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Microsoft entryism (using fake ‘love’ and openwashing tactics) seems to have yielded the worst possible outcome; it now has root-level access, without user consent, into millions of Raspberry Pi devices

There’s corporate infiltration inside communities (for oligarchy hunts volunteer, unpaid labour) and those who speak about that as a threat to our cause and objectives are painted as misguided outcasts who must be ignored

In yet another arrogant display of Hubris and self-admiration, Microsoft enters a project merely to divert resources away from its principal goals, instead rendering it a ‘slave’ of Microsoft’s proprietary universe (DirectX, WSL, GitHub)

“A last-ditch effort to save the Free Software movement.” Guest article by figosdev,

“We would all probably be better-off if they simply folded their tent and let the GNU organization get on with the real movement.”

GNU/Linux distros attacked by software patents, even in Europe where no such patents are supposed to exist (or have any legal bearing)

Richard Stallman (RMS) is exploring new ways to deal with new threats to software freedom, even if it's done mostly behind the scenes (dodging those hyenas who defamed him 'out of office' at MIT)

Debian ‘canceling’ the founder of Linux is no “small potatoes”; and considering the reason (or what this is done for; an expression of an opinion) we probably should be alarmed about ramifications for free speech

“There are still a few people (but sadly very few groups) doing this for the right reasons.”

RMS does a reasonable job of introducing people to the subject of when "Open" is something meaningless.

"Corporate-backed lies run the world, and the FSF used to get in the way."

The situation at Red Hat isn’t good, employee morale is very low, and yet — perhaps unsurprisingly — nobody seems to be talking about it (at least not in the mainstream media)

“In its narcissistic fashion, Open Source has always reserved the right to exhibit an iconoclastic veneer, while complaining that Free software won’t ever be understood, can’t represent its own movement unless everybody acts like a professional (the author of the Linux kernel can’t code in a bathrobe, what will people think?).”

A large part of this “loss of integrity” is simply a lack of desire to resist competition, or even recognize the nature of the threat.

Do we teach people to code just so they can be forced to use GitHub, or so that they have a choice, or so they can help us fight against such a monopoly?

Who’s going to defend our 4 freedoms then? The people who bribed the watchdogs? The people who decapitated our organisations?

People who believe that GNU/Linux just “won” and has no enemies left are clearly easy for Microsoft to indoctrinate or thoroughly deceive; at the moment the very trademark and identity of GNU/Linux is under attack

Microsoft’s strategy of hijacking the Free software movement wasn’t a reflex and didn’t come about overnight; the people behind it and their thinking (as shared openly for the media to publish) reveal the true motivation, the real agenda

A point-by-point rebuttal to the latest revision of Bryan Lunduke's anti-GNU/Linux talks, which he repeats every time he runs out of material and craves traffic

The coup to remove (or remove power from) Stallman and Torvalds, the GNU and Linux founders respectively, is followed by outsourcing of their work to Microsoft’s newly-acquired monopoly (GitHub) and appointment of Microsoft workers or Microsoft-friendly people, shoehorning them into top roles under the disingenuous guise of "professionalism"