Canonical and Red Hat Are Not Competing With Microsoft Anymore
What a shame they hired so many people from Microsoft...
THE news sites, pointing to this authoritative source, say that "Google goes for Microsoft's jugular", but Google is proprietary software and hardly a modest solution to the real problem, which ranges from bad privacy to unnecessarily high cost. Heck, Google is in some sense becoming another Microsoft, so do we even want to root for it?
We said the same thing about IBM roughly 15 years ago when it was pushing Lotus and Symphony at the expense of Microsoft. Those are all proprietary and not what we the Free software community ought to advocate for.
An associate of ours pointed out that Google is promoting alternatives to Microsoft Office. "This is the kind of marketing that Red Hat and Canonical ought to be doing at scale," the associate said. "Except offering a standards based FOSS solution."
Well, Canonical and Red Hat keep pushing Microsoft. We gave a new example yesterday or as recently as about 20 hours ago.
Windows is not doing well, so why don't Canonical and Red Hat take advantage and promote GNU/Linux for desktops and laptops? They hardly do. In IRC, psydroid tells us that he has seen "lots of Qualcomm spam too as if the dying OS [Windows] is suddenly relevant when switching to new hardware..."
Anyway, we'll continue to express our disappointment with Canonical and Red Hat. The latter helped Microsoft boot-lock PCs (for Windows monopoly) and it is still doing this. How can we forget and forgive when it remains a growing problem?
Our associate argues that "Canonical and IBM [Red Hat] have actively facilitated infiltration by microsofters so as to subvert and weaken the two companies. Within living memory, IBM used to be a heavy investor in Linux and they liked the money they made rapidly though their Linux investments."
Well, today's IBM is a different company and there's a rumour that this week, shortly before a public holiday, it'll lay off many Red Hat employees.
Red Hat works for IBM. IBM does not work for the community, it's often trying to cancel the community. Look what it did to RHEL last summer. █