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The annual Debian developers conference, debconf 16, is taking place July 2-9 in Cape Town, South Africa, featuring for the first time ever Microsoft as a silver sponsor.
This seems consistent with the strategy, that pessimists may define EEE (embrace, extend, extinguish), of seeking close integration with the GNU/Linux system.
The move, from a traditionally hostile company that recently started showing enthusiasm towards open source software, is causing a mixture of derision and opposition in the community. As the grey beards in the IT community might recall, most of Microsoft partners, from IBM to the humble dev, tend to end up screwed in the long term. Will GNU/Linux be the exception?
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(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 15 2016, @09:56AM
Time for some McCarthyism..
For all the hate he got, McCarthy actually turned out to be right about damn near every one of the people on his list of subversive agents. The FBI files even revealed that the Communist Party USA (which had many close ties to the Democratic party) was not directly subservient to Soviet Russia...
So, yes. Indeed. It's not paranoia when they really are out to get you. And inviting known subversives to your "open environment" is only survivable if constant vigilance is maintained.
(Score: 2) by bitstream on Friday April 15 2016, @06:22PM
Microsoft is kind of like CCCP in this context: Yuri Bezmenov: Psychological Warfare Subversion & Control of Western Society [youtube.com].
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 15 2016, @07:43PM
You forgot to put "subversive" in quote marks.
the Communist Party USA [...] was not directly subservient to Soviet Russia
In fact, the vast majority of members were ANTI-Stalinist.
They recognized that (top-down) Totalitarianism is the OPPOSITE of Communism.
What USAian Communists wanted was a more egalitarian sharing of the immense wealth of the USA and the DEMOCRACY EVERYWHERE paradigm inherent in Marxist philosophy.
...rather than the concentrated wealth inherent in Capitalism and the oligarchy inherent in the founding documents of USA (with a only a veneer of actual Democracy in order to try to keep the proletariat pacified).
In fact, the USA's Constitution leaves a loophole for changing the system (via amendments).
In addition to that, Thomas Jefferson advocated a Constitutional Convention every generation to see if the Constitution needed to be rewritten.
If the USAian Commies had included one or both of those in their rhetoric, they would have been called Jeffersonian Patriots.
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