Links 21/02/2008: Lots on Open Source, Lots of Trouble at Redmond, WA
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2008-02-21 15:12:17 UTC
- Modified: 2008-02-21 15:16:19 UTC
Recent Techrights' Posts
- "Many Applications Labelled as "Cybersecurity" and Given a Veneer of Legitimacy Are Really "Weaponised" and Abusive Code"
- New from Dr. Andy Farnell
- Security Advisory: Debian falls for social engineering hacks
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- The High Cost of Making Scepticism of Proprietary Voting Machines a "Trump" and "Conspiracy Theory" Territory
- Time to get back to paper? Or read an old paper?
- Today We Got an Early Birthday Gift
- Exciting times
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- Links for the day
- [Teaster] [Meme] New Ways of Wrecking (NWoW)
- The EPO
- Gateway for News and Blogs
- In the long run, this site and its sister site (less overlap between them now) should hopefully become a popular destination for people who look for information, not chaff
- Going Even Faster
- We hope the site will be faster soon
- Psychopaths Who Reaffirm Our Work's Value
- Psychopaths and sociopaths lack empathy, so they're willing to go very far and stoop as low as they deem necessary
- [Meme] How Low Can You Go at the European Patent Office?
- Not just in terms of patent quality
- More Cuts/End to Benefits for EPO Workers (Europe's Working Conditions Incompatible With the European Patent Convention)
- "The Office is now reviving it but plans to introduce new cuts on benefits"
- Over at Tux Machines...
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- IRC logs for Thursday, November 07, 2024
- Gemini Links 08/11/2024: US Election, RetroChallenge 2024, and More
- Links for the day
- [Meme] Questioning Proprietary Software? Not OK...
- A disaster long in the making
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- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 07/11/2024: On Writing Publicly and Record Player Table
- Links for the day
- Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) Hosted SOSS as Microsoft Propaganda Platform With Microsoft Front Group OSI
- They essentially promote what they're attacking under false pretences [...] OSI is deeply corrupt. It's more toxic than arsenic.
- Anti-Linux FUD, Now in LLM Form, Thanks to Brittany Day
- They attack Linux with chatbots
- [Meme] When You Discredit People Who Discredit Secret Code
- proprietary systems with hundreds of millions of transistors (and hundreds of millions of lines of code)
- Links 07/11/2024: Online Manipulation in Social Control Media, Election Deniers, and More
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 07/11/2024: emacs-guix and File Hoarding
- Links for the day
- [Meme] Election Day at the European Patent Office
- Less than 60 minutes left to cast your vote
- Staff Union of the European Patent Office (SUEPO) Election Ending Today
- In one hour
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- many leaks received today
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- Some people can never be appeased because they prefer not to be appeased
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- Because he is a principled person, he does not prioritise loyalty to customers or employers (money)
- A President Trump is Excellent News to Microsoft
- His racist policies gave lots of contracts to Microsoft
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- Remember that only about 2% of the "Linux" Foundation's budget goes to Linux
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- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, November 06, 2024
- IRC logs for Wednesday, November 06, 2024
- Microsoft-Connected Publishers Want Us to Think That Linux is Some Sort of a Virus and a "Backdoor"
- "The problem is with windows and the attack vector is via Windows"
- We've Made it to 18! Here's to Another 18!
- Going on for another 18 years means until some time at the end of 2042
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- Links for the day
- Even LKML Subjected to Slop/SPAM by Guardian Digital, Inc (linuxsecurity.com)
- They're really awful
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- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 06/11/2024: Political Shock and Hermaic Encouragement
- Links for the day
- Planet Debian Allows Politics (But It Depends on Your Opinions and Debian's Big Sponsors)
- Planet Debian is OK with politics... as long as all your political opinions are the "correct" ones and you add cute animals
- What Makes RMS Such an Attractive Target ('Discreditisation' Campaigns)
- Don't be so easily fooled
- The Biggest OEMs or Vendors of GNU/Linux Stopped Competing With Microsoft (Which Pays Them to Promote Windows, Too)
- Where are the competition authorities (or regulators for that matter)?
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- In Gemini Protocol, certificates for encryption are required, but centralised Certificate Authorities (CAs) aren't needed
- Computer-Generator Crap Flooding the Web, the Latest Example About "Linux"
- Here's today's example
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- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 06/11/2024: Stargazing and Death on Hallowe'en
- Links for the day
- Would You Trust a Liar?
- Why lie about the authorship?
- Mass Layoffs at Mozilla Announced During US Elections
- Maybe nobody will notice?
