Re: GNOME/Freedesktop/redhat incompetent or malicious influence

On Sun, 13 Oct 2024, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

On 2024-10-13, D <nospam@example.net> wrote:
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On Sun, 13 Oct 2024, Phillip Frabott wrote:
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In terms of how much MS there is in the infra, you are 100% right. There
are small initiatives here and there, for instance, München switched to
libreoffice, but usually what happens, is that Microsoft bribes the
politicians with promises of an R&D center employing X 100 or 1000 people
if they change back, and of course they do, since they are politicians and
not open source enthusiasts.

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Except, perhaps, for Venezuela.  I haven't heard much news lately about
how their open-source mandate was going - is it still in effect?

Venezuela is by now a failed state run by criminals, so I think they probably don't even follow their own rules.

Yeah I mean, MS would never "allow" it to happen. Until politicians are
willing to lose money, MS will continue to feed governments money to keep
them solidly on MS products. Which again, is where I can say that any
'speeding ticket' case that would be against MS will be quickly dismissed.

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I think france judged that MS has to unbundle teams from Office, and in
france it is illegal for them to give away their software since it risks
outcompeting the local competition. But I have not checked this, so
caveat emptor.

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I once got my hands on a copy of Window XP N - the N stands for "No
Internet Explorer", which was a European mandate.
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Fascinating! Never seen such a thing in europe. On the other hand, I've run linux 100% the past 2 decades and I only work with linux and the associated eco-system so fortunately I do not get exposed to windows that often.
My main source of filth is teams and chrome.

In my opinion, the EU will become a museum where rich tourists from the
rest of the world will go to experience food and culture. There will of
course be a tail of tech jobs in heavy industry, but all innovation will
leave the EU if its current socialist and pro-regulation agenda continues
for long.

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I fear this is coming to the US as well. "We the people" need to vote out
the politicians that are supporting this cause.

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Who will they vote in?  These days voting is like trying to decide
whether you want to be shot or stabbed.
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   Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
     -- The Who
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                                            But the issue is the younger
generations seem to want this to happen. Sadly I don't think they realize
how bad this is going to be for us over here but they won't realize it
until it's too late I'm afraid.

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It is sad - it's like watching drug addicts slip away.
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Sad to hear it. And is it still the case that neither US party has any
intention of actually lowering the debt of the country? If not, I would
imagine that it eventually will reach a level at which the credit rating
agencies cannot ignore it any longer, and that day will certainly send
shock waves throughout the global economy! =/

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I wonder whether national debt is even seen the same way as personal
debt.  It certainly doesn't seem that way.  If we as individuals ran
our finances the way governments run theirs, we'd be thrown in jail.

This is the biggest mistake in monetary policy in our times. The economy of the state should be run _exactly_ as the individual economy. If that was the case, we'd have much more stable markets, and happier long term prospects.