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| DATE | 2025-04-21 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [Hangout - NYLXS] gnome goes rougue? who would had thunk it
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https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/21/Microsoft_Has_Tainted_GNOME_Which_Has_Key_People_Acting_as_a_SL.shtml
Microsoft Has Tainted GNOME, Which Has Key People Acting as a SLAPP
Front Against Techrights (Trying to Censor the Site by Extortion and
Many Threats)
Roy Schestowitz
5–6 minutes
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Homeland of Linux Kernel Turning to GNU/Linux?
GNOME Has a Long History (Over a Decade) Misusing the Code of
Conduct (CoC) to Censor (Cull) Legitimate Technical Criticism
Don't worry, it'll come back sooner or later. The Law Society is as
biased on SLAPPs as it is on patents because it's deeply connected to
the litigation industry, as we explained and showed many times in the
more distant past.
In depth: King's speech - SLAPPs legislation languishes
Yesterday we wrote about GNOME because facts still matter. The principal
reason/motivation to revisit this subject was, GNOME is rogue; it was a
common denominator in the SLAPPs, aside from Microsoft (an overlapping
factor aplenty). This is the same GNOME which has been silently
silencing and "disappearing" people, as we saw last year (even elected
representation, i.e. people that GNOME users/developers trusted, got
expelled for secret reasons). Then, GNOME sacked women, not men, despite
GNOME being (already) dominated by men. What does GNOME have to say
about men who strangle women? Or slut-shaming by creeps in GNOME
clothing? Does GNOME think it is appropriate to put such people in
Planet GNOME?
There's a good reason why many women keep away from GNOME; women aren't
dumb. Nor should they become "collateral damage" in abuse against
reporters [1, 2] and productive developers (defamed as "Sexists").
The fist that slaps: Silencing critics, Strangling women, Sacking women
So what exactly goes on at GNOME these days, other than it running out
of money (like the SLAPPing firm, which entertains foreigners to attack
domestic sites because quality doesn't matter to broke firms)? Some
leaders quit without a proper explanation [1, 2, 3], perhaps seeing
skeletons in the closet (that they had not been properly informed
about). Did she find out about the SLAPPs too? One common denominator
(other than Microsoft salaries) is GNOME, which was led by an actual
professional crank until she quit so suddenly months ago. Another
leading person quit only days apart (they seem to also lack a
Treasurer). As for us? We were receiving intimidation letters from a
GNOME person, whose platform is run by the President of GNOME, Robert
McQueen. Then he got another GNOME person to do more SLAPPing.
Many people believe that because the G in GNOME stands (or stood) for
GNU it therefore means that the project is about freedom. Remember that
GNOME is trying to impose "secure boot" on everybody (to the point of
scaremongering against people who turn it off). GNOME is basically
promoting Microsoft monopoly and Microsoft control over PCs, even those
running GNU/Linux. We know what can - and does - go wrong.
So who's really running GNOME? What is its true mission?
The notion of misusing money to buy control over one's opposition isn't
unprecedented. We explained how this was done in GNOME Foundation, just
like Public Knowledge, OSI, and Linux Foundation (dominated by
Microsoft). When money buys seats and roles, then undermining
organisations becomes only a question of money.
"Microsoft has long had "moles" or "operatives" inside the competition
[we covered examples in the past]," Techrights said in IRC a day ago.
"This includes FOSS and Linux. Techrights gets "punished" for merely
"unmasking" or showing the evidence about them."
If Techrights managed to "blow the cover" of moles that seek to harm
rivals or turn rivals into devoured-by-Microsoft former rivals (coopting
them), then guess who will bear the brunt.
Techrights is simply showing facts. They don't like that. GNOME was run
Miguel de Icaza, followed by another Microsoft mole, Peters, who has
since then become a mole inside the Linux Foundation (from leading GNOME
to being a leading Microsoft mole inside "Linux", on Microsoft's
payroll, just like de Icaza, the predecessor). This pattern is trivial
to demonstrate, there's nothing speculative about it.
One reader said that drawing up an inventory of Microsofters on
FOSS-related boards and in executive positions at competitors would be
worth making, adding that "a complete review with additions might be
timely".
At the moment the best approach is to cover one institution at a time
(sometimes with screeenshots because pages 'break' over time), then tie
them together at the end. We need an index.
"I think most remain unaware / ignorant of just what extents Microsoft
infiltrates institutions, government, and other businesses," said the
reader, "no project or committee is too small to avoid their attentions".
We'll revisit GNOME in the future because directly - not just indirectly
- it plays a considerable role in censorship campaigns. Perhaps one can
expect a project that started in Mexico to uphold the same "freedom of
the press" standards as the country of origin. In the past few years me
and my family got more threats - including horrific deaths threats -
than I can recall and enumerate. █
RSF on Mexico
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