TechBytes Episode 33: Patent 'Thieves' and News That Deceives

Show overview	Show title	Date recorded
Episode 1: Brandon from Fedora	TechBytes Episode 1: Apple, Microsoft, Bundling, and Fedora 14 (With Special Guest Brandon Lozza)	1/11/2010
Episode 2: No guests	TechBytes Episode 2: Ubuntu's One Way, Silverlight Goes Dark, and GNU Octave Discovered	7/11/2010
Episode 3: No guests	TechBytes Episode 3: Games, Wayland, Xfce, Restrictive Application Stores, and Office Suites	8/11/2010
Episode 4: No guests	TechBytes Episode 4: Fedora 14 Impressions, MPAA et al. Payday, and Emma Lee's Magic	9/11/2010
Episode 5: No guests	TechBytes Episode 5: Windows Loses to Linux in Phones, GNU/Linux Desktop Market Share Estimations, and Much More	12/11/2010
Episode 6: No guests	TechBytes Episode 6: KINect a Cheapo Gadget, Sharing Perceptually Criminalised, Fedora and Fusion 14 in Review	13/11/2010
Episode 7: No guests	TechBytes Episode 7: FUD From The Economist, New Releases, and Linux Eureka Moment at Netflix	14/11/2010
Episode 8: Gordon Sinclair on Linux Mint	TechBytes Episode 8: Linux Mint Special With Gordon Sinclair (ThistleWeb)	15/11/2010
Episode 9: Gordon Sinclair returns	TechBytes Episode 9: The Potentially Permanent Return of ThistleWeb	17/11/2010
Episode 10: Special show format	TechBytes Episode 10: Microsoft FUD and Dirty Tactics Against GNU/Linux	19/11/2010
Episode 11: Part 2 of special show	TechBytes Episode 11: Microsoft FUD and Dirty Tactics Against GNU/Linux - Part II	21/11/2010
Episode 12: Novell special	TechBytes Episode 12: Novell Sold for Microsoft Gains	23/11/2010
Episode 13: No guests	TechBytes Episode 13: Copyfight, Wikileaks, and Other Chat	28/11/2010
Episode 14: Patents special	TechBytes Episode 14: Software Patents in Phones, Android, and in General	29/11/2010
Episode 15: No guests	TechBytes Episode 15: Google Chrome OS, Windows Refund, and Side Topics Like Wikileaks	30/11/2010

Show overview	Show title	Date recorded
Episode 16: No guests	TechBytes Episode 16: Bribes for Reviews, GNU/Linux News, and Wikileaks Opinions	3/12/2010
Episode 17: No guests	TechBytes Episode 17: Chrome OS Imminent, Wikileaks Spreads to Mirrors, 'Open' Microsoft	5/12/2010
Episode 18: No guests	TechBytes Episode 18: Chrome OS, Sharing, Freedom, and Wikileaks	11/12/2010
Episode 19: No guests	TechBytes Episode 19: GNU/Linux Market Share on Desktop at 4%, Microsoft Declining, and ChromeOS is Coming	16/12/2010
Episode 20: No guests	TechBytes Episode 20: GNU/Linux Gamers Pay More for Games, Other Discussions	18/12/2010
Episode 21: No guests	TechBytes Episode 21: Copyright Abuses, Agitators and Trolls, Starting a New Site	20/12/2010
Episode 22: No special guests	TechBytes Episode 22: Freedom Debate and Picks of the Year	27/12/2010

Show overview	Show title	Date recorded
Episode 23: Tim, Gordon, and Roy	TechBytes Episode 23: Failuresfest and 2011 Predictions	2/1/2011
Episode 24: Tim, Gordon, and Roy	TechBytes Episode 24: Android, Microsoft's President Departure, and Privacy	10/1/2011
Episode 25: Tim and Roy	TechBytes Episode 25: Mono, Ubuntu, Android, and More	14/1/2011
Episode 26: Tim and Roy	TechBytes Episode 26: €£98 GNU/Linux Computer, Stuxnet's Government Roots, and More	18/1/2011
Episode 27: Tim, Gordon, and Roy	TechBytes Episode 27: Linux Phones, Pardus, Trusting One's Government-funded Distribution, and Much More	22/1/2011
Episode 28: Tim, Gordon, and Roy	TechBytes Episode 28: The Weekend After Microsoft's Results and LCA	30/1/2011
Episode 29: Tim, Gordon, and Roy	TechBytes Episode 29: KDE, Other Desktop Environments, and Programming	31/1/2011

