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Author: Steve Litt
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Subject: Re: [DNG] ..so, Orson Welles and Aldous Huxley predicted Microsoft & Lennart Poettering's "Brave New Trusted Boot World"? :oD [OT]
Peter Duffy said on Wed, 09 Nov 2022 10:51:13 +0000

>On Wed, 2022-11-09 at 08:52 +0000, Peter Duffy wrote:
>>
>> I'm just finding it really difficult to get a sense of which way the
>> wind's blowing at the moment and what's going on underneath the
>> headlines. What is the relationship between Redhat and Microsoft -
>> are
>> they bankrolling each other, and if so, is it all above board? It
>> just
>> seems as though LP's move from the former to the latter is being
>> viewed
>> as just a change of campus - as though it was known all along that it
>> would happen eventually, and was just part of the underlying
>> masterplan. 
>>
>
>Apologies for following up my own post. Trying to find something on the
>above which wasn't polarised and/or polemic, I found this, which seemed
>very interesting (as is his earlier article re. systemd):
>
>https://unixsheikh.com/articles/is-criticizing-tech-on-political-grounds-valid.html


Very, very nice. Also, follow some of his links to see other great
sans-systemd suggestions.

SteveT

Steve Litt
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