“In the last week of October 1998, a confidential Microsoft memorandum on Redmond’s strategy against Linux and Open Source software was leaked to me by a source who shall remain nameless. I annotated this memorandum with explanation and commentary over Halloween Weekend and released it to the national press. Microsoft was forced to acknowledge its authenticity. The press rightly treated it as a major story and covered it (with varying degrees of cluefulness).”

  • @friend_of_satan
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    1 year ago
    • Linux can win as long as services / protocols are commodities.
    • OSS projects have been able to gain a foothold in many server applications because of the wide utility of highly commoditized, simple protocols. By extending these protocols and developing new protocols, we can deny OSS projects entry into the market.

    Those two are things we as a community need to focus on. This Fediverse we’re in is one fine solution though :)

    • @TCB13
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      91 year ago

      And that document they started a crusade to twist and manufacture an entire development ecosystem that makes people hostage. Eg. VScode: https://ghuntley.com/fracture/

    • Beej Jorgensen
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      Yup! That “interoperability” Doctorow is rightly on about that all these large monopolistic companies hate.