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Ubuntu Becomes Microsoft GitHub, Based on Decision Made by British Army Officer

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 06, 2025,

updated Jul 16, 2025

It certainly seems or feels like piecewise things are swapped/altered from traditional/well-tested to "move fast and break things"... or vendor lock-in/centralisation (a la Snaps). Worse yet, more and more of Ubuntu, in spite of past GitHub breaches, becomes Microsoft GitHub (now sudo):

Seager is at it again. He did the same to GNU just months ago.

The new 'sudo' (a name or term or generic alias that Microsoft abuses already) will be controlled by Microsoft, i.e. expect back doors (the CSO of GitHub spent decades at the NSA). Then again, this is what today's British government demands. They insinuate that what you use is dangerous if it does not have back doors.

No kidding. Read that again.

As we put it back in March, this is a "Push Away From GNU and GPL Led by Army Officers."

This project isn't GPL or even copyleft and notice how, ONCE AGAIN, this decision was made by a man from the British Army, including the spy agencies.

It's not like he has much relevant experience, either. So what is going on here?

You're hopeless, Canonical.

GNU may be mostly secure. Its commands or program implementations had decades to mature. Linux does not have back doors (that we know of). However, the way Ubuntu puts things together (and the components/"ingredients") is a mystery - perhaps an enigma worthy of another E.N.I.G.M.A.

Whose HR decision was this? It happened before. See "Man From Microsoft Runs the Ubuntu Project Now" (2013) or "Ubuntu Desktop Director of Engineering Has Only One Blog Post. It Promotes Microsoft Windows." (2025) █

Related: (about Debian)

• The Notorious, Catastrophic 2008 Debian OpenSSH Vulnerability

• Edward Brockelsby: how expelled hacker took over Debian's SSH2 package

• Preserving Information About Debian's SSH Blunder (Amid Revelations About Edward Brocklesby (ejb) and "Proximity to Oxford and GCHQ")