On Fri, 22 Jan 2016 01:29:06 +0100, Wim wrote in message <CACC-TiRegFW0E-NE2EJMLXmh=zh6yeculghnfw+qjkrmtsa...@mail.gmail.com>:
> Hi List, > > > ... Follow the money... > > Maybe this is related too? > > http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/39546.html .."maybe." ;o) > 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 ..small fish, nice tits. ;o) > 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? ..names, chk out their partners 'n clients... ;o) > 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? ..money owns political power. > 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 > > -- ..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
