Openwashing: Microsoft, Facebook and More

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Why Your PC’s UEFI Firmware Needs Security Updates [Ed: Intel and Microsoft compromise users’ ownership of their machines]
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GitHub reflections: Was 2018 the year of open source? [Ed: So Microsoft is now the authority on its very competition, FOSS? Its spokesperson? This is called buying one's competition to control it, dominate the narrative, direction. We lost.]
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JavaScript Dominated Open Source in 2018 [Ed: Microsoft network with Microsoft-centric writers uses Microsoft as a source by which to assert/state where Free software is going, what's popular etc.]
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Oculus reveals DeepFocus, an open source AI renderer for varifocal VR
When Facebook’s Oculus unit revealed a next-generation prototype VR headset called Half Dome in May, one of its signature features was a “varifocal” display system that actually moved the screens inside to mimic focus changes in the user’s eyes. Now the company has revealed DeepFocus, the software rendering system used to power the varifocus feature, along with an interesting announcement: DeepFocus’ code and data are being open-sourced so researchers can learn how it works, and possibly improve it.
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CoinPoker Introduces Open-source Fair Shuffling Details [Ed: Openwashing by the gambling 'industry']
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Solar on schools advances with open source contracting [Ed: Latest example of openwashing is this "open source contracting"]
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Plume And OpenSync Initiative Swing For The Fences
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