Yup, the entire culture of Google has nearly changed. It used to be coder- and innovation-driven, and open-source was a natural thing to support. Make more money by growing the pie, creating markets with new tech.

Now it seems it’s middle managers and MBAs calling the shots, and their strategy is generic business zero-sum mindset - lock down, restrict, extract. They still see the PR value in open-source, but that’s it.

Just becoming 1990s Microsoft or 1980s IBM.

Ah, the grand circle of enshittification.

You’ve fallen for one of the classic blunders!

TPM was known to be a DRM Trojan horse in 2004. Then everyone forgot about that fact.

Sure, pushing Linux is just a new angle, but don’t think for a second that TPM has any purpose other than making your own computer trust a cabal of corporations over you, the owner. And if there is a critical mass of TPM standardized hardware, such that a “trusted” environment is the standard, it will lock you out of major use cases on all “untrusted” systems, including Linux.

And that deserves a lot of outrage.

Tech execs when the shortage hits: I just had a brilliant idea! Let’s just give untrained junior vibe-coding engineers the power of senior engineers, and even more AI tools. Problem solved forever, bonus please!