Openwashing and Microsoft's Attack/Entryism/FUD Against FOSS


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OpenGamma raises $10M in a growth funding round led by Dawn Capital [Ed: openwashing of OpenGamma]
This open-source approach was designed to disrupt the proprietary software platforms.
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Mad Science: David Ishee And His Open Source DIY Gene Hacking
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Broadband Forum Launches Open Source USP Agent, Fast-Tracking Connected Home Interoperability in the IoT Age
Broadband Forum announced it will provide an open source USP Agent implementation as it continues to evolve its User Services Platform (USP) to facilitate tomorrow’s Connected Home and accelerate interoperable Internet of Things (IoT) deployments.
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Open-Core Data Science Company Skymind Raises $11.5 Million [Ed: open core means proprietary software with "free bait"]
San Francisco-based Skymind announced it has raised $11.5 million in a Series A round of funding led by TransLink Capital. ServiceNow, Sumitomo’s Presidio Ventures, UpHonest Capital, and DCode with GovTech Fund also participated in this round along with early investors Y Combinator, Tencent, Mandra Capital, Hemi Ventures, and GMO Ventures. Including this round, Skymind has raised $17.9 million in total funding.
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This open-source e-bike can be built by anyone
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Uber Releases Kraken: An Open Source P2P Docker Registry
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Union of Adobe and Magento highlights role of open source in enterprise digital experience [Ed: No, Adobe has nothing to do with FOSS.]
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Open Source Integrators Provides Expertise on ITAR Projects [Ed: Open Source Integrators (OSI) is 'stealing' the Open Source Initiative's name]
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Open Source Initiative Outlines Interfaces and Issues [Ed: Misleading headline sounds like it talks of the OSI (the Open Source Initiative) but actually talks about a Microsoft- and Facebook-ed openwashing front group (on 'hardware')]
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Goldman’s Trading Floor Is Going Open-Source—Kind of
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Collision offering free tickets for coders active in open source community [Ed: but only if they use Microsoft GitHub. Collision's homepage names: "Peggy Johnson, Executive Vice President, Business Development at Microsoft"; Do not participate in such conferences which discriminate against people who don't use Microsoft.]
Major North American tech conference, Collision, is offering 2,000 free tickets for software developers that actively contribute to the open source community, in order to attend the event in Toronto taking place in May.
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Coders have until April 19 to apply, and can do so by connecting their Github account. Once applications have closed, the top 1,000 open source contributors will each receive two tickets to attend Collision, held in Toronto’s Enercare Centre from May 20 to 23.
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SD Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Azure Data Studio [Ed: SD Times, which Microsoft pays a lot of money to (advertising), helps the openwashing of Microsoft's NSA surveillance platform which is actually highly malicious and opaque]
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New Open Source Tool Formats Big Data for TensorFlow [Ed: Microsoft openwashing surveillance code]
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LinkedIn's newly open-sourced Avro2TF preps data for TensorFlow [Ed: Microsoft reveals how it is spying on people, but there's openwashing]
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CarGurus Engineers Do Their Part with Launch of Open Source Fund [Ed: CarGurus engages in openwashing of a financial endeavour rather than actual development]
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CarGurus gives back: Engineers launch Open Source Fund [Ed: CarGurus keeps calling it Open Source Fund", but it is just riding a buzzword]
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Toyota to make its electrification tech open-source [Ed: More openwashing by Toyota because this isn't about code and liberation]
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Microsoft and BMW develop open IoT platform for manufacturers [Ed: There is nothing "open" about it except the NSA back doors, which are open to intrusion]
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Microsoft teams up with BMW for the IoT-focused Open Manufacturing Platform [Ed: Do you want back doors that the CIA can activate inside your car and carmaker? There is also openwashing here.]
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Backdoor in popular open-source tool put 28 million users at risk [Ed: Anti-FOSS firm with Microsoft connections, Snyk. Back doors are in all of Microsoft's products, but they try to frame FOSS as a back doors issue.]
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Backdoor vulnerability in open source tool exposes thousands of apps to remote code execution [Ed: Microsoft and gang carry on badmouthing FOSS (Snyk in this case). The real back doors are in proprietary software, but Snyk would try to make it sound like a FOSS issue. Amazing spin.]
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Snyk Announces Integration With Bitbucket to Secure End-to-End Developer Workflows
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DevOps Chat: Container Security with WhiteSource Software’s David Habusha [Ed: Anti-FOSS pundit by Alan Shimel (used to attack RMS and FOSS over at IDG several years ago) now entertaining the Microsoft-connected FUD firm WhitesSurce]
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Top 5 New Open Source Security Vulnerabilities in March 2019 [Ed: Microsoft's partner WhiteSource, which makes money from smearing FOSS, keeps celebrating bugs in FOSS]
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DevOps Chat: F5’s NGINX Acquisition, with F5’s Lori MacVittie [Ed: Alan Shimel facilitating the openwashing of "open core" stunts and Microsoft allies from Seattle]
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Microsoft launches Visual Studio 2019 for Windows and Mac [Ed: Microsoft Emil (spent years at Conde Nast lying on Microsoft's behalf) is still pushing proprietary software of Microsoft from another employer. Openwashing in there also. Reminder: Visual Studio is proprietary software and it adds surveillance to code you compile with it, so even by standards of proprietary software is is very malicious and must be avoided. Microsoft uses "open core" (free bait) tactics to entice fools.]
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GA'day, mate: Open the plonk, turn up a banger, Visual Studio 2019 is officially here (don't get too excited, Mac devs) [Ed: El Reg participates in the openwashing of Visual Studio, which is proprietary software (and GitHub is used to advance this openwashing).]
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TypeScript 3.4 is out: Microsoft tweaks programming language to cut build times [Ed: CBS is advertising and openwashing Microsoft traps. People who are new to programming might fall for it.]
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Microsoft Claims Speed Edge With Open Source Python Type Checker [Ed: Microsoft is gradually taking over more aspects of Python; it already bought PyCon and Foundation staff]
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Why corporate acquisitions could be good for the open source community [iophk: "no, they're getting targeted and burned out by CoCs." Article by Pedro Anderson.]
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Not Every (Open Source) Cloud Has A Silver Lining [Ed: Not every law firm attacks FOSS. Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton does. It gives it "business" (sales using fear)]
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ABA review of IoT risks supports open-source security project principles [Ed: The American Bar Association is looking to make money from FOSS FUD]
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