Open Source is not an impediment to Microsoft's attacks on users' freedom.
You can get a job on LinkedIn to write code on GitHub that runs on Windows and talks to a server deployed to Azure with a single click from within the README.md .
In that ecosystem, permissively licensed Open Source software just helps Microsoft exploit you.
Which is why Microsoft unironically love Open Source and are very happy to see paid and unpaid shills shout that from the rooftops.
Dumping soon-to-expire patents to get goodwill from people they need to encourage into or prevent leaving that ecosystem is a strategic move that is designed to make sure you don't escape in the long term.
Pointing this out isn't shitting on the poor, defenceless corporation.
It's just not being fooled by their attempts to fleshmask Open Source.
The world is filled with Disney/Sony etc.'s music and if you are recording anything out in the world there's a chance that it will get included in the background.
Open Source is not an impediment to Microsoft's attacks on users' freedom.
You can get a job on LinkedIn to write code on GitHub that runs on Windows and talks to a server deployed to Azure with a single click from within the README.md .
In that ecosystem, permissively licensed Open Source software just helps Microsoft exploit you.
Which is why Microsoft unironically love Open Source and are very happy to see paid and unpaid shills shout that from the rooftops.
Dumping soon-to-expire patents to get goodwill from people they need to encourage into or prevent leaving that ecosystem is a strategic move that is designed to make sure you don't escape in the long term.
Pointing this out isn't shitting on the poor, defenceless corporation.
It's just not being fooled by their attempts to fleshmask Open Source.
They still hate Free Software.