12.15.22
Gemini version available ♊︎Microsoft is Crumbling and Large-Scale Layoffs Seem Imminent, Not Just Likely (Acquisitions Help Microsoft Fake Growth That Does Not Exist)
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Microsoft Growth Becomes Impossible to Fake
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Summary: Microsoft is a shrinking company; the problem here, this demise of Microsoft means that it is infiltrating the Free software community to vandalise the most potent competitor right from the inside
THE rumour mill says more Microsoft layoffs will come soon (see comments from the past 24 hours).
Microsoft is by far the biggest enemy of GNU/Linux and software freedom (or Software Freedom capitalised), so this is important and relevant to us. “We should gather a bunch of companies and Linux distros to file an antitrust complaint,” someone recently told me after watching this video (“Microsoft Still HATES Linux & Open Source”) and we gradually find out that the same person who shilled UEFI ‘secure’ boot is basically working for Microsoft on the payroll of another company. He now works on TPM and Windows drivers… on Microsoft’s proprietary code forge. Yes, that’s just typical Matthew Garrett; Microsoft wanted him to work for Microsoft directly.
“The Free software movement is still under attack.”Anyway, this year’s Microsoft is firing, not hiring. In order to fake growth they rebrand everything possible as "Azure" or "clown" while trying to buy companies which make up for revenue declines (whilst at the same time lobbying the US government for bailouts in “defence” clothing). Some of these points are explained above; they also serve to explain why Garrett continues to shill Microsoft’s proprietary software, restrictions, and mass surveillance (in his blog and elsewhere; he’s still tweeting for Elon Musk while branding himself “SJW”).
The Free software movement is still under attack. Microsoft is shrinking, no doubt, but it is fighting us like Hell. So does Lennart Poettering, who now works for Microsoft 100% of the time (instead of IBM). In a nutshell, The Three Microsoft Stooges promote Microsoft domination over what boots on any computer, what programming tools developers may use, and what low-level system component governs the entire operating system (increasingly creeping further up the stack, too). Microsoft is infecting and then metastasising, to reuse Steve Ballmer’s crude metaphor. Any time Microsoft gets smaller it is good news for GNU/Linux and Software Freedom; think of it as chemotherapy. █
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