Debian's Russell Coker Parrots Claims From Serial Defamers, Who Are Connected to Microsoft
The militants are at it again
LET us not forget that 1) Free software luminaries came under attack and 2) this attack isn't finished but an ongoing process.
Russell Coker's new post, made visible from Planet Debian, is entitled "Abuse and Free Software". The post mindlessly accuses Professor Moglen of "abusing" his authority as the GPL person, blasting people who clearly abuse things like trademarks to steal other people's business while taking sponsorship money from Microsoft and almost literally selling "thank-yous".
These are actual facts, hard facts. To some, facts such as these are not convenient. Follow the money...
Debian's Russell Coker, who opposed condemning the 9/11 terror attacks, openly joins the smear campaign, citing militants and liars, blindly trusting what they're saying (they defame many others too and sometimes get sued for it - my wife will cover this next year).
The way we see it, Microsoft elements inside Debian are poisoning people's minds against the people who created the GPL and GNU. This is an ongoing pattern. Those Microsoft moles also 'forget' to mention their glaring conflict of interest, an ongoing legal case, and serial defamers in top positions at SFC (Sharp). These people try very hard to prevent the creators of GNU/Linux from talking about their platform and moreover prevent them from appearing in court to present their own case. Well, maybe Mr. Coker is driven here by antisemitism rather than facts. Maybe... very difficult to prove such a strong accusation.
This is how his post starts:
People in positions of power can get away with mistreating other people. For any organisation to operate effectively there have to be mechanisms to address bad behaviour, both to help the organisation to achieve it’s goals and to protect people who work for it.
When an organisation operates in the public interest there is a greater reason to try to prevent bad behaviour as hurting people is not in the public interest.
[Source: https://etbe.coker.com.au/2023/12/20/abuse-free-software/ and yes, this link is not clickable; that's by intention]
No sources there other than Kuhn and Garrett, who are both closely involved in the SFC, which got sued. And given the lack of reliable source/s, without a conflict of interest, one wonders if online hearsay is how Coker forms his political opinions, which are beyond controversial (in some countries they can get him detained).
As noted in the sister site yesterday, the SFC has some new storytelling episode. The SFC's Executive Director speaks of a "quest for software freedom" as in becoming a millionaire by attacking the people who created what she's exploiting, and taking advantage of a medical condition to gain more visibility, even empathy.
The problem of Microsoters is not limited to Microsoft anymore. Google, another prominent sponsor of the SFC, hired loads of people from Microsoft. So the same people sort of get around, without cool-off periods, and then damage other companies, as well as society at large.
Even if Microsoft gradually implodes we must remain wary and concerned. Microsoft is trying to give an appearance of health in 2023 (despite soaring debt). Microsoft be like [sic]: "HEY HI, CoPilot, GPT, HEY HI, CoPilot, GPT, HEY HI, CoPilot, GPT."
But the reality of Microsoft in 2023: "layoffs, more layoffs, more layoffs, more layoffs, more layoffs, more layoffs, more layoffs, more layoffs, more layoffs, more layoffs, more layoffs, more layoffs, more layoffs, more layoffs, more layoffs..."
One person keeps reminding us that the problem with the layoffs is that the Microsofters will end up infecting other institutions.
We saw that in Google and many other companies, especially before the hiring bubble popped (companies faking scale/magnitude/importance by constantly hiring mostly redundant staff and buying companies using shares with fictional "value").
Perhaps there is no other way (sadly), seeing that we either deal with oversized Microsoft or a diaspora of Microsofters who inevitably poison everything. One person we spoke to prefers they be blacklisted from industry permanently and completely. But it is still a step forward that Microsoft is downsizing if one does not worry about the metastasisation.
We remain adamant and insistent that the mindset cannot be cured, no matter who pays the salary. Microsoft and Bill Gates have 1) popularised the mindset and 2) assembled the sociopaths whom they found "compatible" with that corporate culture, which includes misogyny and leaning towards crime. "The Microsoft Effect" - as an associate dubs it - means nothing works but that's ok because it's expected and normal for "tech".
"The goal now is to ruin the field of computing," psydruid told me hours ago. "If Microsoft can't succeed no other company should..."
So now we have failed biologists disguised as security experts and basically trying to get up by tearing people down, by libeling them and even comparing them to wife murderers.
UEFI 'secure' boot never really works (not only does it fail at security, it actually prevents healthy machines from even booting!), but that's ok... right?
Ask some failed biologist on GAFAM payroll.
Let's also trust the very same saboteurs who did this whenever they tell us that Professor Eben Moglen is a wife murder-like person, right? Nothing defamatory about that, right? They've already deleted pages to that effect, perhaps fearing the legal consequences. █