- [Meme] Announcing "Results" Before Everyone Even "Played"
- There is a "tech" angle to otherwise political news
- US Polls Close in One Minute (Social Control Media Does Not Care, Will Not Wait)
- US election results will be known in about 2 days
- Concentration and Centralisation Versus Aggregation or Syndication
- KDE has a history of burying old sites
- Social Control Media, Even Hours Before Polls Have Closed
- Has social control media controlled by CPC (TikTok) and the Trumpmobile guy (Musk's "X") done enough to convince people not to even vote (based on presumptive "results", presented a long time before all polls have closed)?
- Over at Tux Machines...
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- IRC logs for Tuesday, November 05, 2024
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- Few people and companies use Wayland; there's hardly any technical or practical reason to choose it
- IBM Still Conflating Microsoft With 'Security'
- As a meme
- Sanctions Cause Fragmentation in Software
- some Chinese Linux developers are already subjected to restrictions similar to Russians'
- Web Failing With Slop, Even in 'Linux' Sites (LLM Spam)
- Add SEO prompting to the mix and the Web becomes a pool of slop, not knowledge
- [Meme] State of the World Wide Web and Online Journalism
- Technically a failure (DRM) and cannot even get basic things right
- Trump's signature policy, building a wall, copied from Irish-Australian student politician
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- Linus Torvalds' self-deprecating LKML CoC mail linked to Hitler's first writing: Gemlich letter
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- [Meme] Turning 18 in One Day
- just one more day
Comments
CoolGuy
2008-02-21 16:45:45
steve got pwned by larry.
seriously i think M$ is loosing out and steve has lost control over what he is doing. this is a guy who has zero technical knowledge, has never written a single line of code, cant make out any difference between a asp or php code...lol. i dont know if any m$ executive has advised steve over the technical hurdles of moving yahoo to m$ technology.
rofl.i think no one will dare to go near the chair throwing ninja.
entire blame of M$ doom will be on steve and bill has side stepped out of this mess really easy.
by doing a hostile take over - this is really going to blow out of proportion. everyone is making fun of m$ so openly, they have become a joke of what m$ used to be a decade back.
look at the action figures / toys stuff m$ is doing lately. everyone is laughing at them. they are trying so hard to be like google. haha.
just cant stop laughing.
CoolGuy
2008-02-21 16:49:00
BoomBoom
2008-02-21 18:28:35
- A BB for a brain in an empty head. Shake him and hear him rattle! - A pile of stolen patents for things someone else invented! - Extra sweat! - Awesome monkeydance action! - Developers developers developers developers! - Buggy software that doesn't work! - Buggy patches for buggy software that *still* doesn't work! - A fake sense of security! (along with thousands of exploits and weaknesses) - An EULA written by the Ghost of Stalin and the RIAA! - MONO! (Both the poisonware and the disease) - Office chair grenades! - FUD machinegun! - Arrogance out the wazoo! - Megalomaniac world domination plans! - And not a snowball's chance in Hell of ever having a clue.
:P
Roy Schestowitz
2008-02-21 22:39:12
This VNUnet article dovetails nicely with the recent piece on Groklaw[1]
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2210121/microsoft-engages-proxy-fight
I wonder if a deep-cutting summary or analysis can be written to Slashdot without using the M-word.
The plan seems to be to lobby and intrigue behind the scenes to replace the board with a more obedient set. Before that happens, Yahoo should re-license Zimbra as GPL. Also, how big a contributer is Yahoo to open source development in general and BSD in particular? That could be one of the main motivations for hostile take over.
I also notice that the astroturfers have returned to slashdot in droves since about Monday or so and, probably related, there is article after article of advertising.
[1] http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20071023002351958
Also, about the last attempts to save the cash cow :
Houston, we have a problem ... ... when trying to paint a nice face before the BRM ...
Google News Alert for: (OpenDocument OR ODF) AND ("Ecma 376" OR OXML OR OOXML OR "office open xml" OR "open XML")
Microsoft pledges not to sue over open source CNet News.com Blog - USA The company does not natively support the alternative Open Document Format, or ODF, standard in Office 2007. Although it does not mention ODF specifically ... See all stories on this topic
MS to publish free APIs for Windows, Office Electronista - Santa Clara,CA,USA Office 2007 has been a particular subject of investigation and has been criticized for its switch to the Microsoft-made Office Open XML (OOXML) standard, ... See all stories on this topic
Microsoft Promises Interoperability Digitaltrends.com - Lake Oswego,OR,USA Microsoft also says it won't sue open source developers who build or distribute non-commercial implementations of its protocols, although developers who ... See all stories on this topic
Microsoft is fighting. Don't give it too much room for manipulation.