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European FRAND (Related to SEP) Proponent and Famed Programmer Comes to Realise That It's Actually a “Scam”
Even people who have long promoted the practice of mandatory "licensing" (in effect patent tax one is unable to work around) are apparently changing their minds and their tune
Not Even a Single Corporate Journalist Has Written Anything About These Very Important Bits of News
Constant propaganda from patent maximalists has long infested the media, which is sometimes controlled and even bribed to set the tone and the agenda; important developments are being tucked away and require very deep digging for ordinary citizens to find
IRC Proceedings: Thursday, July 09, 2020
IRC logs for Thursday, July 09, 2020
Racism in Technology (and Who Typically Lectures Us About the Subject)
Racism is a real problem; some approaches to tackling racism, however, can also be problematic and those who take the lead 'on behalf' of victims tend to be opportunistic and privileged few (piggybacking others' grievances to further advance their financial agenda)
Links 10/7/2020: Debian 8 Long Term Support EOL, Mobian Project, Mesa 20.1.3
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[Humour] COVID-19 is Very, Very Afraid of Human Beings Making More Monopolies Instead of Fighting Together
The European Patent Office (EPO) to the rescue! Fighting a dangerous pandemic one profitable monopoly at a time!
The News is Never 'Slow', It's Just Journalism That's Slowing Down (and Investigative Journalism Coming Under Attack)
A mix of censorship and subtle mind control contribute to misinformed societies that shape their perception or misunderstanding of the world based on false measures of authority (where money can determine what is true and what is untrue); many topics remain completely untouched, leading to apathy in a vacuum; it's very much applicable to international organisations, which are presumed benign by virtue of being multi-national or supranational
Social Control Media is About Social Control and If It Doesn't Ban You It'll Shut Down Everyone's Account (One Day)
It’s time to leave the ‘Internet rot’ which is social control media well behind us; blogging and RSS/XML may seem like a thing of the past, but they may as well become the future (again; if we make the correct and informed choices)
Microsoft's Fingers in Every Pie: The Cult Mentality That Society Needs to Become Wary of
Microsoft and its co-founder (pretending to do his for-profit 'charity' via the Gates Foundation) are trying to control the world; in the process they've moved to control even their most potent competitor, according to Gates himself, which is GNU/Linux
Links 9/7/2020: Google’s Open Usage Commons, GNOME 3.36.4, Neptune 6.5
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IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, July 08, 2020
IRC logs for Wednesday, July 08, 2020
Links 8/7/2020: SUSE to Acquire Rancher Labs, Btrfs as Default in Fedora, Qt Creator 4.12.4
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Yes, Master
When the Linux Foundation tells us to tone down our language we ought to remember what kind of hypocritical stance these people have (note: the above have nothing to do with slavery, either)
Fraunhofer is Again Evergreening Software Patents to Maintain Its Codecs Cartel, Forcing Everyone to Pay to View/Stream Multimedia Files
The roller-coaster of software patents on multimedia isn't stopping; we know the culprits who can be named for perpetuating this injustice
[Humour/Meme] Focusing on the Bombings and Who's Included in the Bombings
Supremacist agenda disguised as "tolerant and inclusive" is still objectionable supremacist agenda
Manners Are a Good Thing. The Yardstick or the Standard of Manners Changes Over Time.
Entirely legitimate grievances of African-Americans are being exploited by people who aren’t even African-American (and usually don’t speak for African-Americans) to warp the debate from one about software ethics and technical issues, not to mention war crimes of companies that employ many programmers, to something which is unlikely to really help African-Americans (also, they don't employ any African-Americans)
IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, July 07, 2020
IRC logs for Tuesday, July 07, 2020
Links 8/7/2020: Huawei’s GNU/Linux PC, Sparky 5.12, and Endless OS 3.8.4 Released
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[Humour] Television Channels That Don't Speak of Real Looting But Participate in Looting
People may need to look beyond (or outside) the television screen to grasp what's going on
(Software) Freedom is Elusive Without the Ability to Concentrate
Software is consuming people's minds; to make matters worse, people have become so attached to such software that they're unable to see it and get away from it (they associate that software with "social life")
Monopolies Erode Freedom, Freedom Erodes Monopolies
"There are so many reasons that GitHub makes projects less free."
Links 7/7/2020: NomadBSD 1.3.2, Clonezilla Live 2.6.7 and DRM Comes to Cars
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[Humour] IAM Ranked Top for Quality of EPO Propaganda
Contrary to what the European Patent Office (EPO) keeps saying, patent quality is slipping very fast in Europe (based on the EPO's own analysis!) but patent trolls-funded publishers deny that
When They're Done With Patents on Foods and Recipes They'll Have Patents on Fashion, Taste and Smell
The mental dysfunction — an infectious condition — that says everything in the world must be patented should be resisted; it overlooks the fact that patents were introduced to protect/promote actual invention, not thoughts, feelings, nature and art
[Humour/Meme] IBM's Money is Unhealthy to the Free Software Foundation (FSF)
IBM will never be happy as long as RMS (Richard Stallman) has a say in the FSF — directly or indirectly — or even in the GNU Project, both of which he himself created back when IBM was the biggest monopolist
IRC Proceedings: Monday, July 06, 2020
IRC logs for Monday, July 06, 2020
Never Let IBM/Red Hat Lecture Us on Morality
Ethics and morality should not be taught by those who themselves need a lesson; in the meantime we're losing the courage to speak freely and those who commit atrocious acts like it a lot better that way
[Humour/Meme] Wear the Red Hat as the Open Org Becomes Openwash
IBM is changing Red Hat and not for the better; sooner or later IBM will become another Microsoft and changing from one to the other will be like swapping 'masters'
IBM is Imposing Non-Free, Privacy-Infringing Tools and Patent Tolls on Red Hat Staff
There are signs that Red Hat under IBM will be more like assimilation to IBM, not IBM assimilating to the 'Red Hat way' or the so-called 'open org'
They Tell the Free Software Community That It is Racist While Saying Nothing at All About Trump's Racism (Because He Gives Them Government and Military Contracts)
While their president compares 'foreign' people to a virus (using innuendo, dog whistles and racist rhetoric reminiscent of the Nazi era) the big US corporations (American surveillance giants) turn their attention to rather innocuous words inside people's code (which almost nobody sees anyway)
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