[Meme] Nadella is Doing With Donald Trump What Ballmer Did With Elop and Icahn to Steal Other Companies (Nokia and Yahoo, Respectively)
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2020-08-04 13:32:00 UTC
- Modified: 2020-08-04 13:32:00 UTC
Recent Techrights' Posts
- IBM CEO Says IBM Won't be Bankrupt by 2028 or 2029 (When He Reaches Retirement Age)
- IBM has no path to survival
- Big Blue's Quiet Axe - Poem Regarding IBM "RAs"
- No idea who posted this, but it is profound
- Growing Proportion of Linux Commits Being Made by LLMs Not a Sign of LLMs Working, It's a Sign of Linux Development Being Shifted From Community to GAFAM and Other Slop Pushers
- antagonist became apologist
- Worse Than "Taking Your Job", the Slop Pyramid Scheme Will "Take Your Pension"
- This will not end well
- Rumours of Further IBM Shutdowns
- IBM is going out of existence
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- Luxembourg and Software Freedom
- Luxembourg's adoption of GNU/Linux has quite consistently been higher than the European average
- The Free Software Foundation (FSF) Web Site is Online, GNU's Site Having Issues (Ongoing Issues)
- We hope they can rectify the issues with the GNU Web site
- Freedom Includes the Liberty to Disagree (and be Listened to, Not Censored)
- Freedom is our collective strength
- Tanzania: GNU/Linux Now Seen on 8% on Desktops/Laptops (User Clients)
- numbers have more than doubled
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, August 04, 2026
- IRC logs for Tuesday, August 04, 2026
- Gemini Links 05/08/2026: Being Good, Tildeverse and Tilde.pink, Games
- Links for the day
- Links 04/08/2026: GAFAM Expressing Concerns About Dangerous Disinformation by Slop, Bill Epsteingate-Connected Litigation Firm Salivating Over Europe
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 04/08/2026: Root Shell and "Duty of Care"
- Links for the day
- Alternate Data (Not IBM's Headcount) to Show Mass Layoffs' Effect at IBM (Despite Many Acquired Workers Via M&A)
- mass layoffs at Hashicorp and at Confluent this year (media did not cover either).
- Abundance of Fake (Sometimes Paid-for) 'News' About IBM Will Discredit the Media as a Whole
- In 'the news' today
- Microsoft is Trying Vapourware Again (to Keep Developers and Gamers From Fleeing)
- For XBox, the main thing over the horizon is additional layoffs
- statCounter Reckons 12.33% of Web Traffic in Gambia Can be Attributed to GNU/Linux, Even 15% If Adding ChromeOS
- Will this be sustainable?
- Reminder: The Pedophilia Problem Comes From the Accusers
- Attacks on Richard Stallman are a distraction; his accusers are themselves the culprits
- SLAPP Censorship - Part 139 Out of 200: Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Needs More Public Scrutiny (New Management Changed Nothing, It's Costing a Lot of Taxpayers' Money)
- millions or maybe billions of pounds wasted
- Brigading Against Women - Part II - Threatening Women Using the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario (HRTO) and Then False Threats Miscarrying the Name of a Court
- In this series we intend to show the threats, the outcomes of those threats, the response to those threats
- Collapse of MElon Companies a Taste of What's to Come for Slop Bubble and GAFAM (Trillions in Debt, Justified as Slop "Investments")
- One good example of this was SpaceX
- The 'Hyperinflation' in Hardware Dooms Video Hosting (Very Large Files)
- a terabyte of video files would be expensive
- Rumours of Silent Layoffs in Microsoft This Month (August 2026), PIPs and Global Voluntary Separation Agreement (GVSA), aka "Buyouts"
- Will any investigative journalism follow or just shallow puff pieces and LLM trash from slopfarms?
