Hi List,
... Follow the money... Maybe this is related too? http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/39546.html The Linux Foundation quietly dropped community representation. No more voting rights for simple members. Looks like a coup to me. And that begs the question: "Who is Karen Sandler?" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Sandler Both major law firms she worked for in the past, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and Clifford Chance, have multiple ties to Microsoft. In itself not remarkable, perhaps, as both have most of the fortune 500 as clients. One example: Project Tomorrow, see http://www.tomorrow.org/docs/Gibson-Dunn-laptopdonationrelease.DOC What's in a name? Makes me think about a Hillary Clinton remark to someone stating that talks between the tech industry and US govt about encryption backdoors weren't exactly successful: "That's not what I've heard"... Slip of the tongue? What do you think? Cheers, Wim 2016-01-22 0:34 GMT+01:00 Arnt Karlsen <a...@iaksess.no>: > On Thu, 21 Jan 2016 15:46:55 +0100, Didier wrote in message > <56a0ef5f.3050...@in2p3.fr>: > > > Le 21/01/2016 13:08, Simon Hobson a écrit : > > > What if we s/Microsoft/Rackspace/ > > > (you can use pretty well any hosting outfit really) > > > The basic underlying thing that this announcement shows is that > > > ${company} now supports ${OS} on it's hosting platform. Yes, the > > > sole reason they are doing it where ${OS}==Debian is because they > > > think there's money to be made from it. I think you'll find that > > > most of the hosting outfits are in it to make money - sorry if the > > > idea that someone is allowed to make a profit upsets some sensitive > > > types. > > > > I don't know for Rackspace. > > ..learn ;o): > > http://www.groklaw.net/search.php?query=Rackspace+&keyType=phrase&datestart=&dateend=&topic=0&type=all&author=0&mode=search > > > But MS has a specific log of trying to kill FOSS and specifically > > Linux, by *all means*, including technical locking and abuse of law. > > ..drumroll please, _I_ ;o) suggested we put "Microsoft Litigation" here: > http://www.groklaw.net/staticpages/index.php?page=2005010107100653 > aaand on the left hand stortcut menu, where it has gained an extra > "s" since "my post-Groklaw" litigation took off. > > ..the _appearant_ importance of #550,000 over rounder figures like > #500,000, #600,000, #700,000, #800,000 etc in e.g. > https://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2015/08/index.en.html#newdpn > also have me doubt the other "Once upon a time"-tales of "Microsoft > support of Debian 8 only" and "only since March 2015" etc that I > see here. > > ..the US 5 M$ Microsoft reported spending on "combating computer > viruses" to the SEC for Q3-2003 and the US 106M$ they squirmed > away to their TSG etc proxy litigation in that same SEC filing for > that same Q3-2003 quarter, speaks volumes of their intentions, > is why we said "Always, Always, Always Follow The Money." ;o) > http://www.groklaw.net/staticpages/index.php?page=20030831174259231 > > > I haven't seen any sign they're going to give up anytime soon on that > > fight, and I don't think here is such a sign: they earn a lot of > > profit and the little more they can gain with Linux on Azure is > > completely negligible in comparison with the strategic goal of > > killing Linux. > > > > Maybe MS haven't any legal means to forbid their employees to > > work for Linux during their free time. Otherwise, they have other > > reasons to tolerate it. > > ..such "tolerance" is done mostly "to know thy enemy", it's also > quite handy for luring in e.g. patent litigation poisons, "good" > design ideas, "binary [in the chemical warfare sense] poisons" > etc tools to scuttle e.g. GNU, Debian etc Linux, e.g. by telling > e.g. our dear Lennart tall stories about "How the War on Terror > Desperately Needs Secret National Security Backdoors in Linux" > etc. Etc. Explains their zeal, etc. > > > -- > ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen > ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... > Scenarios always come in sets of three: > best case, worst case, and just in case. > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng >
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