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Links 3/9/2020: More GNU/Linux Laptops and Mesa 20.1.7
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[Meme] Well-Meaning Censorship, Judging by One's Own Beliefs
The old censorship/moderation debate
What's the Difference Between Moderation and Censorship?
Reprinted with permission from the Free Software Fellowship
Linus Torvalds is Wrong on Some Technical and Legal Issues, Set Aside All the Political Correctness 'Hooey'
Some people would rather talk about words, not code; and the aim seems to be removing lots of people who actually do all the coding, not much of the talking
'Linusgate' Leaked: Over 250 Messages About Code of Conduct Complaints Against Linus Torvalds
Debian 'canceling' the founder of Linux is no "small potatoes"; and considering the reason (or what this is done for; an expression of an opinion) we probably should be alarmed about ramifications for free speech
International Women's Day 2020, Debian's Cover-up of Harassment, Abuse and Exploitation
Reprinted with permission from Debian Community News
IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, September 02, 2020
IRC logs for Wednesday, September 02, 2020
Law360 Says the EPO's Popularity is Decreasing
Lustre is lost at the EPO, whose appeal is generally decreasing, just like quality or legal certainty associated with granted patents
It's Time for RMS to Come Out of the Closet
Richard Stallman (RMS) is still quiet and it's not helping software freedom one year after the 'lynching'
Debian's Human Rights Paradox
Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
Links 2/9/2020: Sparky 2020.09, TUXEDO Computers' Polaris 15 and 17
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Linux Foundation Works for Microsoft
Today’s Linux Foundation works for the purposes of proprietary software marketing, including Microsoft’s PR department and its lobbyists, who try to portray the Big Oil allies (proudly helping pollution and multi-million gallon leaks) as green, environmentalist and “open” (greenwashing and openwashing, ‘two in one’)
Links 2/8/2020: Linux Mint’s Warpinator, Qt 6.0 Feature Freeze, Endless OS 3.8.6, Linux From Scratch 10.0
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IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, September 01, 2020
IRC logs for Tuesday, September 01, 2020
What Does Democracy Mean in Free Software Communities?
Reprinted with permission from Debian Community News
We Still Need More Stallmans
For Free Software to free everyone, more will have to be done to spread both greater technical proficiency and greater advocacy for what (Bruce) Perens now calls the "differently-technical"
Daniel Lange and Debian, Aggression and Hypocrisy in Focus
Reprinted with permission from Debian Community News
[Meme] GitHub is Microsoft Proprietary Software Used Against Free/Open Source Software
We need to quit repeating the lie that Open Source is just Free software by another name
Net Applications Was Always Hostile Towards GNU/Linux (and Close to Microsoft), So Stop Measuring or Assessing 'Market Share' Based on What It Says
We're supposed to think that versions of Windows still have about 90% of the market; nothing could be further from the truth
Sometimes Diversity Programs Are About More Than Diversity
Sadly, many people out there don’t want to be painted as “bigots”, so they allow monopolists to make opposition to monopolies seem “toxic” and their activism an act of inherent “intolerance” (by fronting with diversity programs, never mind if those monopolists engage in ethnic genocide); they even ban words in the name of protecting minorities that they bomb
The Open Source Initiative in 2020 is Purely Farcical
With a President (top position) from Salesforce and no general manager (GM) anymore (both co-founders of the OSI also quit or were banned) the OSI in 2020 is just “open source” by name
Richard Stallman Explains Why Open Source Misses the Point and “is Not Enough”
Ignoring the weak English in the above subtitles, this is a public appearance in which GNU's founder explained why "Open Source" missed the point (that's Bruce Perens sitting beside him)
Codes of Conduct and Hypocrisy
Reprinted with permission from Debian Community News
[Meme] Turning 'Open Source' Into Another Proprietary Software Monopoly
Create a new messenger, dilute the message, aggregate everything in one place (centralisation), pass the whole proprietary collective to the fiercest enemy of software freedom and then declare that "open source has won" (it just means monopoly has won or taken over the competition/counterparts)
Studying the History of Free (Libre) Software and the Early Attempts to Co-opt it in the Mid/Late 1990s
Techrights has undertaken the task of long-term examination of the history of Free software, in particular the point at which corporations were taking control of the whole thing (under the banner of "Open Source")
[Meme] Drinking Proprietary Software Kool-Aid in the Name of 'Open Source'
Beware organisations that do not practise what they preach; they may in fact represent the interests not of what they're called after
Promoting Free Software and Free Communications on Social Control Media Networks
Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
IRC Proceedings: Monday, August 31, 2020
IRC logs for Monday, August 31, 2020
[Meme] An 'Open' FSF
The FSF must not get carried away and let itself be absorbed by the very attack on software freedom
Connecting Software Freedom and Human Rights
Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
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