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A comment on My Talk at Microsoft.

Re:My Talk at Microsoft by robteix on Monday September 23, 2019 @08:19AM (#21048181)
> There are those who think that Microsoft invited me to speak in the hope of seducing me away from the free software cause.

> Others assert that inviting me was opposition research and nothing more.

Honestly, why would Microsoft in 2019 even need to either convince RMS to give up free software or to research him at all?

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Re:My Talk at Microsoft by letstrynvm on Monday September 23, 2019 @08:49AM (#21048384)
Because in 2019 msft finds itself making big $$$ from renting servers running Linux and associated FOSS stack.
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