06.21.16
Caricature: Bygmalion Patent Office
When money runs like water, even towards dubious causes
Summary: The latest cartoon regarding Battistelli’s European Patent Office
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InteLeaks – Part XXX: Harbor Research's Pseudo-scientific 'Research' for Intel, Bizarrely Suggesting a Microsoft Partnership for a Domain Largely Controlled or Dominated by Linux
The full document that Intel paid for and in turn used to justify cracking down on Free software (obliterating Free software-based workflows inside Intel), instead outsourcing all sorts of things to proprietary software traps of Microsoft
Chromium and Chrome Are Not Free Software But an Example of Microsoft-Fashioned Openwashing Tactics
It's time to reject Google's Web monopoly (shared with other companies but still an oligopoly); removing its Web browser would be a good start
Links 23/1/2021: Chromium Pains and New Debian Maintainers
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InteLeaks – Part XXIX: Harbor Research Did Not Produce a Study But an Elaborate Hoax for Intel, Suggesting Microsoft Partnership and Outsourcing Based on Zero Evidence and No Solid Rationale
The pseudo-scientific ‘report’ from Harbor Research is more of the same nonsense we’ve grown accustomed to; unethical if not rogue firms are being paid to lie — or to perpetuate falsehoods which someone stands to gain from
Video: The State of Communities Surrounding GNU/Linux Distributions
A discussion about the state of volunteer efforts going into the development, maintenance (in the 'maintainership' sense) and support/advocacy of GNU/Linux distros
IRC Proceedings: Friday, January 22, 2021
IRC logs for Friday, January 22, 2021
InteLeaks – Part XXVIII: Intel Served Report From Microsoft Boosters, Who Provide No Actual Evidence and No Science to Back Their Supposed 'Findings'
Findings and recommendations from Harbor 'Research' aren't based on any scientific methods, just perceived loyalty, branding, and a bunch of unsourced quotes (from unnamed people with ridiculous job titles like a soup of buzzwords)
Erosion of Communities, Ascent of Corporate-Industrial Fake Communities
Despite the attempts to manipulate/trick developers (and sometimes users) into becoming unpaid workforce of for-profit companies, there's an exodus back to real communities, which aren't subjected to the fury of wealthy shareholders who utterly dislike or simply don't care for software freedom
The Corporate 'Left' and the Open Source Pseudo 'Movement'
President Biden may not be as bad as his predecessor, but that hardly means very much; software freedom is still threatened, along with many other things
Links 22/1/2021: pfSense Plus, Endless OS Foundation, and Many Laptops With GNU/Linux
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The Linux Foundation is Trying to Obscure Racism Using Microsoft-Inspired Tactics (Vouchers Disguised as Actual Money)
The Linux Foundation and its PR stunts don’t help combat racism; one might argue that the Foundation is leveraging racism, which prevails in the US, to paint itself as benevolent and caring (offering immaterial things and self-serving press releases)
InteLeaks – Part XXVII: 'Pulling a Nokia' on Intel (Outsourcing to Microsoft)
The recommendation of an Intel marriage with Microsoft (even in units that deal mostly with Linux) is an insulting slap across the face of developers employed there; we take a look at recommendations made to IoTG (Intel) by a firm with Microsoft orientation
IRC Proceedings: Thursday, January 21, 2021
IRC logs for Thursday, January 21, 2021
InteLeaks – Part XXVI: Harbor Research is Horrible 'Research', Lacking Actual Technical Background
Having looked at the members of staff of Harbor Research (individually), it seems clearer now why they have an affinity for Microsoft and why they're directing Intel to liaise with Microsoft and become a prisoner of Microsoft (even in areas where Microsoft is increasingly irrelevant)
Links 21/1/2021: Raspberry Pi Pico, Ubuntu 21.04 Picks GNOME 3.38, KDE Plasma 5.21 Beta
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How a Newly Inaugurated President Biden Can Advance Software Freedom (If He Actually Wishes to Do So)
Techrights has 'Four Suggestions' to President Biden, the 46th 'front end' of American plutocracy
InteLeaks – Part XXV: Intel's Brain Drain Leads to Unusual Measures
As the company once known as 'chipzilla' loses its relevance and dominance in the market it's reaching out to retired people, trying to get them back onboard
Hey Hi (AI) is Just a Trojan Horse for Illegal Software Patents, According to EPO Management and Litigation Firms It's in Bed With
The longtime pushers or the lobby of patent profiteers just carry on pushing for software patents, nowadays latching onto the inane and unwarranted media hype around Hey Hi (AI) — a hype wave that was co-opted by EPO management to grant unlawful patents
The Central Staff Representatives (CSC) of the EPO Are Petitioning to End the Assault on EPO Staff
The EPO, just one month after the staff went on strike, is about to receive a compelling petition to stop the assault on EPO staff
InteLeaks – Part XXIV: Love for Microsoft, Not for Free Software or Whatever Replaces Microsoft
Intel is basing its big decisions on buzzwords and firms that master buzzwords; it's sad that instead of listening to Intel's own (in-house) engineers it's relying on a bunch of clowns who push 'Clown Computing' and 'apps' and 'UX'...
IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, January 20, 2021
IRC logs for Wednesday, January 20, 2021
Links 21/1/2021: Google Tightens the Screws on Chromium, VideoLAN VLC 3.0.12
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IBM Panics and Resorts to 'Customer Retention' Tactics With Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
IBM 'frees' RHEL but with limitations that can restrict growth of small companies (or subject them to financial barriers, originally unforeseen)
Recent Techrights Articles About President Joe Biden
Instead of writing yet more stuff about the latest US president, let's look back at what we wrote in recent weeks/months
Links 20/1/2021: LibreOffice 7.1 RC2 and the RHEL Contingency
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InteLeaks – Part XXIII: Intel Paying for Bogus 'Research' 'Insights' Which Merely Seek to Justify Outsourcing to Microsoft and Imposing Microsoft's Proprietary Software on Free Software Developers
Intel's preference for Microsoft monopoly (an imposed/top-down decision) was seemingly certified by so-called 'consultants' and 'analysts' from the outside rather than the inside, basically manufacturing a false perception of consent after managers had already made up their minds
Suppressed Facts of the Free Software Movement and Its Community of Volunteers – Part V: How FSF Secrecy Ended Up Insulting People, Alienating Trans Developers
Having just uploaded this introductory video, we delve into the backstory or the real reason the FSF sank into somewhat of a crisis with the trans community almost half a decade ago
InteLeaks – Part XXII: Bubbles and Buzzwords, No Substance at Intel's Internet of Things (IoT) Group (IOTG)
The video above is continuation of the previous part about a document full of superficial buzzwords (not technical jargon anywhere), in effect recommending to managers that they blindly follow trends and cargo cults (such as Clown Computing) and not what’s most suitable for technical excellence
IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, January 19, 2021
IRC logs for Tuesday, January 19, 2021
Links 20/1/2021: WireGuard for pfSense and New US President
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