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Proprietary Dangers: Microsoft Entrapment and Open Automation Software
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Friday 6th of December 2019 09:41:40 PM Filed under
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Canonical makes Ubuntu for Windows SubSystem for Linux a priority [Ed: GNU/Linux volunteers worked hard to make an alternative to Windows and now comes Ubuntu helping Microsoft make it just an "app" or a "feature" of Windows, with Windows-only "extensions"]
Ubuntu was the first Linux supported by WSL on Windows 10. Since then, many other Linux distros have appeared on WSL. These include Debian, Fedora, Kali, openSUSE, and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES), and the WSL-specific distribution, PengWin. Now, from a recent Canonical job advertisement, we know Ubuntu's founding company wants to be the leading WSL Linux.
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Still in preview, but look! You can now develop Azure Sphere apps in Linux – if you dare [Ed: Several Microsoft lies packed into one article, even the feature image, and they help googlebomb "Linux" to sell proprietary software of Microsoft]
Ominously, Microsoft warns that "your success using different distributions may vary", so Ubuntu it is then. This is preview stuff after all.
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OAS Expands Its Platform Compatibility with Runtime Support for Linux
Open Automation Software, a well-established IoT Automation Company, has further expanded its platform compatibility with runtime support for Linux. With this recent development, the company aims to offer superior services to customers who have mixed platform environments. Over the years, Open Automation Software has set a benchmark in the field of industrial automation. Now, the company has expanded its platform compatibility for the enterprises that have both Windows and Linux OS servers.
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Openwashing and Entrapment (Microsoft GitHub)
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Tuesday 3rd of December 2019 04:37:16 PM Filed under

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Vendors move away from open source database software licensing
Database vendors have started to use their own open source style licenses in a bid to stave off cannibalization by large cloud players such as Amazon Web Services.
The promise of open source database software is that users can freely use the code as they choose. Open source isn't just a marketing hook, but rather a well-defined set of licenses that have been approved as open source by the Open Source Initiative (OSI) and are compliant with the Open Source Definition.
Many database vendors have long used an open core model, in which the foundational model is an open source licensed code base, with added enterprise-grade features for reporting, scalability and management available under a proprietary license.
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OmniOS Community Edition r151032e, r151030ae
OmniOS Community Edition weekly releases for w/c 2nd of December 2019 are now available.
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OmniOS Updated With Latest Intel Microcode, Better LX Zones Support For Newer Distros
OmniOS r151032e ships with the newest Intel CPU microcode in order to address the JCC Erratum issue, there is a fix for supporting USB hard drives greater than 2TB, OpenJDK has been updated, better support for recent Linux distribution releases within LX Zones, ZFS fixes, fixes to the SMB support, and various other fixes. LX Zones is a SmartOS/OmniOS feature for running Linux software in a lighterweight-than-a-VM environment.
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A picture is worth a thousand base pairs
Prospective users of these tools can find plentiful educational resources online, including video tutorials. The UCSC Genome Browser has two archived and searchable listservs, or electronic mailing lists: one for website and data questions, the other for queries on setting up and maintaining Genome Browser mirrors. JBrowse users can ask questions on Github or on the software’s open instant-messaging channel, but Holmes suggests contacting the developers directly. “We have some developers who really like getting feedback from users,” he says.
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Entrapment by Microsoft GitHub
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Sunday 1st of December 2019 04:32:08 PM Filed under
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SD Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Codidact [Ed: "In order to get involved, users can jump onto the forum, head to GitHub or use Discord to discuss ideas." So to participate in 'open' you must adopt malicious software that is proprietary.]
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Tencent Open-Sources High-Performance Graph Computing Framework ‘Plato’ [Ed: Tencent puts its code in proprietary software of Microsoft as if it doesn't know how unwise that is]
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Alibaba Cloud opens source code for machine-learning platform Alink [Ed: This only makes sense if one considers Microsoft's collaboration with the Chinese government spying on a lot of people]
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Alibaba Makes Its Artificial Intelligence Platform Open Source [Ed: Alibaba gives its code to proprietary software of Microsoft where developers are censored and spied on]
The move to GitHub will make lives easier for big data specialists in the machine learning sector, and no doubt provide some useful ecosystem links to the Chinese giant.
Alibaba Cloud has made the core codes of its Alink data processing platform open-source to help widen the development opportunities for artificial intelligence and machine learning.
The algorithm platform has been made available on Microsoft-owned GitHub, the world’s largest developer community. The platform offers a broad range of algorithm libraries that support both batch and stream processing, which is critical for machine learning tasks.
Data analysts and software developers can access the codes on GitHub to build their own software, facilitating tasks such as statistics analysis, machine learning, real-time prediction, personalised recommendation and abnormality detection.
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Duke University Introduces an Open Source Tool as an Alternative to a Monolithic LMS
Developed by Duke’s Learning Innovation and the Office of Information Technology, Kits – now released as an alpha version – evolved from a home-grown group management solution and it was developed outside the LMS. “It brings together the centralized student access points of the LMS with the flexibility and power of an app-based system.”
