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The Linux Foundation continues to privatise the Commons or basically turn community-developed work into corporate “assets”

When one pursues news updates about the GNU/Linux operating system (on the World Wide Web) one is increasingly likely to stumble upon promotional Microsoft articles that encourage use of proprietary spyware

The Linux Foundation seems to have at least partly abandoned WordPress and Drupal (GPL) in favour of proprietary and outsourced “offerings”; there has been a lot of outsourcing in recent years and this reaffirms the observation that the Foundation is run by inadequate management that fails to understand the ‘product’ it is named after, the licensing aspects, the community etc.

Fuelling Microsoft-affiliated and sometimes Microsoft-funded “news” (noise) sites, Red Hat — and to a lesser extent Fedora — exaggerated the severity of bugs a week before their details’ release (long and purposeless suspense); it’s a case of a boy who cries “wolf!” to get “likes” in Twitter and media coverage that relies on nothing but lousy (inaccurate) "tweets", where fact-checking is impeded by NDAs/embargo

To my surprise, my experiment with teaching computer science using nothing but the benign technologies of a whiteboard pen and £25 Raspberry Pi is an astounding success, loved by all the students.

The Linux Foundation expresses gratitude, upfront, to only one company: Microsoft

The Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC), which is trying to take ‘business’ and funds away from the FSF (also from SFLC, which sued it over that), helps IBM/Red Hat and the corporate front groups take over important GNU projects, typically under the guise of providing security and funds (financial security)

Is Canonical contractually obliged to promote Microsoft's proprietary things that spy on users? It would not be the first time Canonical works closely with Microsoft against the interests of Ubuntu users.

Rather than stick to its mission, which defines the name of the institution, we've witnessed an expansion to promotion of Microsoft GitHub and non-technical things that have nothing to do with Linux (this enables grifting, openwashing etc.)

The cookie jar associated with exploitation (or dilution) of the brand “Linux” is being opened and emptied by people who don’t use Linux and don’t contribute anything to it, instead selling control over it to hostile companies — i.e. opponents — like Microsoft (classic, textbook sellout)

Microsoft’s presence on the server side is just a niche. No wonder there are many Microsoft layoffs (about 20,000 staff) and Microsoft divisions are being silently shut down.

Nontechnical talking points from Microsoft 'suits' and paid 'analysts' are promoted by veiled media operatives which saturate the pool of news and end up reducing the signal-to-noise ratio, in effect spreading disinformation (fake news) on behalf of Microsoft so as to hide from very simple (albeit uncomfortable) facts; habitually they also misplace blame (offloading culpability for malware to "Linux") in order to shift the public's attention, partly because GNU/Linux and BSD are optimal alternatives for security-minded governments/enterprises

Moral dissent or conscientious leanings aren't tolerated by Microsoft and its media operatives; diligent adherence to or insistence on facts are seen as an act of heresy and punished severely

Plagiarists seek tools that make the plagiarism seem OK; no wonder they pursue stuff like Copilot, which is enraging coders whose code is being misused and misappropriated (relicensed as proprietary using proprietary software from Microsoft)

So much for rewarding merit; as shown above, one can have one’s salary grow sixfold in a decade, even when market share falls by about 90%

The situation of Windows' "share" (however subjective any measure would be) is grim; despite a "new" release of Windows, as recently as several months ago, "market share" decreases fast

GitHub is not 'free hosting' but a ticking time bomb, a proprietary platform looking to entrap its users (serfs) inside yet more proprietary platforms (for Microsoft to become their oppressive master)

Canonical is rapidly losing its dominance among desktop/laptop GNU/Linux users (it’s still doing OK in servers); but adding insult to injury, it’s now boosting Windows instead of GNU/Linux, perhaps failing to grasp that this is in part the cause of the exodus (of Ubuntu engineers, too)

Today we wish to take stock of a bunch of misleading, sensationalist coverage about “Linux”; as usual, Microsoft is connected to that, even more directly than one might expect…

The story of how EPO ‘hooked up’ with Belarus (Team Battistelli arranged for contracts through shadowy proxies), later resulting in the illegal outsourcing of EPO operations to Microsoft, which relies on a lot of corruption going unnoticed and/or unpunished