Site Maintenance Ongoing

Dr. Roy Schestowitz

2019-06-30 09:31:32 UTC
Modified: 2019-06-30 09:31:32 UTC

Just writing endlessly isn't the goal. Maintenance is required too.

Maintenance

Summary: Behind the scenes -- so to speak -- Techrights is improving and growing; we should soon be able to produce more per day

TWO months ago we said we would spend a lot of effort organising the site and tidying things up (this was last said 5 weeks ago). Almost 26,000 blog posts later (and lots of documents, Wiki pages, media files etc.) we realise that old material isn't easy to find. A lot of it is still relevant. We've covered software patents in Europe for many years and software patents in the US since 2006, i.e. 8 years before Alice and long before 35 U.S.C. €§ 101. The history of this battle is long and complicated. I literally spent (but not wasted) my whole adult life fighting these things. I'm driven sorely by ideology -- the belief that these patents pose an existential risk to software development as we know it.

Today we add the following large Wiki pages, which are in effect index pages. For software:

As we said many times before, expect IBM's patent policy to be imposed on Red Hat. It won't be pretty.

For patents:

For Linux:

Other:

With help from iophk we've also made the following list of sites from which we often extract and find GNU/Linux news picks.

We've been making a lot of changes at the back end lately. They're not visible to users/readers, but they make us a lot more efficient and hopefully effective too. These changes are associated with backup, monitoring (of system events), security, efficiency, availability, workflow, and reach. Our IRC channels are also in a very healthy state and now involve more people than ever. We might, in the near future, cover politics a little less and use the spare time to post more articles per day. We wish to take this site to the next level, so to speak. ⬆

