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● 06.08.19
●● The Linux Foundation as a Facilitator of Microsoft’s Abduction of Developers (for GitHub, Azure, Visual Studio and Windows)
Posted in Deception, GNU/Linux, Microsoft at 9:34 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Jim Zemlin, Microsoft and GitHub (when photo ops tell a story)
Summary: There’s a profoundly disturbing pattern; in a rush for influence and money the Linux Foundation inadvertently (or worse — consciously and deliberately) paved the way to Microsoft’s more modern version of Embrace, Extend, Extinguish (EEE)
TECHRIGHTS has an ongoing series/book about how Free software is nowadays coming under attack — an attack that’s masqueraded as friendship. We’ve already published about half of it. Here it is for those who’ve missed it:
Introduction: Cover and quick Introduction [PDF]Chapter 1: Know your enemies– Act like a friend [PDF]Chapter 2: Work with the system– Use OEMs and your legal team [PDF]Chapter 3: Playing the victim– Show the world that too much freedom hurts development [PDF]Chapter 4: You get what you pay for– Getting skeptics to work for you [PDF]Chapter 5: Open Source Judo– How to bribe the moderates to your side [PDF]Chapter 6: Damning with faint praise– Take the right examples of free software and exploit them for everything [PDF]
This mini-book is expected to be completed by month’s end. The first two chapters directly allude to what Microsoft is now doing through GitHub. It’s about licensing, it’s about Azure, it is about Visual Studio, Vista 10 and so on. Microsoft just wants to forcibly ‘buy back’ developers.
“Microsoft just wants to forcibly ‘buy back’ developers.”We’ve meanwhile also published some exclusive articles about the Linux Foundation, which we intend to cover very closely throughout this weekend. There’s a great deal of interest in it and all the feedback we receive is overwhelmingly positive.
http://techrights.org/wiki/index.php/Linux_Foundation
People do not believe Microsoft. The PR is, with few exceptions here and there, ineffective. Linux Foundation staff and contractors participated in this PR for years, but that’s a story for another day/article. Those who participate in this PR even get arrested. Microsoft’s PR/marketing staff must be laughing really hard whenever it sees people saying things like “new Microsoft” or “but it’s Open Source” and “Microsoft loves Linux”…
“People do not believe Microsoft. The PR is, with few exceptions here and there, ineffective.”“The PR campaign worked,” says Microsoft to itself, “now they repeat our lies for us!”
But how many people actually believe this nonsense? Among actual GNU/Linux users, from what we’ve able to gather online, almost nobody falls for it. These users aren’t as stupid as Microsoft wants and needs them to be.
To those who accept or even spread (gratis) the “Microsoft loves Linux” lie a sobering reality check would be worthwhile; consider this from Thursday’s news. Longtime Microsoft booster Tim Anderson wrote about GitHub slapping GNU/Linux users across the face. The responses are more noteworthy than the article itself because the article is mostly promotional. It’s GitHub promotion.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/06/06/github_desktop_is_20_stash_and_rebase_from_the_gui/
“How can anyone develop something
in Electron but not support
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copywriting
So another British Microsoft booster has just spoken of a so-called ‘app’, GitHub Desktop 2.0. How can anyone develop something in Electron but not support GNU/Linux? He too wondered aloud:
One curious thing is that although GitHub 2.0 is built with the cross-platform Electron framework, it is only officially available for Windows and Mac. Of course there is a fork, but why?
It is not because Linux users scorn GUI tools. “Our team has a strong background in Windows and macOS development, so those installers have been stable and fine for a while. We also have the ability to adapt the application to the platform it’s running on, using the __LINUX__ global symbol in code. But the Linux ecosystem is the unknown for us, and my fork is a way to experiment and get something working with those who have the ability to provide feedback,” said GitHub’s Brendan Forster.
This has caused some puzzlement. “That an entity called ‘GitHub’ can’t manage an official Linux app is just darn surprising,” said one user.
Anderson has many of these articles; it feels like an ad with a link at the end (to proprietary software) and comments rightly point out the obvious:
https://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/all/2019/06/06/github_desktop_is_20_stash_and_rebase_from_the_gui/
Ignorance is not bliss. “…so that millions more can participate in software development, research, design, and more,”
Obviously not. I mean there aren’t many devs working on Linux now are there? Slippery slope, thin end of the wedge, embrace, extend, extinguish. You know the score. “Our team has a strong background in Windows and macOS development…” In case you have forgotten Git was developed by Linus Torvalds who if I recall correctly also had something to do with developing Linux. Take the bloody blinkers off and try and see that the whole world does not revolve around Windows any more, if it ever did. 1 4
Microsoft and now the corrupted
(wages from Microsoft) GitHub team
https://www.youtube.com/watch
LF, Microsoft and GitHub years before the takeover (Source: Microsoft, via)
https://www.ictjournal.ch/news/2016-11-18/microsoft-rejoint-la-fondation-linux
The person who last week said
Microsoft is “no Satan” is Dina
https://www.google.com/search
“Mac Asay was among those who repeatedly spread this lie. It wasn’t enough for him to put that lie in headlines only once; he did so every week or every month.”Apparently, or so I’m told (but not shown any numbers because it’s secret), many people are leaving GitHub and not many join anymore. That’s the effect of Microsoft (which foresaw this, based on Bass). Yesterday Anderson revealed additional issues associated with GitHub under Microsoft, which may be suggestive of brain drain (loss of key engineers):
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/06/07/github_repos_wiped_without_notice_quickly_restored_but_why/
“I can’t believe how easy it apparently is to have someone’s life work taken down from Github,” he said on his forum, fortunately hosted elsewhere. “And GitHub never emailed me about this. Not a whisper. Just poof, account gone. When I logged in, I could see my account, and see that it had been ‘flagged’, with no other explanation given.”
Rohrer turned to the last and sometimes sole refuge of tech giant victims – social media. “If you’re thinking about using @github for your life’s work, FYI, they may remove it without any warning or notice,” he protested. 373 retweets and a few hours later, and everything was restored.
But why did it happen in the first
place? Things like this did not
http://techrights.org/wiki/index.php/Microsoft_-_GitHub
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