Linus Torvalds is Basically Explaining That OSI, Sponsored by Microsoft to Lobby for Microsoft, is Openwashing a Marketing Scam

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 29, 2024

There's a whole lot of garbage today [1-4] about what Richard Stallman (GNU founder) calls "bullshit generators" and Linus Torvalds (Linux founder) is repeatedly blasting, even this month:

More here (page updated over time).

Shame on OSI for helping Microsoft. It took Microsoft money to lobby for Microsoft. OSI sold out and now works against software freedom, even for GPL violations. █

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