
• Everything Went to **** When Sirius Moved to the Same State as Microsoft (After Bill Gates Had Paid Sirius CEO)
• A Deadly Trap of Secret Contracts at Sirius Corporation (personal site)
• Sirius ‘Open Source’ Management Lies to All the Technical Staff to Trap Workers in a New Contract a Month Before Creating a Shell in the US for Bill Gates
• Likely Illegal Contract-Signing at Sirius Corporation (personal site)
• Sirius 'Open Source' Truly Rogue Since 2019 (Deceiving Everyone, Even Its Own Staff)
• Lying Became the Norm at Sirius 'Open Source' Incorporated/Limited (personal site)

Hiding the Abuse (Non-Disclosure Agreements)

• Example of Sirius Management Abusing Technical Staff That is Ill (Working in Spite of Sickness)
• Sirius 'Open Source' Bullying Its Own Staff (personal site)
• Sirius 'Open Source' a Victim of Mismanagement and Sellout
• Non-Disclosure Agreements Are Typically Bribes (personal site)

Fake Compliance as a Weapon

• The ISO Delusion: How Sirius Picked Collaboration/Communication Tools That Harm Staff, Harm the Company, and Harm Its Clients
• Sirius Sends All Its Data to American Firms (Even Clients' Passwords and Private Keys) (personal site)
• ISO Reality: The 'Security' Certifications Are Meaningless (Paid-for Papers)
• ISO Certificates Are Junk (and Sirius Proves This) (personal site)
• Sirius Lying About ISO to Justify Giving the Technical Staff Some Classic 'Bullshit Jobs' While Censoring/Covering Up Incompetence
• Misusing 'ISO' to Abuse Your Staff (personal site)
• The ISO Train Wreck at Sirius 'Open Source'
• How to Buy ISO Certification (It's Easy!) (personal site)
• The Inside(r) Story of ISO 'Certification' Mills
• International Organization for Standardization is an Elaborate Scam (personal site)
• The ISO Delusion: Sirius Open Wash Ltd. and Medical Data/Projects at Risk/Peril
• International Organization for Standardization (ISO) Certification Does Not Assure Anything (personal site)
• ISO Certification Hardly Tackles Any of the Real Issues
• ISO Certificates Are Like NFTs (Worthless Junk) (personal site)

A Shift to Proprietary Software

• The ISO Delusion: When the Employer Doesn’t Understand the Company's Value Proposition (Building Systems) and Rejects Security
• Sirius 'Open Source' Casualty of Mismanagement (personal site)
• Companies Would Collapse Upon Abandoning Their Original Goals (That Attracted All the Productive Staff)
• Sirius ‘Open Source’ Sabotaged From Within (personal site)
• The ISO Delusion: Sirius Corporation Demonstrates a Lack of Understanding of Security and Privacy
• Enhanced Worker Surveillance in Security Clothing? (personal site)
• Sirius Relegated/Demoted/Destined Itself to Technical Hell by Refusing to Listen to the Technical Staff (Which Wanted to Stay With Asterisk/Free Software)
• Sirius Outsourced to Google and Everything Broke (personal site)
• The ISO Delusion/Sirius Corporation: A ‘Tech’ Company Run by Non-Technical People
• The Time Sirius ‘Open Source’ Forced Staff to Install Microsoft Skype on Personal Devices (personal site)
• Microsofters Inside Sirius 'Open Source'
• Microsoft Skype is Not Open Source (personal site)
• The ISO Delusion: A Stack of Proprietary Junk (Slack) Failing Miserably
• Abandoning Free Communication Software to Adopt Proprietary Bossware (personal site)
• Not Tolerating Proprietary 'Bossware' in the Workplace (or at Home in Case of Work-From-Home)
• A Tale of Bossware-at-Home in Company That Rejected Free Software (personal site)
• The ISO Delusion: When the Employer Doesn’t Realise That Outsourcing Clients' Passwords to LassPass After Security Breaches Is a Terrible Idea
• Bad Tools Make a Bad Company (personal site)
• 60 Days of Articles About Sirius 'Open Source' and the Long Road Ahead
• Last Part in the Sirius 'Open Source' Series (personal site)

