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American Imperialism and Microsoft Plagiarism

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 13, 2025

Intrepid museum at Hudson, Manhattan, New York City.

All your codebases (and text, images etc.) are "belong to us"?

This week has been exceptionally productive for us, not just online, but also offline. We're making a new "home" for the birds, we celebrated a site turning 21, and yesterday afternoon we finished a bottle of expensive sparkling wine to celebrate another important milestone/record.

We're also glad to see that more of Europe now recognises and publicly speaks about the Microsoft threat. Microsoft is correctly seen as a threat. More towns abandon Microsoft. There's a lot of Microsoft layoffs coming soon, not related to the wave from 2 weeks ago and last month.

From my personal experience, what happens when Microsoft loses the plot is... it will simply attack people. It'll attack critics. It wants its utter lies to prevail so that shareholders will pour out money (to be lost!) while debt soars.

Techrights will therefore do what Microsoft does not want it to do: it'll write even more about Microsoft.

Uncomfortable facts and Microsoft

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