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Microsoft Grows Within and Eats You From the Inside

Like a parasite or a cancer infecting the host

"Get me into that and goddam, we'll make so much money!"

--Bill Gates, Microsoft



Summary: Microsoft entryism and other subversive tactics continue to threaten and sometimes successfully undermine the competition; Microsoft is nowadays doing that to core projects in the Free/Open Source software world

Microsoft puts one foot in the Web's dominant browser (Chrome), according to a decades-long Microsoft booster, Paul Thurrott. Now it's changing it, practically exercising control over the competition, just like it changes the Linux Foundation etc. from the inside.



"Likewise, they call their bribes "contributions" and in this twisted world where "success" means nothing but money they sabotage actual companies for a buck."Why don't more people learn from Microsoft's own history? The company is extremely destructive; this is what made it so notorious and untrustworthy.

Under various misleading headlines, including this from CNBC (it varies), "[a]ctivist [sic] investor [sic] Carl Icahn's latest target is a struggling company specializing in software for processing big data."

"This is typical entryism like seen in Yahoo's case and several companies after it; Icahn is very destructive and he is connected to Microsoft. Wherever he goes he seeds doom."Always remember what Icahn did to Yahoo on behalf of Microsoft. These people are criminals. Icahn is a white-collar criminal, but in corporate media (owned by such greedy and reckless people) they call the likes of him "activist" or "raider"... it's like a business compliment. Likewise, they call their bribes "contributions" and in this twisted world where "success" means nothing but money they sabotage actual companies for a buck.

In this particular case Icahn is going after a surveillance company (it brought in NSA projects and former NSA staff through Hortonworks). It's openwashing itself and labels surveillance "big data" while working for the likes of the NSA, though that's another matter. See articles such as "Billionaire Carl Icahn Gets 2 Cloudera Board Seats in Settlement" and "Carl Icahn wins two seats on Cloudera’s board in settlement" (among others [1, 2, 3]). This is typical entryism like seen in Yahoo's case and several companies after it; Icahn is very destructive and he is connected to Microsoft. Wherever he goes he seeds doom.

"GitHub has become Microsoft's latest infiltration facilitator..."Speaking of doom, this past week there were many examples of openwashing, dooming the term "Open Source". We shall cover these separately. There were quite a few articles this past week about Apache. Apache's long history of Microsoft swinging, including entryism that likely led to the outsourcing of all Apache projects to Microsoft, should serve as a warning sign. Half a decade of Microsoft in charge of the ASF (salaried Microsoft employee) did so much damage and only earlier this summer the culprit resigned (but not before sending a huge number of Apache projects to GitHub).

GitHub has become Microsoft's latest infiltration facilitator; it's an apparatus of entryism and we'll deal with it in our next post.

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