08.01.20
[Meme] Testosterone Patent Office
Even the EPO’s Staff Union (SUEPO) has brought up these issues
Summary: When you’re running an office that’s barely diverse at all and you paint a misleading picture of it expect backlash
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IRC Proceedings: Monday, October 26, 2020
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Links 26/10/2020: rpminspect 1.2, Open Source Hardware Certification and LibreOffice Conference
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Links 26/10/2020: Debian "Bullseye" Artwork, Fwupd 1.5 Released
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[Meme] Satya Na-DL
Microsoft has shown its real priorities (just before the weekend when many people might not notice)
Jonathan Wiltshire and Debian, Falsified Harassment Claims, Tiger Computing and GCHQ
Reprinted with permission from Debian Community News
Links 26/10/2020: Linux 5.10 RC1 and Loongsoon Laptops
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The Downfall of Free Software Leaders (and Their Projects or Missions)
"Cancel George Orwell, and happy hacking."
IRC Proceedings: Sunday, October 25, 2020
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Links 25/10/2020: Kodi 18.9, ScummVM Android Love, Cutelyst 2.13
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[Meme] Captain Zemlin and Neil McGovern's Ugly Legacy in GNOME (His Predecessors Work for Microsoft Directly Now)
The Linux Foundation is already ‘sold’ and Microsoft Tim‘s interview with Neil McGovern, published a few days ago, was rather revealing (comments on the article/interview were also harsh)
How Microsoft is Still Worse Than Google
"I have decided that we should not publish these extensions. We should wait until we have a way to do a high level of integration that will be harder for the likes of Notes, Wordperfect to achieve, and which will give Office a real advantage."
'President Bill Gates' Wants to Punish Not Only Google After Using “Extensions” to the Web to Reinforce Microsoft's Monopoly (Antitrust Violations Are a Microsoft Thing)
In gross distortion of facts and of history and in a rather incredible fashion (very shameless and insulting) the corporate media tries to paint Bill Gates as an antitrust hero that will save the world from monopolies
Donald Trump Helped Bill Gates Increase His Wealth by More Than 50%, Especially During the Pandemic
Contrary to ridiculous narratives disseminated by nutty accounts all around the Web, Gates and Trump are no foes but 'partners in crime'
Our 14th Birthday is Coming
We're turning 14 shortly and we need ideas from readers (things that can be done to mark the event and celebrate 'on-line')
In Spite of IBM's Difficult Past and Particularly Dark History, Under Arvind Krishna’s Leadership It Has Only Shown Signs of Improving
This winter, 6 months after Arvind Krishna’s tenure as CEO began, we can generally say that things seem to have improved and we look forward to further improvements
Links 25/10/2020: GNU Taler's IETF Milestone, RISC OS 5.28 and New Ubuntu Community Council
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IRC Proceedings: Saturday, October 24, 2020
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Links 24/10/2020: GDB 10.1, Kodachi 7.4, Wine 5.20
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Celebrating Code of Conduct Violations
Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
The Militarised Elephant in the Room Still Commands a Lot of Free Software Development
We take a difficult (albeit in-depth and perfectly factual) look at IBM's past and present; considering this is the company that controls Red Hat (which in turn controls many key projects in GNU/Linux) we need a better understanding of the real context, not PR fluff and marketing
Juve Patent's Love of Patent Trolls and Their Misinformation
The press 'gutter' known as Juve (basically propaganda disguised as 'news' since years ago) has gotten to the point where the publisher is just an extension of lawyers and liars
IRC Proceedings: Friday, October 23, 2020
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Look How Many Tux I Give!
"Long live rms, long live (Hyperbola) GNU/BSD, and happy hacking."
Embrace, Extend, and Extensions: Two New Reasons to Delete GitHub, Which Microsoft Ruined for Everyone (Except the Copyright Cartel and Other Censors)
GitHub is being turned into a garbage dump with malicious masters (or monsters, or mobsters); many people are denied access for using the 'wrong' browser and developers/projects are being censored (not for doing anything wrong or illegal, either)
[Meme] When EPO Staff Claims to be 'Ill' or 'Sick'... During a Pandemic's European Peak
Gotta check and verify that those 'lazy' EPO examiners aren't just faking being ill (in order to not meet "production" targets)
The EPO Has Relegated or Lowered Itself to Extremely Poor Standards
Today's EPO continues to reaffirm the image of global weakness; having failed to improve the working conditions and quality of the work (its actions did the exact opposite), it's nowadays begging China to send over lots of workload irrespective of quality or merit and it is outsourcing the functions of the Office to the United States
Links 23/10/2020: Turing Pi 2, GNU Parallel 20201022
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IRC Proceedings: Thursday, October 22, 2020
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Links 23/10/2020: 'Groovy Gorilla' Everywhere in the News
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For Better 'Tech Rights' in the United States (and the World at Large) the 'Orange Man' Needs to Go
With less than a fortnight before election day we explain our stance from a purely tech-related rationale
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