A Week of Sunlight
It's officially summertime in many places in the northern hemisphere and in some places (not here) the kids will finish school. Then their parents may go on holiday. We too plan to go on holiday this summer, even if Microsofters try to interfere with our plans. They try to project their own misery onto us - classic crab mentality.
There's a hearing this week and I have no reason to be nervous as I did not do anything wrong (the other side did). I am merely writing to explain what happened - without naming anybody in the legal teams - based on simple, verifiable facts. This is crucial because the response to extortion should be daylight (or sunlight) and moreover it's important for other journalists to better understand how such extortion works and how to best respond to it, then pursue legal reforms which prevent future incidents like these, whether they're from Microsoft and people in the US (misusing the docket in another continent) or some thin-skinned small company operating locally.
They say transparency is like sunlight to a vampire. They say that broad or international transparency in a kingdom of secrecy and underhanded tactics is not convenient, but it is very much necessary. Context is everything. Narratives rely on the full context.
Our goal for the coming years is to pursue reform through transparency and essential information. We'll moreover pursue compensation from the Microsoft employees who did this and their opportunistic facilitators, who keep doing this with their bombastic and meritless claims. █
