02.27.22
Gemini version available ♊︎Free Software at Times of War (Versus Microsoft Graft)
Related: The United States Government Should Quit Bailing Out Microsoft at Taxpayers’ Expense
Summary: Microsoft uses militarism to receive bailouts and it hopes to make the military dependent on Microsoft (so that it becomes “too big to jail/fail”); but recent events have shown that from a military perspective Microsoft software and other proprietary software are an unacceptable risk
The one angle that interests us most (not because other things aren't important) is how infrastructure can be turned off, cracked, undermined, or kept online only to target users (e.g. marking them for arrest/assassination). Centralisation contributes to this. For instance, you can “mute” millions of people in one fell swoop by blocking Twitter and/or Facebook.
“Had more nations grasped the risk of proprietary software, social control media (disinformation), and clown computing (outsourcing to foreign nations), Free software would be more widely adopted.”Our hope is that there will be peace, humanity will prevail, but also that more people will take note of this past week’s events, perhaps using them as a lesson on the importance of Software Freedom.
We don’t mean to sound blunt, insensitive and uncaring. We very much care for all human life, yet we try to highlight aspects of Free software by showing what happens at times of war. Had more nations grasped the risk of proprietary software, social control media (disinformation), and clown computing (outsourcing to foreign nations), Free software would be more widely adopted.
So be that as it may, this is likely to be a recurring theme in our imminent coverage. █
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