Working Like a Pack of Hyenas, the Microsofters Try Hard to Hide the Truth and Actively Censor Critics

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 08, 2025

The letters we've been receiving this winter leave little room for doubt; the Microsofters talk and coordinate efforts to silence Techrights. They even target women. If the goal is to scare women and abuse women, the threatening letters [1, 2, 3] do a fine job at it.

Whose idea was it? What were they thinking? Could they not foresee what would happen? Suffice to say, this has not gone well for them [1, 2]. Getting some poor "guns for hire" in another continent seems so desperate a move that it just shows the impact of what we do and helps embolden us to write even more - to the point of accelerating and expediting. It really hurts them that someone speaks about the GPL violations amid a $9,000,000,000 - yes, that's billions (in damages) - lawsuit against Microsoft. The people who try to silence us are likely complicit and we heard they might be receiving subpoenas. Strangulation of women might be a "side issue" here.

A year ago a lot of the focus of the SLAPP was UEFI. But now, maybe both cases, including the first, can be framed as: 1. Corporate effort to silence prolific critics; 2. In the case of Graveley (Microsoft), there are powerful "best friends" certainly urging if not funding him to do this. Some come from Microsoft (even perhaps the executive level, Nat Friedman). 3. MJG recently spoke in public to friends of Graveley, who are very wealthy (e.g. Miguel de Icaza; they are likely "in cahoots"^*).

So in effect we have individuals funded by a company (Microsoft) fronting for a company, looking to hurt a critic of this company, framing this as a personal grudge when in fact nothing could be further from the truth.

Their "guns for hire" are tearing down the whole branch (or tree) by pulling one leaf that's connected to others; they participate in a SLAPP campaign with several actors, demonising their entire occupation. That's a lot like Microsoft secretly funding patent trolls to fight against Microsoft rivals. It should be noted that the number of patent lawsuits fell sharply when rules were added to allow or facilitate a compelled disclosure of funding of such lawsuits, at least in the US.

We're going to find out who's funding the SLAPP against us. Silence on this matter isn't an option. █

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^* Those are the known and indisputable facts. In fact, we downloaded ample evidence of that (so it'll be harder to hide later). "Conspiracy theory" is a common, derogatory label used to describe unproven hypotheses. In this case, we have one plausible hypothesis: In October 2021 Techrights starts publishing a whistleblower's account of crime at GitHub, implicating Nat Friedman and Miguel de Icaza (Microsoft, GNOME). MJG, whom we called "Gulagboy" back then (GNOME, pusher of Microsoft), starts sending legal threats to Techrights, and then regularly sustains blackmail-like pressure against the site (as happened since then; we kept writing about GitHub scandals; MJG was cherry-picking some old "tweet" to repeatedly scare but never take action). Nat Friedman and Miguel de Icaza lose (or leave) their job weeks later. Was there an effort by Microsoft to retaliate, e.g. via MJG? The timing was tight enough to suggest a possible correlation. Whenever MJG gets "stuck" (dead end) the friends and the Microsofters ride to the rescue. The lawyer then receives money from those very same people (GNOME, Mono, Microsoft). The timing is everything. We shall revisit this some other day. It's really not hard to show the correlations, both personal and professional.