Social Engineering of Free Software, Based on Corporate Criteria
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2020-06-04 07:40:42 UTC
- Modified: 2020-06-04 07:40:42 UTC
Recent Techrights' Posts
- statCounter Says Only One in 6 Web-Connected Clients in Hungary Are Using Windows, iOS Almost Bigger Than Windows Now
- Hungary is a cautionary tale in the world of European (or Russian) politics
- Many Reports About Microsoft's Financial Report/Performance Are False, Fake News, Churnalism/Parroting, and LLM Slop (Machine-Generated Lies)
- Even if you see a thousand sites saying that Microsoft is performing well ask yourself why the company is rushing to fire tens of thousands of workers and cancelling datacentres
- Happy 20th Birthday to OpenDocument Format (ODF)
- nowadays many companies use "online" "webapps" to collaborate on various things
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- Links 04/05/2025: Science, Conflicts, and Monopolies
- Links for the day
- GNU/Linux Above 7% in Bulgaria, Rising Just Like in Most of Europe
- Up to 7%, not counting Chromebooks
- Data Shows Largest EU Economies Shifting to GNU/Linux
- all-time highs
- Links 04/05/2025: FCC Turning Into MAGA’s Censoring Machine, SEC Pressured to Delist Chinese Companies
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 04/05/2025: Historical Artifacts and Date Calculations in POSIX Shell
- Links for the day
- In the First 3 Months of 2025 GAFAM Debt Rose by More Than $14.4 Billion
- That's based on their official statements
- 10-Step Strategy to Get BRETT WILSON LLP ("Gun for Hire"), Microsoft's Serial Strangler, and the Serial Defamer to Compensate Techrights and Tux Machines for Years of SLAPPs and Abusive Litigation
- There's no room or capacity for forgiveness here; enablers and protectors of crime need to be scuttled and pay up in full
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Saturday, May 03, 2025
- IRC logs for Saturday, May 03, 2025
- Microsoft's Debt Grew 2.1 Billion Dollars in the Past 3 Months Alone or 8.2 Billion in the Past Half a Year
- That's very different from what the mainstream press tells the public, including shareholders
- Links 03/05/2025: Amazon and Apple Problems (the A's in GAFAM), Hard to Hide Any Longer; Australia’s Election
- Links for the day
- Why Law Firms and Courts in Particular Should Dump Microsoft
- Giving a notoriously corrupt and chronically law-breaking company control over one's systems and data is a recipe for disaster
- Gemini Links 03/05/2025: Showerhead Mod and Micro Dosing on LSD
- Links for the day
- Links 03/05/2025: Bribery in Dutch Microsoft DC Probe, Zuckerberg Conflates Slop With 'Friends'
- Links for the day
- Passkeys Are Vendor Lock-in and Imperialism, Not Security, So Escape Them Before They Latch Onto Your Workflows
- This is their 'grand vision' of computing. You merely 'rent' what you assumed you truly bought to own.
- Today is World Press Freedom Day, 3rd of May
- 2025 World Press Freedom Day
- Gemini Protocol's Momentum Ahead of Its 6th Anniversary (Next Month)
- The more capsules go online, the more people participate in writing, not just reading
- Corporate Media, a Cheerleader of Wall Street Facade, Spent Days Saying "META" and "MSFT" Lifted "the Market", But Their Debt Soared
- Facebook's debt has never been higher
- Microsoft Windows Falls to a Meager 9% "Market Share" in South Africa While GNU/Linux Rises Above 5% in Desktops/Laptops
- South Africa is where the founder of Ubuntu (or Canonical) comes from
- Let's Put Slop In the Casket Once and for All (Call Out the Sites and People Who Produce and Spread Slop)
- Together, through a movement of integrity and solidarity, we can marginalise the spread of slop in all its forms, including code
- Windows Down in the Largest Countries, Microsoft Cannot Dodge This Reality Forever
- Talking about "clown" and "hey hi" (AI) - sometimes "Quantum" - is like telling bedtime stories to infantile investors who don't understand those buzzwords
- Links 03/05/2025: Australian Election and manpage for Gemini Considered
- Links for the day
- Links 03/05/2025: UK Arrests for Bribery Connected to Microsoft Datacentres
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Friday, May 02, 2025
- IRC logs for Friday, May 02, 2025
- Not Just an OSU Open Source Lab Issue
- Prominent and very prolific news sites about Linux ask for help
- GNU/Linux Has Risen to All-Time High in South America, Windows Has Fallen a Lot Due to Android
- What will the rest of the year bring?
- Richard Stallman (RMS) Says US "Magats" Have Destroyed Press Freedom in the US
- Now they're exporting their attacks on the media to the UK
- In Africa, GNU/Linux Rose From 3% to 4% in Just Two Months
- So says statCounter anyway... What will it be like by the end of this year?
- Gemini Links 02/05/2025: Bandcamp and Spying "Smart Glasses"
- Links for the day
- Microsoft Says Demand/Budget for "AI" is Decreasing, Bing is Also Moving Down and Down This Year ("Bing Chat" Was an Utter Failure, People Want Sites, Not Slop)
- Skype is about to shut down, XBox will likely die soon
- Asia is Running Away From USA-ware (Trump or 'Tariff Regime'), Including Microsoft Windows
- The nationalism harms Microsoft
- Microsoft President Panics Over Europe's Abandonment of Microsoft/GAFAM/Trump's USA, These Figures Show Us Why
- Microsoft is bluffing
- Microsoft Windows Falls Below Quarter in "Market Share" (While Microsoft Fakes Rising Dominance... in Buzzwords and Fake Accounting)
- Cooking the books while Windows gets 'cooked'
- Links 02/05/2025: Expedia Group Undergoes Layoffs, Twitter Exodus in Europe
- Links for the day
- Techrights Statement: The Solution is Not More Censorship or Moving to Another Mastodon Instance, the Core Problem is Social Control Media Including Mastodon
- Censorship typically leads to additional (new) issues
- Good News, Bad News: Groklaw is Back Online, SoylentNews Apparently Loses Editor
- Jan ought to change the resignation into a mere pause
- Manchester Computing Centre (MCC) Made the First GNU/Linux Distro, But You Probably Never Heard of It
- People like Owen are barely remembered, not because they didn't do valuable work but because they didn't suck up to "The Establishment"
- Online Mobs and Crabs: Doing to Fabrice Bellard What They Did to Richard Stallman and Linus Torvalds
- They just don't want skilled people to be productive
- E-mail is Not HTML, Web Pages Aren't a Form of E-mail
- as an associate remains us, always use "plain text, it was good enough for Shakespeare"
- Slopwatch: Stigma-Baiting by the Serial Sloppers and Latest Garbage From the Slopfarm LinuxSecurity.com (Also Slopping Away at "OpenBSD" With SEO SPAM Made by LLMs)
- Microsoft et al are trying to profit from blurring away information
- Links 02/05/2025: Mineral Selloff and Chinese Sanctions
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 02/05/2025: Hens and Tmux
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Thursday, May 01, 2025
- IRC logs for Thursday, May 01, 2025
