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Microsoft can see this; all it can do is spam the "media" with WSL nonsense (i.e. stay with Windows, please!).

We do not believe the OSI can recover from this. It might be replaced, as the need will arise for licence enforcers that aren't compromised (bribed) by the biggest licence violator (Microsoft). ?

Let's recite some facts about the Open Source Initiative (OSI)

Maybe one day RMS will be more vocal in criticism or condemnation of systemd, nowadays exceedingly led by and hosted by Microsoft. Microsoft's vision of "Linux" is just something that it controls (i.e. it controls users) via Azure or similar spyware. It already integrates it with TPMs and other terrible things via systemd.

This lack of morality/courage has helped enable further abuse, lining up more victims

The only way Microsoft can survive rivalry is to sabotage the rival under the false guise of "security" or "secure boot" (it's not about security; it's about not allowing PCs to boot without Microsoft's approval) or by hijacking the rivals via GitHub (then throwing all the code into a plagiarism blender that takes away the licence). Those are the real issues.

No matter what it used to be (or could be or was supposed to be), the general public must understand what it is right now. Information is essential here; transparency is imperative.

Linux Foundation fired all the staff (including editors) of Linux.com

The real issue here is people who attack computing freedom and help Microsoft damage Linux.

Today we take a "Deep Dive" - to borrow the words used by the OSI to describe its Microsoft-sponsored lobbying for GPL violations.

In the introduction and the previous part we explained why this matters and today we'll touch the 'gory' details. There's too much to cover in one single part.

Microsoft truly hates Linux, it only pretends otherwise. Microsoft knows that as long as GNU/Linux exists it'll struggle to charge people for Windows

So it looks like it's actually underway already, with the implicit blessing of the originator of the DFSG and the Open Source Definition (he co-founded the OSI and no longer trusts the OSI).

What if we told you that the person who pushes Rust into Ubuntu (to replace GNU) comes from the Army, where he worked on mass surveillance, according to himself? He later went into the same industry the former CEO of Canonical had come from. His Web site says that he: "Architected and built multiple high-end bespoke Electronic Surveillance capabilities."

It should be noted that the Rust language is being developed by the Mozilla Foundation, which is the same organization that is presently turning Firefox into a spyware monster that sends all data about its users somewhere to train "AI".

As we'll show later, many people (even inside OSI) are very angry at the OSI right now

Excuse me, can I make a complaint, OSI? Or are you paid to excuse "Open Source" violations by Microsoft?

If it's just some category or section in forums, then it's not a blog. No more "Community Blog".

We like the part where RMS says "the name OpenAI is deceptive because it's not artificial intelligence. It's an LLM. They should change their name to OpenLLM. And then they should change their name to SecretLLM because they don't publish the code at all. So the name OpenAI is two lies."

In general the most hardworking UEFI advocates seem to be people who don't do stuff like install alternative operating systems on their computers. They certainly don't write computer code that would have something to do with the motherboard's firmware or interface with the peripheral devices.