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TechRights reports [techrights.org]

Microsoft is Turning Eclipse Into a Proprietary Software Tool by Sinking its Claws Into the Eclipse Foundation

Microsoft is spreading proprietary software and surveillance, extorting Linux with software patents, and [...] contaminating FOSS frameworks--all in less than a single day

Less than a day after the latest "loves Linux" nonsense [techrights.org], we begin to see puff pieces, e.g. [1 [mspoweruser.com], 2 [cio.com], 3 [techcrunch.com]], which seem more like Microsoft advertisements than actual journalism. No critical thinking, no background/research, no fact-checking. Nothing. Just parroting Microsoft's marketing/propaganda.

"Microsoft today announced that it is joining the Eclipse Foundation," one 'journalist' wrote, "the open source group that's probably best known for its Eclipse IDE, but which also offers a number of other developer tools."

This is "embrace, extend, extinguish", for reasons we already explained in [...] past articles.

[...]Eclipse is actually against software patents [techrights.org], which Microsoft uses against Linux even this week [techrights.org]. What was the leadership of Eclipse thinking here? That Microsoft has changed? That there's a 'new' Microsoft? No such thing, it's all marketing/reputation laundering.

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