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Yes, in line with my thoughts.
But FOSS has an F - freedom - which is freedom of users, not IP creators.
So is such participation (including...

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You are absolutely right - but I did not make an argument about ill code entering FOSS code ...
my argument is about fostering monopoly power and...

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Your arguments are my arguments. MS does participate to gain something - to foster their monopoly.
So is this positive for users - or should one...

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One may easily think bigger ... much bigger ... and not even needing conspiracy theories - just
old behavior of monopoly companies in the past....

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Well ... apparently ... they have.
But they may try to get around GPL ... like LLVM ... and may pay some companies which have some IP in it ......

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By the way - is systemd already shared source?

Oh yes, we can guess what will happen: MS has dumped IBM with OS/2 and now ...
it...

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True, it uses systemd as that's the reason the discovered security relevant bugs in networkd-dispatcher - but that is not all, we should not forget...

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"at the Ubuntu 22.04 LTS versus Ubuntu 22.04 LTS performance" - one must be 20.04 LTS!

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I am happy that you have a good experience with Wayland ... but there were still some functionality missing - and after revoking Wayland as default with...

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I would agree with the 1st part - this LTS really is not up to the quality of former times.
But while KDE is making extreme progress to use Wayland,...

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I am not impressed of this release in particular an and the state of Ubuntu/Canonical in general.
As I have expressed before on Phoronix the installer...

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I thought that the new installer was used since 21.04 STS - as with my installation of Ubuntu versions I had a really bad experience.
22.10 STS...