Summary: 25,000^th blog post published today (as expected some weeks ago); things have changed, but the goals are largely the same

OUR goal this year is to revert back/return to GNU/Linux coverage while maintaining both eyes on the European Patent Office (EPO) ball and to a lesser degree the USPTO. Things have changed a lot since 2006 (when we started); back then there was no "the cloud" and companies like Facebook were rather new and obscure. Back then we also did not envision that 35 U.S.C. ۤ 101 would come from SCOTUS, taking down virtually any US software patent, even at the Federal Circuit (historically pro-software patents). The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) did not exist until half a decade later and an "inter partes review" (IPR) was just some odd, foreign-sounding thing.

"We don't have/serve scripts, unlike a lot of Web sites that nowadays embed spyware like Google Analytics in all pages."Here we are 25,000 blog posts later (this one will be 25,003^rd, 115,949^th including drafts/versions) and we're still marching. We have seen record site traffic in Techrights this past week (about double the levels we saw half a decade ago), exceeding the prior week's record as well and blowing past previous such records. We don't keep logs for longer than 4 weeks (they all get deleted), so traffic levels are only ever judged by file size alone (logs get rotated every 7 days). We don't have/serve scripts, unlike a lot of Web sites that nowadays embed spyware like Google Analytics in all pages. We need these logs to help short-term DDOS protection (identifying abusive requesters). That's their sole purpose. Our next post will be a rant about Google Analytics and the likes of that. ⬆