As somebody who witnessed the whole Microsoft "Helloween Documents" leak at the time I can assure you all kind of psyops are being pulled inside the more or less completely naive FOSS community.
The observed practices outlined in the Helloween Documents were a "crazy conspiracy theory" first as well. Until it turned out to be a very real conspiracy.
Re:An X11 apologist tries Wayland
by numeromancer on Monday September 19, 2022 @09:09AM
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Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from conspiracy.
/s just in case…