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Open Source Initiative to Help Microsoft Attack Copyright-based Copyleft (Under the False Guise of 'Hey Hi')

CoPilot is proprietary. ChatGPT is proprietary. Why is OSI promoting proprietary stuff for proprietary Microsoft while writing such nonsense (see below)? What audience does it reckon can be fooled by that?

The OSI's Board is stacked by Microsoft already [1, 2] (Microsoft moles, salaried by Microsoft, friends of Matthew J Garrett of TPM infamy). Follow the money. Today's OSI is a Microsoft front group that actively undermines legal actions against Microsoft*.

The latest in the OSI's blog:

OSI: Sponsored by Microsoft to attack Open Source. And yet the corrupt sellouts at OSI, bribed by Microsoft, are shilling GitHub and defending Copilot, which is in effect an attack on the GPL, set aside the trust issues. The OSI is corrupted beyond recognition. Microsoft propaganda fest, sponsored by Microsoft, for OSI to help Microsoft violate the GPL instead of fighting against Microsoft's GPL violations. OSI is bribed and corrupted.



Summary: This past week the Open Source Initiative continued its Microsoft-sponsored attack on copyleft and by extension against Open Source; who are they kidding? They have no integrity. They work for their mission's worst foes. That's where the salaries now come from.

_____ * There are active lawsuits against 'Open'AI over ChatGPT and against GitHub over Copilot. That's Microsoft working against other people's work or 'stealing' their work. Those are lawsuits filed for mass plagiarism. Class action, too. There are actually more than two lawsuits against ChatGPT and some against others too. This Reuters article mentions 'at least' three lawsuits against OpenAI for plagiarism so far. Why has OSI said nothing about this month's Copilot scandal? Is the OSI a watchdog of Microsoft now? The OSI's staff is funded by Microsoft, so the OSI is a de facto Microsoft proxy, just like 'Open'AI.

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