[GTALUG] Surveillance Capitalism [was another thread]

[Russell Reiter]

Red Hat has just dropped its Free Software Foundation funding and support.

Now that Red Hat is pretty well owned by IBM, wouldn't you like to ask all
those people, how far back in IBM's own history of misdeeds;
notwithstanding rumors, innuendo and just plain gossip; the rest of us
should look when judging the actions of  others.

I sure would.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust

Stallman was outspoken about surveillance capitalisim and WSL. Those are
big cages to rattle with one tiny tin cup.

Just in case you don't think an NGO is capable of such insider
machinations. I highly recommend the following book which has a pretty good
evaluation of how the powers that be; leveraged trends, NGO (charity)
connections and industry (read IBM) influences which gave Bill Gates his
silver spoon running head start with MS DOS.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2760759-the-making-of-microsoft

Don't even get me started on WSL as an organized plan to disrupt linux
freedom.

Engage Encompass and Eradicate are proven techniques of imperialism and
capitalisim.

I think Red Hats "Woke Spoke" is Broke on this one, but with all that IBM
money behind them, they will break this one guy out of the big picture,
just because they can.


Russell
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