Shorts

Memes and Graphics

• Meme: Sirius Open Wash Ltd.
• SiriUS No More
• Meme: Sirius Actually Used to Promote Free/Libre and Open Source Software
• Meme: Guilt by Association
• Meme: Sirius Corporation: In A League Of Its Own
• Meme: Another Month, More on Sirius ‘Open Source’

Immoral Practices

• Meme: Job Ethics
• Meme: Ultimate Sirius ‘Open Source’ Cover-up
• Meme: The Koala Nightmare
• Meme: You Can Punch, But the Joke is on You...
• Meme: How to Destroy One's Own Company
• Meme: It Was Never the Same After Bill Gates Paid the Sirius CEO Under a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA)

Cliques, Not Colleagues

• Meme: Kings Instead of Open Consultation Among Peers
• Meme: Sirius CEO to Staff: Any of You Can Apply for My Position, But I will be the One to Assess the Application
• Meme: What’s Worse? Monopoly or Polygamy?
• Meme: I Can Has Nepotism? Vouching for Romance.
• Meme: The Nepotism Police
• Meme: Qualifications Versus Sleeping With Debian Project Leader (or Sirius Manager)
• Meme: Problems Will Be Solved When He Returns (Back Home)

"It Came From Above..."

• Meme: Denying Security Breaches, Excuses No-one
• Meme: Outsourcing to Spying Firms
• Meme: Company Data All Over the Place, Footage of Employees Likewise
• Meme: Sirius CEO: LastPass is Safe, According to LastPass Itself
• Meme: Freedom is ‘Hobbyist’ Anyway

Poor Leadership

• Meme: Sirius Open Source, Closed-Minded Bossing
• Meme: Sirius Corporation Run by Dummies
• Meme: Superheros Don't Need No Stinkin' Updates
• Meme: Everyone Must Go
• Meme: Dirty Tricks, But No Fix
• Meme: Sirius Staff Always at the Bottom
• Meme: Sirius Web Site: Rianne Runs Tux Machines. Sirius Stalker (Boss): Rianne Allegedly Runs Tux Machines.
• Meme: Sherlock or Einstein Investigates...
• Meme: Without Technical Staff There Won't Be Sirius Open Source
• Meme: Sirius Management: I Can Do This All Day
• Meme: It Wasn't Me
• Meme: Listen to Your Workers, Avert Disaster
• Meme: With Superheroes Like These…

Chronic Dishonesty

• Meme: Never Admit Mistakes
• Meme: Almost Nothing Gets Done at the Office (Management Pretending to be Busy)
• Meme: What You Call a Person Who Lies a Lot
• Meme: Tux Machines is Not a Crime
• Meme: Database Down? Check Your Wallet.
• Meme: ‘The Liar’ in the Headlines
• Meme: Pressuring Staff Into Contract-Signing as Part of a Longstanding Pattern
• Meme: Sirius is Not Open Source and Thugs Took Over the Company

Exploitation and Isolation

• Meme: Squeezing the Life Out of Technical People
• Meme: When Sirius ‘Open Source’ Can No Longer Pay the Staff, So It Starts Fabricating Timelines
• Meme: 951,000 Tweets Are Okay, So Let's Dig Into 15 Years' Worth of Informal IRC Logs (in Social Channel, Two-Person Chats)
• Meme: Make Sure You Make an Actual Case... Not a Lousy Punchline
• Meme: Managers Who Attack Their Own Company, Treating Staff Like Enemies
• Meme: When Egotistic People Make Egoistic Companies Staff Becomes Disgruntled
• Meme: Stop Getting Ill!

