Microsoft Bribing Everyone: Canonical, 'Linux' Foundation, OSI... (Those That Should Push Back Against Microsoft Crimes)

Dr. Roy Schestowitz

2022-07-29 08:01:37 UTC
Modified: 2022-07-29 08:01:37 UTC

From yesterday's "news" alone:

What is an Open Source Program Office and why you should have one: The openwashing hive known as OSI is now more closely connected to LF via TODO Group; these are proprietary people

Let’s get confidential! Canonical Ubuntu Confidential VMs are now generally available on Microsoft Azure: When did you sell to Microsoft and how much for, Mark Shuttleworth (MS)? a division of Microsoft? exclamation mark on a LIE

Ubuntu Confidential Virtual Machines come to Microsoft Azure: Layoffs, failure; Azure is surveillance; company that blocks Linux

Summary: Don't expect the Linux Foundation or OSI to speak out against Microsoft's latest crimes [1, 2, 3]; heck, even Ubuntu no longer competes with Windows because Microsoft paid the parent company to become a partner instead of competitor (hence WSL); this is what antitrust laws exist for! But nobody enforces them anymore, except when Microsoft lobbyists ask regulators to focus on other companies, weaponising enforcement to basically protect an abusive monopolist

[Video] Richard Stallman on What Patents Would Have Done to Music (Covered by Copyrights): Our WebM version can be played using Free software, independently of the availability of Invidious mirrors
Our IRC Community Turns 17 Very Shortly: A few years from now our IRC community will turn 20
Linux Foundation Buys Misleading Puff Pieces About Itself, Earns Some LLM Slop to Accompany the PR (Openwashing and Propaganda as a Service, With the Brand "Linux" Needlessly Borrowed): Isn't it funny that after the "LF" (misusing the brand "Linux") flooded the Web with press releases and fake articles (that it had paid for) it now gets some LLM slop doing the same?
We Probably Served Close to 100 Million Gemini Requests: Many of these requests probably came from bots, but it's hard to distinguish (to block them) ... This coming summer Gemini Protocol will turn 6
Just Because Microsoft Resents Techrights Doesn't Mean SLAPPs Will Silence Techrights: To confront lies the best solution is to speak truth
Windows at New Low Levels in Madagascar (Population About 33 Million): Madagascar does not need Microsoft
Slop Images Are Bad Optics, Including for Perl.org: Slop devalues one's genuine work
What Happened to the Open Source Initiative (OSI) Elections: Proprietary Software Companies in Control, the Scandals Cannot be Hidden Anymore: We'll talk about it later this month and next month
Slopwatch: Fake News About Security Using LLMs That Make Fake 'Articles' About "Linux" (With Slop for Images): This cannot end well
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Saturday, March 22, 2025: IRC logs for Saturday, March 22, 2025
Gemini Links 22/03/2025: "Ukay Ukay", Microplastics in Tea, Jujutsu, and More: Links for the day
Links 22/03/2025: Johor Flooded, Ador Traps Young Musicians With Contract: Links for the day
Microsoft Destroys and Exploits, It Does Not Create: A race to nowhere
It's About So Much More Than 2 Microsofters, It's About Freedom to Speak About Crimes at Microsoft: Suffice to say, if some people related to our professional field attack women and get arrested for it, then there's nothing immoral about relaying this information
Links 22/03/2025: Social Security Attacks and More Attacks on the Press: Links for the day
Gemini Links 22/03/2025: INTERPOL, DDoS by "Hey Hi" Hype, and RSS/Feed Readers: Links for the day
Links 22/03/2025: Alzheimer Research and Mega-breaches in the US: Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Friday, March 21, 2025: IRC logs for Friday, March 21, 2025
Gemini Links 21/03/2025: Leasehold, LOTI, and Project Managers: Links for the day
Links 21/03/2025: Energy Facilities Under Fire (or on Fire), EU "Solidarity with Ukraine" and First Console: Links for the day
Links 21/03/2025: "IBM cuts Thousands" and Outlook Outage Again (Microsoft Looks for Excuses): Links for the day
Gemini Links 21/03/2025: "Happy Spring" and Leaving "The Enterprise": Links for the day
Many Articles About Layoffs Are Still Fake, Still LLM Slop, Even About IBM Layoffs: No wonder tech and tech journalism are getting so much worse
Speak More About the GNU Manifesto (40 Years Old This Month), It Helps Remind People That GNU/Linux Was Started by Richard Stallman and the Ultimate Goal is Freedom: We generally encourage people to speak about Software Freedom
Slappification: Using More SLAPP to Cover Up SLAPP and Chaining SLAPPs (From Microsoft) in a Failed Bid to Censor Techrights: How low can a person with a law degree stoop?
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Thursday, March 20, 2025: IRC logs for Thursday, March 20, 2025
Hidden from coroners and the public: tech industry cultural contagion: Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

Microsoft Bribing Everyone: Canonical, 'Linux' Foundation, OSI... (Those That Should Push Back Against Microsoft Crimes)

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