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THINGS are not exactly improving. Linux affairs are just getting less transparent.

As per his site, and as noted the other day as well, Dr. Stallman should start giving talks tomorrow (Universidad Nacional de Cañete)

In short, there's some dodgy private company trying to promote itself by trash-talking "Linux" for over 10 days already (many shallow pieces in "the media"). But it's not about Linux, it's about servers that haven't been patched for ages and it's the fault of some outdated programs installed on them.

Remember that Microsoft keeps close to its chest the operations and finances of GitHub (because it's embarrassing!), so we must rely on leaks and/or whistleblowers

So the Linux Foundation devotes about 2% of its budget to Linux (which it's named after) and the above is what it does in practical terms (PR for Bill Gates).

It's also clear that some "journalists" cannot tell the difference between Git and GitHub (Linux is not developed in GitHub), so they are clearly out of their ballpark.

"Git will go away sooner than later"

Microsoft loves to use GitHub, which is proprietary, as an example of being "open"; not only Microsoft does this

The EPO's lingering attempts to shut us down go back to 2015 and a year later the CEO of Sirius Open Source told me in person (in Alton Towers) that Microsoft was contacting him, trying to get me in trouble. They even phoned him.

How many thousands got laid off secretly? This month we sort of broke the story about IBM layoffs, starting with "soft" rumours and later more substantiated rumours. "Scouting" the insiders sort of 'paid off'. Not in a monetary sense of course; we don't make money, we lose money.

Seeing how IBM lobbies against 35 U.S.C. § 101 and how IBM/Microsoft exercise control over the USPTO (personnel-wise), we have no choice but to treat IBM as "part-time" enemy (only part because they also employ some Linux developers)

Intentional or not, the move seems deeply misguided

Microsoft paid Novell to stop competing and instead advance the interests of Microsoft as if these were Novell's too

Richard M. Stallman (RMS) has a new public talk online. He did not announce this in his site and we know why the FSF never mentions his talks either.

The above isn't a new problem because back in 2007 a Microsoft-connected troll called Acacia sued both Novell and Red Hat over Linux graphics. Hard to believe 17 years have passed since then.

There's a limit to how much abuse to me and to my family I can tolerate for the act of merely reporting on corporate corruption

That's Google. It has too much power/influence and it looks like a stacked panel.

That's a bigger increase than we expected, more so given vandalism by Microsoft.

This is what the Linux Foundation did to Linux.com after firing all the staff!

The Linux Foundation may take another month to upload the full stack of videos, so this is an unofficial recording by the audience.