ISOlation and ISO Fakery

• Meme: ISO-Approved Bullying?
• Meme: ISO Certification for Paying for Certificates on Time
• Meme: ISO Selling 'Reputation' to Small Businesses (for a Large Fee)
• Meme: Medical Data Sovereignty

Financial Issues

• Engineers Are Too Expensive for Sirius 'Open Source'
• Meme: Where Did the Money Go?
• Meme: Nocturnal NOC Workers Uncompensated
• Meme: Cannot Even Do Accounting Properly
• Meme: It Doesn't Take an Accountant to...
• Meme: Milking Technical People at Sirius ‘Open Source’ for Minuscule Salaries
• Meme: When You Start Lying to Clients Because You're Broke
• Meme: The AWS Bill is Here
• Meme: Sirius Almost Half a Million Behind (2 Years Ago)
• Meme: Slush Funds or Pocket Change From Bill Gates (Under NDA)

Disregard for Free Speech

• Meme: Sirius Open Source Trying to Censor Factual Articles About Sirius Open Source
• Sirius is Lying About a Contract in a Desperate Effort to Censor Factual Publications
• Meme: Sirius Management Meeting
• Meme: 'Never Miss a Good Chance to Shut up' — Will Rogers
• Meme: Fully Allowed to Speak About Injustice
• Meme: Punch the Messengers
• Meme: Be the Fox
• Meme: Cannot Speak to Friends If You Work at Sirius (Spouse Cannot Speak to Friends, Either)
• Meme: Truth is Not Defamation

Systems Malfunctioning

• Meme: Modern Phones
• Meme: Cannot Get a Phone to Work… in 2022

Reality Checks

Web Site Faking Company Size

• Sirius 'Open Source' Lists 15 People as Staff, But Only 6 Work in the Company
• Sirius 'Open Source' Lists 49 Firms/Organisations as Clients But Only 4 of Them Currently Are
• Office Manager in Company Without an Office
• Sirius Has Already Had at Least 4 Company Titles/Names
• Where Sirius ‘Open Source’ Originally 'Re'(Started) in 2017
• When Sirius Misleads Its Clients About Who Works at Sirius the Lies Propagate Further

Lack of Resources

• Evidence of Sirius ‘Open Source’ (or Sirius Corporation) Failing to Pay Pensions, Failing to Inform Staff, Not Responding to Staff
• Sirius Corporation (Sirius ‘Open Source’) and Dodgy Accounting (personal site)

Social Media

• When the Founder of Your Company Supports Donald Trump the Company Ends up Active in Fascist Platforms
• Sirius Open Source Run by Bots (and People Unequipped to Do the Job)
• Ironically, Sirius ‘Open Source’ Has Become All About Open Source Magic Pixie Dust(™) and Is Rarely Releasing Code

By the Few

• At Sirius ‘Open Source’, Decisions Are Made Exclusively and Secretly by the 'Inner Circle' (No Wider Participation Possible)
• At Sirius Open Source the Bosses Are Convinced They're Superheroes (But They Make Giant Mistakes)

Creating Shells to Dodge Liabilities

• Sirius ‘Open Source’ Looks Like It's Preparing for Insolvency/Administration
• Sirius ‘Open Source’/Sirius Corporation: 11 Officer Resignations, Only One Left for the Past 4+ Years
• CEO of Sirius 'UK' Uses Accountants as the Address of His Personal Business Too (Not Just Sirius Open Source/Corporation After 3 Address Rotations in Just 5 Weeks!)

Misleading Marketing

• Reality Check: Sirius ‘Open Source’ is Not Open Source Anymore (and Most of the Remaining Staff Turns Down Open Source)
• How Sirius Open Source Presents Itself in Microsoft's LinkedIn

Microsoft and Bill Gates Intervening

• Sirius Open Source Inc. - A New Shell Created When Bill Gates Paid the CEO; Then the Company Immediately Turned Ugly and Hostile Towards Its Own Workers