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<font size="+3"><font face="Tahoma">Hi LUGers.<br>
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Very discouraging words here.<br>
GNU/Linux is Being Eaten Alive by Large Corporations With Their
Agenda<br>
04.16.19 Posted in GNU/Linux, IBM, Microsoft, OSDL, OSI at 8:25
am <br>
by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Asset stripping GNU/Linux Asset
stripping the GNU<br>
<br>
Summary: A sort of corporate takeover, of moneyed interests at
the expense of our freedom, can be seen as a ‘soft coup’ whose
eventual outcome would involve all or most servers in ‘the
cloud’ (surveillance with patent tax as part of the rental fees)
and almost no laptops/desktops which aren’t remotely controlled
(and limit what’s run on them, using something like UEFI ‘secure
boot’)<br>
Full article at
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://techrights.org/2019/04/16/soft-coup/"><http://techrights.org/2019/04/16/soft-coup/></a><br>
<br>
Bobbie Sellers<br>
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