11.08.13

17,000 Posts, 7 Years of Techrights, and Imminent Expansion

Posted in Site News at 12:38 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

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Summary: Techrights turns 7, a milestone is reached again, and Tux Machines is acquired to help advance GNU/Linux

AS pointed out by some tech/FOSS sites, we are closing the deal to buy Tux Machines. The payment has been made and within days we should be running Tux Machines, advancing GNU/Linux by advocacy.

Days ago we also quietly crossed a milestone by posting our 17,000th blog post. That’s about 2480 posts per year! We have slowed down in recent years because readers’ help is needed. Yesterday this site officially turned 7 (depending on what data is considered most significant, boycottnovell.com’s creation date is 2006-11-07 14:21:00) and if you appreciate what we do here, please consider making a contribution. The sum of contributions to this site (over the course of 7 years) is just slightly above $100, so I must depend on another full-time job. █

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