Show overview	Show title	Date recorded
Episode 30: Tim, Gordon, and Roy	TechBytes Episode 30: Microsoft at FOSDEM, Debian Release, and Anonymous	7/2/2011
Episode 31: Tim and Roy	TechBytes Episode 31: Nokiasoft and Computer Games	13/2/2011
Episode 32: Tim and Roy	TechBytes Episode 32: Desktop Environments, Computer Games, Android and Ubuntu as the 'New Linux', Copyright Mentality	22/2/2011

Security is Desirable, But Not When the Term Security is Misused to Imply Centralisation of "Trust" (Whose?): 'Security' is not an excuse for vendor lock-in
The Media Helps Microsoft, Amazon and Others (GAFAM and Beyond) Lie About Mass Layoffs Amid Valuation Bubble: The media, instead of saying that there's an "AI bubble" crashing the economy might instead choose the narrative of "jobs replaced by AI"
Bad Tempered? You Might Have Just Given Away That You're Losing the Argument: Brett Wilson LLP is fully aware that it is being investigated
[Video] Dr. Richard Stallman at Technické Univerzitě v Liberci: New/via libre-liberec.cz
Slopwatch: LinuxSecurity, Linux Journal (Slashdot Media), UbuntuPIT, and Google News (Noise): egregious plagiarism
Links 17/10/2025: Better Answers Sought After Air Crashes, "China Fans Patriotic Sentiment as Trade War With U.S. Heats Up": Links for the day
Links 17/10/2025: Fentanylware (CheeTok) Causing Problems, Japanese Government Blasts Slop: Links for the day
The Linux Foundation Seems to Have Turned Linux.com Not Only Into a Spamfarm But Also LLM Slopfarm: it's polluting the Web, even important domains like Linux.com, with spam and LLM slop
Links 17/10/2025: UK’s Largest Breach Penalty and Windows TCO Examples: Links for the day
Go Watch Video About Librephone, Get Microsoft Ads: Very ethical company...
Campaign of Defamation Against the People Who Built NixOS (and Are Now Pushed Out From Their Own Project): We've already grown familiar with - and resistant to - such tactics
Links 17/10/2025: Nestlé Crisis, Canada Post Versus 'Gig Economy' [sic] and Vista 11 Breaks Itself: Links for the day
Tux Machines Has Helped Separate Opinions/Analysis From News: In September 2023 we decided to split things apart and not repeat links in both sites
Tux Machines Has Improved Navigation of GNU/Linux and BSD News: Some more 'wiring' work
What a World Would Look Like If Everyone Used Free Software Only: Freedom is what matters, not "Open".
Richard Stallman (RMS) is a Target of Defamation Campaigns Because of His Views on Software (But Politics Are the Excuse for Defaming Him): Here in this site we try to refrain from politics, except in Daily Links
End of Vista 10 and Rise of GNU/Linux as Client Side Operating System: It seems certain GNU/Linux will grow in popularity over time
Taking Stock of a Week's Worth of EPO Leaks: We remain committed to exposing EPO corruption as long as it keeps happening
Mathieu Parreaux claims FINMA knew since day one: Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
Calumny, Libel, Joerg Jaspert & debian-private untouchable cyberbullies: Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Thursday, October 16, 2025: IRC logs for Thursday, October 16, 2025
Techrights Turns 19 in 3 Weeks: coverage of suppressed topics and protecting all sources/whistleblowers
International E-Waste Day Same Day as End of Vista 10: message from Akira Urushibata
The EPO's Central Staff Committee Presents Evidence That Staff Compensation Lowered While the Office Increases Income by Illegally Granting Invalid Patents: These people become millionaires by doing illegal things
Second or Third Wave of Microsoft Mass Layoffs in October 2025, This Time Portugal: Those are just the ones we know about, there may be several more
'Help Net Security' (helpnetsecurity.com) May Have Become a Slopfarm as Well: Zeljka Zorz, Editor-in-Chief at Help Net Security, was reported to us
Gemini Links 17/10/2025: Rant About Network Solutions, Strange Anomaly on Lagrange: Links for the day
EPO Staff Representation Lacks Social Dialogue With Relevant Management, Controversial and Sometimes Illegal Policies Implemented Without Necessary Input: "In this open letter, the CSC requests that the President submits an agenda item in the next available General Consultative Committee (GCC) meeting on setting up regular meetings between the CSC and the higher management of DG1."
Links 16/10/2025: Political Leftovers and Gemini Protocol Links: Links for the day
Lies Need to be Corrected: the Court never invited us
