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Corporate Media: GNU/Linux Can Only Succeed If/When Microsoft Dominates Everything Inside It

Is GNU/Linux only ever "Winning" when it's Windows (or Microsoft-controlled with OSI-led approval)?

Rowlf and Liberace: What's better than Windows calculator in KDE? A KDE/Qt calculator?



Summary: The corporate takeover (or handover) of GNU/Linux would not have been possible without complicity of corruptible (bribed) media

THAT same old nonsense about "Microsoft loves Linux" was apparently just the edge of an iceberg because this week we're told that GitHub somehow makes Windows "open". It's what some would rightly label "First-class Bullshit!"



"If we get accustomed to this nonsense, we'll see everything that comes out of Microsoft's orifices treated like a gift from God (even proprietary software that was never properly ported to GNU/Linux, e.g. SQL Server)."The way things are going, corporate media is mostly spam. Follow the money and you'll find sites like ZDNet reduced to little but Microsoft propaganda. Their "Linux" section is overwhelmingly about Windows and Microsoft. Just what the "master" (or paymaster) paid for... (right now the article "Microsoft: Learn JavaScript Node.js with this new free course" is filed under their "Linux" section, second from the top!)

If we get accustomed to this nonsense, we'll see everything that comes out of Microsoft's orifices treated like a gift from God (even proprietary software that was never properly ported to GNU/Linux, e.g. SQL Server). They have a strategy. Publishers are paid by Microsoft to be in denial about that and mislead readers.

Linus Torvalds once said the following (before using the nonsensical term "Open Source"):

When it comes to software, I much prefer free software, because I have very seldom seen a program that has worked well enough for my needs, and having sources available can be a life-saver.


Did Torvalds envision Microsoft embracing a lie (openwashing) to distract from free software and then promote a proprietary platform-hosted (GitHub) spyware to replace GNU/Linux calculators? The same platform which then (later on) his new bosses at the Linux Foundation would suggest for hosting not only his second project (Git) but also the first (Linux)? Wake up, Mr. Torvalds. You're being conned. Richard Stallman has been sounding the alarm about this for decades; he suggested boycotting GitHub even 3 years before Microsoft bought it.

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