Links 07/02/2008: Yahoo Doesn't Want Microsoft, Better Linux CloudBooks Foreseen
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2008-02-07 16:10:17 UTC
- Modified: 2008-02-07 16:10:17 UTC
Recent Techrights' Posts
- European Patent Office (EPO) Series: The Centre (in Portugal) Falls Apart…
- Luís Montenegro became embroiled in a conflict-of-interest controversy
- Links 10/06/2026: More Microsoft Layoffs, Sweden to "Ban Mobile Phones in Schools"
- Links for the day
-
- SLAPP Censorship - Part 103 Out of 200: Telling People What They Know and Don't Know About Death Threats They Receive
- patronising letters sent on behalf of the Serial Strangler from Microsoft
- IBM Genies in the Bottle
- for ordinary people working who at at IBM, it's not hard to see that IBM is floundering
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, June 10, 2026
- IRC logs for Wednesday, June 10, 2026
- Links 11/06/2026: LF Openwashing of Slop and "Azerbaijan Bans TikTok and Other Social Media Apps in School"
- Links for the day
- IBM Lost About 18% of Its "Market Value" This Month
- In IBM's case, a lot of the latest "pump" was Arvind's "quantum" hype/fantasy
- Gemini Links 10/06/2026: Signal to Noise, Cancer, and Permacomputing
- Links for the day
- Communities and "Prosumers."
- today's meetup will be about community
- Gemini and Gopher Links 10/06/2026: Roasting, Changes, and Harms of Slop
- Links for the day
- Microsoft Azure Shrinking With More Mass Layoffs
- "Reports suggest the layoffs will impact close to 200 out of 400 workers, who are set to cease employment at Azure on July 6"
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, June 09, 2026
- IRC logs for Tuesday, June 09, 2026
- European Patent Office (EPO) Series: The Centre-Right "Social Democratic Party" in Portugal
- Quite an achievement for a former Maoist radical and aspiring champion of the Portuguese proletariat to be invited to join Goldman Sachs
- SLAPP Censorship - Part 102 Out of 200: Maybe One Day Whistleblowers From Brett Wilson LLP Will Tell Us What Really Happened
- Maybe one day some former staff of Brett Wilson LLP will also approach us to blow the whistle
- What LibreOffice and TDF Get Right About Document Formats (and What They Get Wrong)
- OOXML is a phantom - it is something nobody implements, not even Microsoft!
- Gemini Links 09/06/2026: "The Mist of the Lands Between", Board Game Concept
- Links for the day
- 2026: The Year Slop Companies "Made an Exit" (Threw in the Towel Over to Wall Street)
- Remember 2026 as the year two major slop companies (which we won't name) sought an IPO
- Links 09/06/2026: NSO Group still cracking, "FOI tribunal throws out £14k costs claim against journalist Barnie Choudhury"
- Links for the day
- Links 09/06/2026: "Smartphones Broke Dating" and "EU Open Source Strategy"
- Links for the day
- Cannot Speak About IBM Wrongdoing or Jobs Being Sent Overseas (Lower Salaries)
- IBM has long attacked the media, the whistleblowers, and even online forums
- European Patent Office (EPO) Series: The CIA-Funded Centre-Left in Portugal
- In the political turmoil which followed the fall of the old regime, the communists seemed to be acquiring a dominant position and there was a very real risk that Portugal could end up aligned with the Eastern Bloc if they were not stopped
- This Coming Friday
- Richard Stallman (RMS)
- Yesterday Afternoon The Register MS Published a Fake Article That Says "AI" 31 Times Because It Got Paid to Do This
- What will happen when all those loans for slop (Ponzi scheme) stop and companies' marketing budgets - which include media bribes for hype campaigns - are no more?
- Extraordinary General Meeting of Staff Union of the European Patent Office Ahead of Intensifying Strikes
- We will, in the meantime, run a series about EPO corruption, which is now connected to corruption in Portugal and to corruption inside the EU
- Several Slopfarms That Target "Linux" Seem to Have Died
- Or perished severely
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Monday, June 08, 2026
- IRC logs for Monday, June 08, 2026
- Gemini Links 09/06/2026: Tanana River, Cassette Beasts, and Emacs
- Links for the day