- Links 04/08/2026: "Framework for Musician Burnout" and Alexa+ "is a Buggy Embarrassment"
- Links for the day
- Signs That XBox as a Console is Coming to an End, Windows Gaming Will be Called "XBox"
- "XBox" is the next "Surface"
- Microsoft's Share in Search Falls Sharply in Europe
- The layoffs at Microsoft's Bing will carry on
- Romania: GNU/Linux Reaches 4% (Less Than EU Average)
- We expect this same upward trend to carry on
- Microsoft Sites or Sites Sponsored by Microsoft Angry That GNU/Linux is Gaining
- The Microsofters cannot easily dismiss reports of GNU/Linux growth as "bots" or just allege that statCounter alone is wrong
- Ableism in the Free Software Movement Typically Comes From GAFAM Operatives and Proprietary Software Apologists
- And their hired guns
- Afghanistan: GNU/Linux Steadily Rises to 9%
- Windows is steadily declining
- IBM Innovation: It Has Invented New Methods of Silent Layoffs or Secret RAs
- How IBM disguises mass layoffs now
- Many Anniversaries
- Many anniversaries in quick succession
- LLM Slop Won't Replace People and Jobs (in the Long Run)
- At the end of the day, people who know their job offer more useful information, whereas LLMs waste people's time (typically an 'externality' to the entity deploying chatbots)
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Monday, August 03, 2026
- IRC logs for Monday, August 03, 2026
- Over 3,500 Known Gemini Capsules Accessible and Active According to Lupa
- It finally happened this morning
- Gemini Links 04/08/2026: Library Cards, Dead Ends in Software Development, and DOS on USB Key
- Links for the day
- IBM Has Embraced and Rewarded Liars
- The IBM culture vanished
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- Kuwait rose to fame in the 1990s because of a war
- Swatting People Who Write About Corruption, Misogyny, Criminal Misuse of Funds
- we've given ourselves a decade to cover all those stories
- GNU/Linux Rises Above 6% in Colombia
- In Colombia, which is a large south American country, GNU/Linux has risen steadily in recent years
- SLAPP Censorship - Part 138 Out of 200: Garrett Has Basically "Lost" and It is "Embarrassing" to Them
- they just wound up costing hundreds of thousands of pounds
- Gemini Links 03/08/2026: Great Exodus, xkcd as Text, and Dead Ends
- Links for the day
- GNU/Linux Has Surged to 6.3% in Madagascar
- Madagascar's adoption of Free software is a subject we covered a lot in past years
- Microsoft's Slop Bet is Killing the XBox Even Faster
- LLMs destroy almost anything they touch
- The Cyber Show on "Weaponised Antisocial Technology"
- by Andy
- Alexandre Oliva on Slippery Slop (LLMs)
- By Alexandre Oliva
- RMS Won the Argument and Now GNU Wins Over Computer Users
- He can look back at nearly 43 years of GNU and say, "I was right..."
- statCounter Corrects GNU/Linux Estimates, Now Measured at 9% Worldwide
- Windows has sunk like a rock
- GNU/Linux-Centric Blogs Belatedly Pick Up News About GNU/Linux Gains: 4-8% Depending on the Surveyor
- more people will get curious and give it a go
- Links 03/08/2026: Strike By Flight Attendants (WestJet) and Greedflation
- Links for the day
- Links 03/08/2026: EU Curtailed Slop, Frank Zappa Recalled
- Links for the day
- Daniel Pocock on Sky News This Morning
- No harm done
- Morten Linderud Has Helped Microsoft Put Locks (and Kill Switches) on the PCs of Arch Linux Users
- "the first rule of "secure boot" is to disable "secure boot"
- In Poor Peru, GNU/Linux Surges From 1% to 5% in a Few Years
- Windows is dying
- All Social Control Media is a Weapon (Against Its Users, Serving the Real Owners)
- That social control networks are weaponised isn't a new concept
- Fanning the Flames of Journalism
- This week we have several surprises coming
- Forcing the Slop Bubble to Implode Fully to Save the Economy From an Even Greater Collapse and Societal Harm
- Let's blow up the bubble. The sooner, the better
- GNU/Linux at 8% in Croatia
- somewhat of a GNU/Linux adoption hotbed
- It's Easy to Predict Microsoft Layoffs for October 2026 Because of the Financial 'Results' That Month (More Faking, More Secret Debt and Buzzwords to Perfume This Debt as "Investment")
- From what we've read, Microsoft is silently laying off people this month based on LITE, which leads to PIPs
- Not Hard to Guess Who Will Pay for IBM's Collapse (Due to False Statements Made to Shareholders), Red Hat May Disappear
- IBM's leadership is never being punished for its failures
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Sunday, August 02, 2026
- IRC logs for Sunday, August 02, 2026
- Gemini Links 03/08/2026: Collectibles, Cities of the Red Night, and Lali Lambda
- Links for the day
