● 09.06.21

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●● Linus Torvalds Fights Back Against Microsoft’s Latest Attempt to Hijack His Projects or Kidnap His ‘Babies’ (Linux and Git)

Posted in Free/Libre Software, GNU/Linux, Kernel, Microsoft at 2:18 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

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http://techrights.org/videos/github-against-linux-and-linus.webm

Summary: Linus Torvalds, the founder of Linux and Git, isn’t having it with Microsoft and its partners; 3 years ago dishonest monopolists worked to oust him over his supposedly ‘rude’ messages and the exploitative Linux Foundation sent him to therapists over it as if he was 'ill' for daring to protect his work (they still try)

THE EFFORT to impose Microsoft file systems on Linux users — with or without patent tax (see Tuxera) — goes well more than a decade back. It dates back to pre-GitHub days and we wrote many articles about it, even in recent years [1, 2, 3].

↺ Tuxera

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“Towards the end of the video I discuss why GitHub is also a legal threat and an attack on all of us…”Last year we cautioned about ongoing attempts to push Linux from Git to GitHub (from free-as-in-freedom software and autonomy to Microsoft proprietary software oppression) and now we see attempts to impose GitHub and at the same time Microsoft file systems on Linux users. They want to make that part of the core of the kernel’s storage-related code. In the video above I discuss the reaction from Torvalds (screenshot below with highlights added), who has long opposed GitHub, mostly for practical reasons. Towards the end of the video I discuss why GitHub is also a legal threat and an attack on all of us — putting aside these latest arguments about quality and security aspects. █

ongoing attempts to push Linux from Git to GitHub

↺ attempts to impose GitHub and at the same time Microsoft file systems on Linux users

↺ the reaction from Torvalds

↺ has long opposed GitHub

GitHub is also a legal threat and an attack on all of us

↺ arguments about quality and security aspects

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