09.29.10
IRC Proceedings: September 29th, 2010
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Guest Article: The Free Software Movement Should Come Out From the Box
"From now onwards we have to think from a user’s rights perspective and mobilise users of Free software. They should know what rights they ought to get."
IRC Proceedings: Friday, December 13, 2019
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Links 13/12/2019: QEMU 4.2.0, GNU Guile 2.9.7
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Links 13/12/2019: Zorin OS 15.1, Vim 8.2
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Linux Foundation Has Outsourced All the Licence Compliance Stuff to Microsoft, a Serial GPL Violator
OpenChain Specification/OpenChain Project and Automated Compliance Tooling (ACT) are yet more examples -- the latest of many -- of the Linux Foundation being outsourced to Microsoft, not only for code but also documentation and hosting
IRC Proceedings: Thursday, December 12, 2019
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Copyleft: Keeping Code Free
Now that news about "Linux" is dominated by promotion of proprietary software we ought to remember what perpetrators of such a strategy seek to eliminate
Plans That Worked, Plans That Failed
"I am still looking for good news, but the more good I try to find, the more nastiness I uncover. This is by far, Free software's worst year ever. 2019 Sucks!"
Links 12/12/2019: KDE Applications 19.12, Qt Creator 4.11, New VirtualBox
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Brand Dilution in Action
Microsoft's proprietary software which spies on people and businesses is getting a "free ride" on the "Linux" brand; and nobody seems to care, nobody seems to notice how perverse that it
At the EPO Money -- Not Quality -- is King
Financiers are ruining quality
The EPO's Strategic Failure 2023
Potemkin social dialogue
IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, December 11, 2019
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EPO Promoting Software Patents in Countries Where These Are Illegal
The EPO's vision of 'unitary' software patents (patents on algorithms in countries that disallow such patents, as per their national laws) won't materialise, but in the meantime a lot of Invalid Patents (IPs) are granted in the form of European Patents (EPs) and this is wrong
We Support GNU and the FSF But Remain Sceptical and Occasionally Worry About an RMS-less FSF
Richard Stallman (RMS) is not in charge of the FSF anymore (it's Stallman who created the FSF) and there's risk the decisions will be made by people who don't share Stallman's ethics or the FSF's spirit
Links 11/12/2019: Huawei Lobbied by Microsoft (Because of GNU/Linux) and Microsoft Still Googlebombs Linux to Promote 'Teams'
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Links 11/12/2019: Edge Native Working Group, CrossOver 19.0 Released
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Instead of Fixing Bug #1 Canonical/Ubuntu Contributes to Making the Bug Even More Severe (WSL/EEE)
Following one seminal report about Canonical financially contributing to Microsoft's EEE efforts — celebrated openly by GNU/Linux opponentsclosing bug #1 Ubuntu basically decided not that it was fixed but that it would no longer attempt to fix it (“wontfix”)
IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, December 10, 2019
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Today's Example of Microsoft's Faked 'Love'
“On 7 September 2017, users began noticing a message that stated “Skype for Business is now Microsoft Teams”. This was confirmed on 25 September 2017, at Microsoft’s annual Ignite conference,” according to Wikipedia
Links 10/12/2019: Kubernetes 1.17, Debian Init Systems GR
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'Cancel Culture' as 'Thoughtpolice' Creep
Richard Stallman spoke about an important aspect of censorship more than 2 decades ago (before “Open Source” even existed); it was published in Datamation (“Censoring My Software”) 23 years before a campaign of defamation on the Internet was used to remove him from MIT and FSF (censoring or ‘canceling’ Stallman himself)
Microsoft Still Hates GNU/Linux and Mark Shuttleworth Knows It (But He is Desperate for Money)
We're supposed to believe that a PR or image management (reputation laundering) campaign alone can turn Microsoft from GNU/Linux foe into friend/ally
Actions Against EPO Corruption and Unitary Patent (UPC) Injustice/Lobbying
The EPO is apparently going on strike again and an action against the UPC is scheduled for later this week (protest in Brussels)
“The Fifth Freedom as a Meme”
The issue with systemd (or SystemD) has provoked or at least stimulated discussions about the limits of the famous Four Freedoms
IRC Proceedings: Monday, December 09, 2019
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Demonstration Against Unitary Software Patents, Thursday 12 Dec in Brussels
FFII's call to demonstrate against the UPC
Links 9/12/2019: China on GNU/Linux, Canonical Wants Help to Improve Ubuntu
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Links 9/12/2019: Linux 5.5 RC1, EasyOS Buster 2.1.9
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IRC Proceedings: Sunday, December 08, 2019
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