Recent Techrights' Posts

European Patent Office (EPO) Series: The Brotherhood of São Bento: The Palácio São Bento – or São Bento Palace – is the seat of the Portuguese National Assembly in Lisbon
Brett Wilson LLP Reported to Police for Trying to Throw Large Parcel Into Our Home: This morning the campaign of intimidation...
Slop Has no ROI, an Economy Built on False Assumptions of Slop is Doomed: we're all going to suffer from this Ponzi scheme
The Cyber Show Has "Exciting Guests Coming" and a Gemini Capsule: "Site development is ongoing but now settling into a more stable form"
IBM's Quantum Bubble Already Deflating: Shares down over $55 in a few days
SLAPP Censorship - Part 101 Out of 200: Women Come to Realise They Don't Wish to Participate in Attacking Vulnerable Women: It relates to another topic that we shall be covering in the coming weeks
Links 08/06/2026: Proprietary Loaded With Security Holes, Armenia Defies Russia: Links for the day
Gemini Links 08/06/2026: NetHack 5.0.0 and Slop as Cannibalism: Links for the day
Links 08/06/2026: "Rising Emissions, Depleting Water" Due to the Pyramid Scheme of Slop; "Canada Needs to Rebuild Public Telecoms": Links for the day
GAFAM Bots Are Not "Good Bots": There's nothing "Good" about Google
Links 08/06/2026: Criticism of Microsoft Trying to Criminalise Pointing Out Bug Doors, TikTok Now "Climate-Denying Social Media App": Links for the day
GNU/Linux Measured at 10% in Liechtenstein This Month: it seems like statCounter wrongly classified some GNU/Linux clients as Mac clients and is now issuing a correction
Communicating With Freedom - Part III - Quibble Envisioned as a New and Easily Accessible Communications Platform Based on LibreJS: the FSF really needs to become more active if not proactive in promoting those sorts of things
Clownflare Says Majority of Web Traffic is Now Bots, But the Net is Another Story: Bots are to Clownflare what lawsuits are to lawyers
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Sunday, June 07, 2026: IRC logs for Sunday, June 07, 2026
The Strikes at the European Patent Office Planned to Carry on for the Entire Year, Maybe Future Years as Well: There's a cautionary tale somewhere
Number of Patent Grants Has Plunged 23% Amid Strikes at the European Patent Office, Today There Are More Strikes (Strike Participation at Over 3,000, More Than Doubled Since Winter): There is a growing crisis at the European Patent Office
E.E.E. Still Ongoing, the War on Copyleft/GPL Enables That: It also imperils security.
Gemini Links 07/06/2026: Lynx in the 'Modern' Web and 'Overcooked' (Plagiarised by LLM) Code: Links for the day
Links 07/06/2026: Java Needs Seawall, Egypt Blasted for Arbitrary Detention of Activists: Links for the day
SLAPP Censorship - Part 100 Out of 200: Interlude and Outline of the First Half, 3+ Months That Got Us Death Threats Connected to Brett Wilson LLP (and Cyber Attacks That Are Difficult to Attribute): This week we plan to have a good time
Banning Things Versus Teaching People the Reason/s to Shun/Boycott Those Things: Prohibition has its limits
Links 07/06/2026: NASA's Mars Maven Declared Dead, Telegram Founder Pavel Durov Bemoans Russia's Crackdown: Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Saturday, June 06, 2026: IRC logs for Saturday, June 06, 2026
Gemini Links 07/06/2026: How to Train Your Dragon (2010) and "Six Days of Play": Links for the day
Links 06/06/2026: 'Epstein Problem' in Board of Directors of Microsoft, Surveillance Giant Google Under Legal Threats for Online Misuses: Links for the day
Software Freedom Takes a Lot More Than Coding: some of the roles in the Free software community that don't receive (m)any grateful words
Ubuntu is Losing to Other GNU/Linux Distros: "Linux Mint"
Old Articles Explaining That Patents - Especially Software Patents - Are Bad for Innovation: We've omitted more than 50% of the articles we had gathered as candidates for inclusion
European Patent Office (EPO) Crisis: Huge EPO Strikes, Profound Corruption, and Cocaine Use by Managers Tolerated: These strikes won't be ending any time soon
Why GNU and FSF Will Choose AV1 Over AV2 (It's More Widely Supported): for the foreseeable future they'll stick with AV1
Mass Layoffs (RAs) and PIPs (Excuses to Sack) at IBM: Insiders Tell No Relation to Actual Performance: If many thousands are impacted by this, then certainly it is newsworthy
Links 06/06/2026: LinkedIn Infested With Spies, Ethernet WiFi Router On Pi Pico 2W: Links for the day
25 Years With PalmOS: That my Palm PDA still works in 2026 (not in mint condition but close to that) says a lot about the "build quality" of gadgets 20+ years ago
Why We Dumped Online Shopping (Groceries): subsidies kept the "online" stuff artificially cheap
Microsoft Fell to All-Time Low in Monaco Last Month: So says statCounter anyway
Lawsuits That Don't Work: Not as expected anyway
SLAPP Censorship - Part 99 Out of 200: Graveley and Garrett Seem to Have Crashed Brett Wilson LLP (Worse Than Taking Russian Oligarchs as SLAPP Clients): a state of disarray
Microsoft Has Spent Months Preparing Lists of People to Cull in Massive Wave of Layoffs (Allegedly Start of July): There is some consensus that we're weeks away from mega-layoffs at Microsoft
Gemini Links 06/06/2026: "Competing" With LLMs and "Automation of Any Kind": Links for the day
Links 06/06/2026: 'Linux' Foundation Openwashing Slop on Microsoft's Payroll, Ukraine Wants Permanent Ceasefire With Russia: Links for the day
50% of the 'Gains' Made by "Quantum" Hype Already Evaporated: "It was all hype about quantum nonsense. Heading back to reality now. Expect sub-$220 after earnings release next month."
Heap of Trash Online, Not Just the Fault of LLM Slop But Enabled by Slop: Google News has just promoted a pair of prolific slopfarms
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Friday, June 05, 2026: IRC logs for Friday, June 05, 2026