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Links 3/2/2020: Wine 5.1 Released, GNU/Linux Benchmarks Against Vista 10 (Windows Loses), KDevelop 5.5
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Microsoft “Azure” (or “Cloud”) Results Are Most Likely an Elaborate Fraud
Even Microsoft fans (who participate in Microsoft podcasts and censor Microsoft critics) aren't buying the latest "sales figures for Azure"
Systemd Has Become (Almost) an Operating System
StrongSwan on Debian 10 (Buster) is hard; systemd isn't helping, it's mostly getting in the way and as it turns out this is part of a much broader problem introduced by Red Hat's system-wide "D"isruption
Why I'm Optimistic About Free Software (Although I'm a Pessimist by Nature)
The rise of Arvind Krishna (couldn’t possibly be overstated a piece of news in GNU/Linux circles) is a good sign for GNU/Linux while Microsoft gradually moves away from its entryism-type strategy (it failed miserably; it just didn't work)
IRC Proceedings: Sunday, February 02, 2020
IRC logs for Sunday, February 02, 2020
Free Software (as in Copyleft/GPL) Will Eventually Win for the Same Reasons GNU/Linux Did
The “OS war” may be over (Linux — typically with GNU — as de facto standard in most technical sectors including Microsoft's), so the war on this inevitable paradigm change has shifted to licensing and GitHub is a major attack vector
Congratulations to James Whitehurst on the IBM Promotion
Jim Whitehurst has been put in an important position at IBM and we hope he can turn around the company's aggressive patent policy (and halt the lobbying for software patents)
Links 2/2/2020: OpenMandriva Lx 4.1 “Mercury”, LLVM 10.0 RC1 and Linux 5.5.1 Released
Links for the day
Mansion of Pedophilia – Part IX: Arrest for Pedophilia Made, Conviction (Guilty Plea) Affirmed, and Search Conducted While the Pedophile Was at the Home of Bill Gates
Based on media coverage, including footage, we more or less understand what happened and when (but are still waiting for the police to comply with a request for records)
IRC Proceedings: Saturday, February 01, 2020
IRC logs for Saturday, February 01, 2020
The Latest Talking Point of Team UPC: Ignore Brexit, UPC Will Miraculously Come Very Soon! (Somehow!)
Team UPC is blinding itself; it is also attempting to hide from the public the very simple fact that UPC is now doomed (likely the point of no return)
Links 1/2/2020: Scott Rifenbark RIP, FOSDEM 2020, HPVM 0.5 Release
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Wasting (Misusing) Money on 'Researchers' and So-called 'Studies' Only Reinforces the Perception That the EPO Attacks Science With Its Money, Just Like Climate Deniers and Big Tobacco Lobby
The above-the-law monopoly which is based on Munich not only silences dissent but also bribes for self-serving propaganda (distorting public opinion and corrupting science) — something it knows it won’t be held accountable for
The Office of Philpott and Pol Pot
It seems so perfect a match; Cambodia (with no European Patents and a genocidal legacy) with a so-called ‘patent’ office run by ex-military people (not just Philpott)
IRC Proceedings: Friday, January 31, 2020
IRC logs for Friday, January 31, 2020
Links 31/1/2020: Lars Kurth RIP, Mesa 20.0 RC1, CERN Moving to Free Software
Links for the day
The 'a b c' of Microsoft 'Innovation' Teaches Us About Its Strategy (or How Microsoft Will Be Attacking GNU/Linux)
Microsoft's decades-long modus operandi has been forgotten by far too many (possibly unknown to the younger generation); it's worth reminding ourselves how it works
Collapse of the UPC is “Business as Usual” According to Bristows LLP
Team UPC is so debased or so detached from reality that all it has to say about Brexit is that everything is normal, everything is just fine (deep state of denial)
The EPO's Epic Waste of Money (300 Million Euros) Ended up Not Only a Fire Hazard But Also a Suffocation Risk
The Hague branch of the EPO reports yet another potentially deadly Nouvel incident; the EPO’s workplace safety is appalling even if one survives the endemic depression and chronic Upper Limb Disorder (ULD)
IRC Proceedings: Thursday, January 30, 2020
IRC logs for Thursday, January 30, 2020
The Administrative Tribunal of the International Labour Organization (ILO-AT) is Moot, EPO Plays It Like a Fiddle
Another dark episode for EPO staff, staff representatives, and even ILO/ILO-AT (repeatedly failing to uphold the law at the EPO)
Links 30/1/2020: New Stable Kernels and FreeNAS 11.3
Links for the day
EPO as a Kakistocracy of Lies and Bribes
Kakistocracy best describes the state of today's EPO (the management) and the lies told every day in its Twitter account show that insincerity has simply become the norm, accompanying the endless misconduct
Enablers of Constitutional Violations and Unified Patent Court (Unitary Patent) Dreams
The Unified Patent Court (UPC) lobby — or Team UPC — which managed to enlist a former judge, is riding the back of IAM, an EPO-funded propaganda arm that’s shameless about lying to people to keep those bribes coming
Today's EPO Stands for Nothing at All (Except Faking 'Production' to Amass Money for Gambling)
The EPO has exploited the Dabus (or DABUS) story to portray itself as strict, but the reality is exactly the opposite
IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, January 29, 2020
IRC logs for Wednesday, January 29, 2020
Links 30/1/2020: LibreOffice 6.4, Godot Engine 3.2 and Mesa 19.3.3 Released, Data Transfer in GTK4
Links for the day
Patent Scavenging or Racing to the Bottom of Patent Quality
The patent microcosm is pushing for software patents, and for litigation with such patents, but it all boils down to bottom feeding
EPO and UPC Can Become the Next 'Dieselgate'
Mischievous policies in Germany and cover-up of abuses won’t bode well for the nation; we’re already seeing some of the pushback, but can António Campinos keep the gory details under the wraps for much longer?
Microsoft Partner Explains How Microsoft Screws Partners (and Free/Open Source Projects)
"Nothing Has Truly Changed Since Netscape and Antitrust," as we put it four days ago; the 'new' Microsoft is the exact same company with the exact same strategies, which include destruction by assimilation




























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