Currently, eight applications are included on Kits, and three more are expected to arrive this year. Learning analytics are in the roadmap, too. The integration was done via LTI standard or API. In addition, Kits comes with a “custom link” option that allows both instructors and students to add any share-by-link application.
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Altibase Celebrates Its 20th Birthday as an Enterprise Grade Open Source Database [Ed: Seems unclear if it's open at all or just a trap]
"We have built that client base, in part, by competing head-to-head with such juggernauts as Oracle, IBM and MS – and winning. Simply put, Altibase is a viable alternative to mega legacy database," he adds.
"But being just an attractive alternative no longer suffices. To continue our success, we are adapting to two major changes currently taking place in the database market," Paul says.
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Entrapment in Microsoft GitHub
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Saturday 30th of November 2019 05:25:20 PM Filed under
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Alibaba Cloud makes available its self-developed algorithm via open source on Github [Ed: Outsourcing one's code to a proprietary spying and censorship platform of a foreign firm and foreign regime]
Launched in 2009 and headquartered in Singapore, the cloud subsidiary of Alibaba Group offers cloud computing services to enterprises.
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Alibaba Publishes AI Algorithms on Github [Ed: Alibaba gives its code to Microsoft to further facilitate surveillance]
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GitHub Seeks Security Dominance With Developers [Ed: GitHub is proprietary software in NSA PRISM, so assume back doors. Ignore these Forbes puff pieces of Microsoft (lots of them).]
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Rav1e Picks Up More Speed Optimizations For Rust-Written AV1 Encoding [Ed: Still stuck inside GitHub]
The Rust-based "rav1e" AV1 video encoder continues picking up performance optimizations.
During the month of November we've seen SSE4.1 and various x86 Assembly optimizations, other CPU performance optimizations, and also happening recently was the initial tagged release of rav1e (v0.1).
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Daniel Stenberg: curl: 25000 commits [Ed: Unhealthy dependence on GitHub]
The first ever public release of curl was uploaded on March 20, 1998. 7924 days ago.
3.15 commits per day on average since inception.
These 25000 commits have been authored by 751 different persons.
Through the years, 47 of these 751 authors have ever authored 10 commits or more within a single year. In fact, the largest number of people that did 10 commits or more within a single year is 13 that happened in both 2014 and 2017.
19 of the 751 authors did ten or more changes in more than one calendar year. 5 of the authors have done ten or more changes during ten or more years.
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Openwashing by Microsoft and the US Air Force
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Saturday 30th of November 2019 05:24:28 PM Filed under
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Microsoft Teams spurs open source in Aussie channel [Ed: Gross case of openwashing. How on Earth did Microsoft manage to have proprietary software that's mass surveillance inside businesses framed as "open source"?
Qbot is the brainchild of UNSW senior lecturer David Kellermann. Antares helped bring Qbot to life and, as it is the bot's primary developer, supports the code.
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US Air Force says they are developing an Open Source Jet Engine
The Responsive Open Source Engine (ROSE) is designed to be cheap enough that it can be disposable, which has obvious military applications for the Air Force such as small jet-powered drones or even missiles. But even for the pacifists in the audience, it’s hard not to get excited about the idea of a low-cost open source turbine. Obviously an engine this small would have limited use to commercial aviation, but hackers and makers have always been obsessed with small jet engines, and getting one fired up and self-sustaining has traditionally been something of a badge of honor.
The economies of scale generally dictate that anything produced in large enough numbers will eventually become cheap. But despite the fact that a few thousand of them are tearing across the sky above our heads at any given moment, turbine jet engines are still expensive to produce compared to other forms of propulsion. The United States Air Force Research Laboratory is hoping to change that by developing their own in-house, open source turbine engine that they believe could reduce costs by as much as 75%.
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Another Microsoft mess as Windows 10 November 2019 Update breaks File Explorer
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Tuesday 26th of November 2019 10:23:17 AM Filed under
When Microsoft announced that the Windows 10 November 2019 Update was going to be a rather minor release with only a few changes, many of us hoped that this would mean that its launch would be relatively problem free – but that unfortunately doesn’t seem to be the case, with users complaining that the new update is breaking File Explorer.
File Explorer is the app you use to browse the files and folders on your PC. So pretty important, then.
The biggest change the Windows 10 November 2019 Update brought was to update how you search File Explorer, giving you suggested files, and searching your online OneDrive account, when you use the search box to look for something.
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Microsoft restores services after it experienced a large global outage across numerous platforms
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Thursday 21st of November 2019 08:56:37 AM Filed under
Microsoft says it first addressed the issue at about 8:15 p.m. ET. As of 9:30 p.m. ET, the company said it identified access issues with the Microsoft 365 Admin Center, Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Microsoft Teams, Skype for Business, and Yammer.
The company said in a tweet that it "identified and reverted a networking build that caused user traffic from the internet to Microsoft 365 services to intermittently fail."
