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Michael Schultheiss, SPI, and 'Microsoft for Non Profits'

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 08, 2024

RESEARCHING a bunch of relatively old material, or catching up with things that we overlooked, we've dug up an agenda and meeting minutes from this past winter.

This is what SPI is dealing with these days: (among other things)

Some context:

spi microsoft debian

6983 is a request to merge a couple Microsoft Azure accounts. Lots of back and forth with Microsoft support expected.

Microsoft for Non Profits is too convoluted to be treated casually, specially given Debian's and The Mana World's requests for it are far from trivial. Given the expected amount of back-and-forth with Microsoft support, if no one is assigned to deal with it, it could easily take a year to finish, which would be plain incompetence from our side.

Given Microsoft's aggression against Free software, why give this any air or time of day (at all)? Does SPI have any principles after opening up its coffers or availing its bank account to Microsoft? This money is not untainted. Chris Lamb as Director alongside the president Michael C. Schultheiss should be smoke to a fire. They're prioritising big money and paying lawyers to censor critics (because Chris Lamb is a son of a barrister, apparently - hence he sees lawyering up as a solution to blunders, seeking cover-up instead of resolution) █