05.09.23
Posted in Finance, Free/Libre Software, Marketing, Office Suites at 3:08 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Published, then deleted, two years ago: Deleted Post: “LibreOffice is Becoming Dominated by a Bunch of Corporates, and Has no Place for the Enthusiastic Amateur.”
See the screenshot below. This will have a negative impact on neutrality (those with deeper pockets are prioritised). LibreOffice Conference Sponsor Packages, published hours ago:
This event is to take place in Romania, where salaries are low; so if all you can afford to pay is 1,000 euros, you won’t be mentioned in the press release. It’s easier if you are German.
Summary: Conferences that advocate and present developments around Free software must prioritise top contributions, as measured in terms like effort (e.g. code) rather than money; for the third consecutive year LibreOffice (or TDF) gives a 'fast lane' reserved for corporations (deep pockets a prerequisite) and even turns its Twitter account into a marketing vessel
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04.24.23
Posted in Deception, Marketing, Microsoft at 1:26 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
While pushing a “CoC” the Linux Foundation is shamelessly violating rules, breaking netiquette, and even sponsoring clickfraud (this has gone on for years already)
This links to Asana. And Asana is proprietary by the way!
Summary: The ‘Linux’ Foundation, governed by a fraud [1, 2, 3] family (the Zemlins), is basically breaking rules of the Internet in pursuit of money; it’s rather incredible that any person — let alone a company — would wish to associate with those frauds
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04.15.23
Posted in Deception, Marketing, Microsoft at 12:03 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Four days ago: MIT Technology Review is Running SPAM for Microsoft and Azure (Distracting From Mass Layoffs)
Two months ago: MIT Technology Review is Run by ‘Microsoft India’
Here they go again…
“AI” “AI” “AI” (HEY HI!)
Hyping up “AI” for Microsoft et al under the guise of ‘study’, by paying for puff pieces about the ‘study’
More “HEY HI” chaff
100% of the ‘articles’ for that day are just paid-for spam… about “grooming“??? 8 pieces on that one day (more than what’s shown here) were all sponsored. Their RSS feed too became marketing. The “sponsored” stuff isn’t being separated.
Lobbying for Microsoft in schools? Or “grooming” officials?
Summary: The above is obviously not reporting; it’s just the latest example of MIT Technology Review turning from a reputable publisher into a “space for hire” presstitute of Microsoft and its proxies
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04.12.23
Posted in Deception, Marketing, Microsoft at 5:20 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
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Facts About Microsoft
Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0
Summary: Grifting Microsoft, propped up by bailout money and "defence" contracts from Trump and Biden, isn’t doing as well as Microsoft-funded media wants us to think; there are many layoffs, rapid erosion in market share, and deep losses in the buzzwords' departments
THE media has made it exceptionally easy to be cynical and sceptical of it. Yes, the media (or “mass” media, corporate media, mainstream media) is gaslighting people, lying to people, blaming the victims, and glorifying the criminals. It’s absurd, but that’s what happens when money buys “the news” and lobbying can become “reporting”.
As noted above, the GNU/Linux world isn’t immune to that. For instance, Clickfraud Spamnil [1, 2] (TFIR) is producing Microsoft spam this week, sponsored by ‘Linux’ Foundation. Yesterday we spoke about all the fake coverage that hyped up chaffbots, which months later seem like a forgotten fad.
“In order for the media to regain people’s trust it’ll need to act like media again.”We now have marketing/PR firms disguised as "news" sites, “journalists” (by their own description) that are funded by Microsoft, and even Florian Müller is back lobbying for Microsoft (people online call him out on it, noting the severe conflict of interest that goES back to the 1990s).
In order for the media to regain people’s trust it’ll need to act like media again. █
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04.11.23
Posted in Deception, Marketing at 10:59 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Who pays for these promotional buses/trains?
But what does the company actually do?
Summary: There are many so-called ‘news’ sites that operate similarly but aren’t ever telling this to their audience (readers are the real “product”, sold to the real clients, who are the marketers and lobbyists); this silent takeover by Public Relations (PR) nonsense or even disinformation campaigns has become rampant in today’s World Wide Web; the Linux Foundation funds some of these sites
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Posted in Deception, Marketing, Microsoft at 10:45 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Two months ago: MIT Technology Review is Run by ‘Microsoft India’
This week:
Summary: Over the past couple of months MIT Technology Review ran endless Microsoft puff pieces (we’ve attempted never to link to them; this was a daily occurrence, sometimes the majority of all new “content”), but the sponsorship isn’t so easy to hide anymore and it brings us back to the days MIT took bribes from Bill Gates via his close friend Jeffrey Epstein
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04.06.23
Posted in Marketing, Microsoft, OSI at 10:21 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Just hours ago:
Summary: The OSI is obsolete; it’s just collecting advertising money and its staff is sponsored by Microsoft to lobby for Microsoft (and promote proprietary software of Microsoft)
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02.15.23
Posted in Deception, Marketing, Microsoft at 1:35 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Related: Joi Ito Already Admitted on the Record That Bill Gates Had Paid MIT Through Jeffrey Epstein | Massachusetts Institute of Tall Tales (MIT) Covers Up Bill Gates Bribery of MIT Through a High-Profile Pedophile, Citing No Evidence Other Than Representatives of Gates Himself
There may be several more of these paid-for puff pieces for Infosys, a.k.a. ‘Microsoft India’ (they do some of Microsoft’s own operations). That’s like 80% of what they published yesterday!
Summary: Infosys was mentioned and promoted in at least half a dozen ‘articles’ in MIT Technology Review yesterday (there may be more; the above is not exhaustive); days prior to that MIT Technology Review published a lot of Microsoft SPAM that helped distract from Microsoft’s waves of layoffs, so this publication is clearly defunct (coverage ‘on sale’)
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