We have a very large 5th column funded by Putain & the Fanta Fascist. We can’t get complacent.

Good. The sooner the US pulls out the better, the newly fascist America isn’t going to uphold NATO anyway, so the sooner the band-aid is pulled off the better

So the Palantir whitewashing has started, seems the backlash has scared the techno-fascists. A shame the Guardian is uncritically on board. Feels more like a Daily Heil or terrorgraph sort of article

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish

OP has a reasonable concern, Microsoft has had a troubling past history, and embrace extend extinguish hasn’t gone away, just look at the office file standards shenanigans.

It’s certainly the case that the purchase of github is intended to create a platform that has network effects (making it hard to leave).

Microsoft has proven many times that their participation in FOSS tends to come with a catch or an intent to subvert.

scientists and researchers, is that they throw more money at it.

You seem to be using the present tense there rather than the past tense. Are you sure that’s still true. I was under the impression the Bibulous Bumbling Bill had slashed research budgets (among other things like medicaid) in order to fund billionaire tax cuts.

Not to mention the attempts to proscribe what can be researched that Harvard is currently litigating

I’m saying the Marshalls are this body, they should be reassigned directly to the judiciary.

Which involves asking the oppressing person/organisation to hand over the capability to resist them.

“Please Mr Mugger, give me your gun, then you can’t rob me”

How exactly do you think that request is going to go ?