THE "Microsoft loves Linux" lie (or misleading slogan, a truly cheap and lousy attempt at revisionism) is another attempt to entice prey into the trap, including GitHub. Microsoft has been trying this for decades. Never forget the Halloween Documents; they're not old news.

"At some point it needs to be universally recognised that the only reason Microsoft pretends to have changed is that it wants to attract more fodder into its cave, urging us to simply ignore all the corpses that surround that cave's entrance."Free software is not a company; Microsoft knows how to crush and destroy companies (it has had lots of experience doing just that, even if it was later dragged into courts and settled), but hacker culture or software freedom are another kind of challenge to this cult. They try to spy on the users and then bribe those high up (see EDGI for instance). It should be a focal point of the Raspberry Pi scandal; Canonical seems to be going down a similar path, giving Microsoft inventories of users/customers.

The scandal at hand isn't over. It's work in progress. It's a coup.

At some point it needs to be universally recognised that the only reason Microsoft pretends to have changed is that it wants to attract more fodder into its cave, urging us to simply ignore all the corpses that surround that cave's entrance.

In Microsoft's very own words: “Linux infestations are being uncovered in many of our large accounts as part of the escalation engagements.”

We'll post the 4^th and final part of the series shortly. We've been trying to cope with massive DDOS attacks over the past 2 hours or so. ⬆