OSI and Canonical Helping Microsoft (UPDATEDx7)

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 16, 2022,
updated Aug 20, 2022

• Episode 1: Copyright, Selfie Monkeys and the Hand of God [Ed: And more chaff from OSI to cover up Microsoft GPL violations disguised as "Hey Hi" (while OSI takes bribes from Microsoft and the violators)]

  Did you know that in the United States a copyright can only exist when a work was created by a human author? This explains why a selfie taken by a monkey or texts purportedly created solely by the hand of God don’t qualify for U.S. copyright. The standard for copyright protection also requires originality and creativity on the part of the human or humans seeking copyright, and therefore copyright does not apply to works created primarily by machines, including computers.

• Microsoft and Canonical announce native .NET availability in Ubuntu 22.04 hosts and containers [Ed: Canonical is working for Microsoft and Microsoft didn't even buy Canonical! Canonical should submit antitrust complaints over Microsoft blocking Linux, not work with the abuser. Microsoft boosters cannot contain their excitement over Microsoft commandeering the competition. This is all about Microsoft, not Ubuntu, just like WSL [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]. Canonical isn't formally owned by Microsoft, it just voluntarily acts this way (Novell the Second). Since Canonical is privately owned, we don't really know who the financial holder/s of the company might be...]

• The First Point Release For Ubuntu 22.04 is Now Available

  Canonical has released the first point upgrade for Jammy Jellyfish which includes important new toolchains and fixes.

  Point releases for operating systems tend to not garner much excitement. However, Canonical has pulled off the unthinkable and made a point release not only a must-install, but the first version of the OS to offer a simplified path to upgrading from LTS to LTS. Users still on version 20.04 will eventually be prompted to upgrade to 22.04.1, without having to touch the command line. That’s a huge step forward and will make migrating to the latest LTS release far simpler than having to run a collection of commands.

UPDATE

Steven Vaughan-Nichols, Microsoft apologist

• Canonical adds .NET to Ubuntu 22.04 | ZDNet

  Microsoft and Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, have announced native .NET availability in Ubuntu 22.04. While open-source .NET has long been available in Ubuntu and other Linux distributions, this collaboration by Microsoft and Canonical will better secure the .NET software supply chain with enterprise-grade support.

This is all about proprietary software, and more so advancing Microsoft at the expense of its rivals.

• Microsoft’s .NET 6 Lands in Ubuntu 22.04 for MS-Oriented Linux Devs

  .NET 6 is now included in Ubuntu 22.04 repositories, so let’s see what the collaboration between Canonical and Microsoft brings us.

This is not good news. This is Canonical and Ubuntu defecting to Microsoft's proprietary fold.

• Canonical Officially Announced .NET Availability in Ubuntu 22.04

  Canonical and Microsft jointly announce official .NET SDK and runtime availability in Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish. In a blog post today, Canonical said that .NET runtime and SDK version 6, ASP.NET SDK is available to install in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. This enables .NET developers directly start developing products and services in Ubuntu. In addition, an OCI container image with .NET core and runtime is also available for further deployment and development.

As "Editor at Large, InfoWorld" Paul Krill continues to produce Microsoft puff pieces in IDG.

• Microsoft .NET 6 bundled with Ubuntu Linux | InfoWorld

  Microsoft’s flagship cross-platform development platform, .NET 6, is now available in Canonical’s Ubuntu Linux distribution. The goal is to simplify access to Microsoft’s development platform and improve Ubuntu as a platform for .NET application development, the companies said.

Is is worth noting that this is being celebrated by Microsoft sites. This is something Microsoft, not Linux, stands to gain from.

• .NET 6 Support Comes to Linux

• Canonical/Microsoft Partnership Puts .NET 6 into Ubuntu Linux

You search for Ubuntu an get Microsoft's proprietary stuff instead.

• Canonical and Microsoft Add .NET 6 Support to Ubuntu Linux

• .NET 6 comes to Ubuntu 22.04 • The Register

  Ubuntu and Microsoft have brought .NET 6 to the Ubuntu repositories, meaning that you can install it without adding any extra sources to the OS.

Microsoft Tim (Tim Anderson, a Microsoft operative inside media) is still propping up Microsoft interventions from within, inside Linux; he's no friend of Linux. Never was. The coy writing style conceals his true motivations, which are the same as Microsoft's.

• .NET 6 comes to Ubuntu – but where is MAUI for Linux? • DEVCLASS

  The first is that several .NET packages are now built by Canonical, supported by Canonical, and installable via a simple apt install command. Options include the full .NET SDK, or just the ASP.NET Core runtime, or just the .NET runtime. This is now Microsoft’s recommendation for .NET on Ubuntu, though developers waning the very latest builds should stick with the Microsoft packages.