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Microsoft Claims a Monopoly Over 'Open Source'
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Monday 18th of November 2019 05:35:42 AM Filed under
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Pakistan makes impressive strides in open source development [Ed: More of that Microsoft FUD, reinforcing the lie that only projects Microsoft control should count and nothing else exists]
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Open Source: Tech Companies Commandeer Open Source [Ed: Formtek uses Microsoft data to spread Microsoft propaganda; as if FOSS does not exist except what Microsoft controls]
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Want to make the world a better place? Fund open source developers. [Ed: Microsoft is trying to hijack the narrative surrounding "Open Source", urging all developers to give all their work/code to proprietary software trap of Microsoft. In this ITWire Microsoft 'ad' the headline means "give money to Microsoft/GitHub" when it says "Fund open source developers."]
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Lots of Microsoft Openwashing This Past Week
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Sunday 17th of November 2019 03:32:53 PM Filed under
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GitHub launches Security Lab to protect open source code [Ed: Too much of the news portrays more proprietary software from Microsoft's GitHub as "open source" something. Misreporting.]
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GitHub launches 'Security Lab' to help secure open source ecosystem
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GitHub launches Security Lab to spot vulnerabilities in open-source code
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GitHub makes CodeQL free for research and open source [Ed: Openwashing of code from Semmle is now used to seduce developers into a proprietary trap of Microsoft which does surveillance and censorship of FOSS]
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GitHub Finally Has Its Own iOS and Android Apps [Ed: Of course the Microsoft GitHub 'apps' are proprietary software just like everything at GitHub.]
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Open Source Has Won Says GitHub CEO, Amid ICE Controversy [Ed: GitHub is proprietary software and this CEO is a mole who worked for Microsoft and then crossed over to attack FOSS from within, then came back to Microsoft. When he says "won" he means "Microsoft controls it".]
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GitHub: We're storing your open-source code in the frozen Arctic for 1,000 years [Ed: CBS tabloid ZDNet spreads Microsoft propaganda because Microsoft won't exist for 1000 years and human kind too might not last this long. Journalism these days is PR and lies.]
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GitHub launches Arctic Code Vault to preserve open source software for 1,000 years [Ed: People deserve mocking for writing this "Arctic Code Vault" nonsense, right from Microsoft's script. Microsoft won't last 1,000 years (no company does) and it's just a distraction from GitHub's help to ICE buildups.]
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GitHub will store all of its public open source code in an Arctic vault [Ed: GitHub's "Arctic vault" nonsense is so laughable for a lot of reasons]
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Open Source Code Will Survive the Apocalypse in an Arctic Cave
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Microsoft Is Hiding Source Code in an Apocalypse-Proof Cave
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Microsoft Is Hiding Open Source Code in an Apocalypse-Proof Storage Facility
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Microsoft is investing in apocalypse-proofing the world's code
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At Universe, GitHub rolls out Actions, Packages and more open-source goodies [Ed: GitHub staff is fleeing (for many reasons), so Microsoft does anything it can to distract from the evil it made GitHub become to appease Donald Trump and the Pentagon]
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Sonatype Delivers Premium Open Source Controls to GitHub Users [Ed: Sonatype works for Microsoft's proprietary software surveillance network. Everyone knows GitHub is proprietary software, right? Just like CommunityBridge -- the thing Microsoft pays the Linux Foundation to run for the benefit of Microsoft lock-in.]
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Sonatype Delivers Premium Open Source Controls to GitHub Users [Ed: Sonatype works serve you unless you're a slave of Microsoft (giving all the code to them while censored and spies on)]
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Top 10 Fastest-Growing Open Source Projects By Github Contributors [Ed: Analytics India Magazine thinks FOSS projects that are not 100% controlled by Microsoft do not exist, do not count, should be ignored]
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GitHub State of the Octoverse 2019 - Python popular, data science apps on the rise [Ed: Microsofttries hard to come across as 'the' spokesperson of FOSS]
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Q&A: Inside Microsoft’s embrace of GitHub’s strong open-source community [Ed: This 'article' is 100% Microsoft ad complete with all the 'right' Microsoft lies. How much does Microsoft pay this site?]
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Allianz & Microsoft partner on open-source insurance platform [Ed: This has nothing to do with "open source". It's 100% Microsoft openwashing.]
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Marvell ThunderX2 chosen for Microsoft’s open-source cloud design [Ed: Openwashing of Microsoft surveillance 'cloud']
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Microsoft promotes proprietary software using "Linux" (so "Linux" news today is all Microsoft)
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Tuesday 5th of November 2019 10:29:50 PM Filed under


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It’s Official: Microsoft Edge is Coming to Linux [Ed: So Micosoft is again hijacking the Linux brand to promote proprietary software that spies. Those who promote Microsoft spyware on GNU/Linux do not support GNU/Linux; they support Microsoft, which views Linux as a cancer to be eliminated if possible.]
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Microsoft's Chromium-Based Edge Browser Available as Release Candidate
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Microsoft confirm their new Chromium-powered Edge browser is coming to Linux
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It's Official: Chromium-Based Microsoft Edge Web Browser Is Coming to Linux
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Microsoft Will Release Their Edge Web Browser For Linux
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Microsoft is bringing Edge to Linux, for all the Microsoft fans running Linux*
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Microsoft's Edge browser is officially coming to Linux soon
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Hana And Linux On Microsoft Azure
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