Slopwatch: Guardian Digital (linuxsecurity.com), Slashdot, Google News, and More: Maybe one day, once the bubble pops completely, Google News will just outright delist all slopfarms
Lufthansa Modern Slavery, Joerg Jaspert (ganneff) & Debian NSB Softwareentwicklung charade: Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
Links 16/10/2025: US Starting More Trade Wars With China, CIA War on Venezuela: Links for the day
SUSE Blog is Still LLM Slop, Marketing Manager at SUSE Cannot Write: Would you buy from a company or seek support from a company that cannot even write (or fakes writing)?
Pretend You're Not Dead: Microsoft Spent Almost Two Decades Rebranding Things as "Cloud, Then "AI", Now "XBox" and "Quantum": "AI" bubble pops, Microsoft harping about "quantum" already
IBM Allegedly Found New Tricks for Silent Layoffs: LPI, Then MIS (Not PIP): Remember that "Red Hat layoffs" won't be reported after the bluewashing
Links 16/10/2025: Red Lines and Feeding of Microsoft Trolls: Links for the day
MIT as a Propaganda Mill of GAFAM, Paid by GAFAM: "the news" today
Links 16/10/2025: Lies Euphemised as ‘Dueling Versions of Reality’ and Microsoft "Open" "Hey Hi" Resorts to Porn as No Business Model Was Found: Links for the day
The Local Staff Committee Munich (Representation of the EPO's Staff) Explains When Cluster of Pregnancies May Result in Reduced Pay: "...even one week of part-time working is sufficient to reduce the salary you perceive during the entirety of your maternity leave."
Another Black Eye for 'Secure Boot', Microsoft Media Tries to Blame "Linux": It enables Microsoft to remotely control computers, even computers that don't run Windows and never had any Microsoft software installed
Slopwatch: UbuntuPIT, linuxsecurity.com, and Various Slopfarms in Google News Attacking "Linux": A new survey of the Web said that the majority of the Web is now slop (that's being said in the news this week)
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, October 15, 2025: IRC logs for Wednesday, October 15, 2025
Links 16/10/2025: Increased Use of Social Control Media Surveillance in US, French Rage Over Pensions: Links for the day
Links 15/10/2025: Qantas Airways Loses Control of Sensitive Data and Software Patents Are Being Thrown Out: Links for the day
Vista 10 is 'Dead', Here's Why People Should Move to GNU/Linux (or the BSDs): Today we try to make an outline of reasons move away from Windows to GNU/Linux
Our Sites Continue to Improve: LLM slop has had no noticeable impact on us
Gemini Links 15/10/2025: Neovim, Helix Compared and Gemlog.blue Now Closed: Links for the day
Links 15/10/2025: Mass Layoffs at Amazon, OneDrive Spyware Revved Up, More 'Gen Z Protests': Links for the day
The EPO's Staff Engagement Survey 2025 is Already Tainted by Intimidation by EPO Management (Trying to Influence Outcomes by Scaring Genuine, Honest Critics): "[W]e have received reports that, following the previous survey, teams with negative responses were reproached or questioned about their answers..."
The DDoS Attacks by Microsoft's Scam Altman and Other Slop Charlatans and Frauds is Hurting the FSF, Delinking It From Copyleft Projects: This impacts a lot more than access to the licences
Microsoft Scanning Faces in Photos People Upload to Microsoft (Even Unconsciously), Slashdot Turns Report About It Into "Microsoft Sez" (Says): Or "let's repeat the lies from a PR person/Microsoft's publicist"
[Teaser] Angel Aledo Lopez the Manipulator (Nepotism, Poll Rigging, and Other EPO Corruption): We'll discuss this later today or tomorrow, based on internal EPO material
Attacks on Techrights Are Only Making Techrights Bigger and Even More Popular: A week ago they offered to settle with us
Epic Metaphor for End of IBM: "The IBM Demolition is Down to the Last Shards!": Nothing lasts forever
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, October 14, 2025: IRC logs for Tuesday, October 14, 2025
Proprietary and DRM Prisons Spiralling Down the Sinkhole? Not Just Yet.: Let's hope that more people will flee to GNU/Linux
The European Patent Office (EPO), the Second-Largest Institution in Europe, is Cracking Down on Recreational Activities: Without AMICALE activities, and as staff already says it's pressured to work more for less, how can the EPO recruit bright people?
Transparency: FSFE financial reports exclude speaker fees and expenses: Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

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