[Meme] Microsoft Does to Free Software Projects What Bill Gates Has Done to the Media for Two Decades
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2020-08-23 16:17:46 UTC
- Modified: 2020-08-23 16:17:46 UTC
Recent Techrights' Posts
- GNU/Linux and ChromeOS in Australia Tripled in 5 Years? That's How statCounter Sees It....
- Based on statCounter...
- GNU/Linux Reaches 5% in Indonesia (Population Size Near 300 Million)
- You would need not envy "Microsoft Indonesia" right now
- GNU/Linux Back to 5% in 2025
- That's not counting ChromeOS
- GNU/Linux Gained About 0.5% Last Year, According to StatCounter
- 2024 ended with "proper" GNU/Linux at +0.4%, ChromeOS at +0.1% (based on statCounter/StatCounter)
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- Windows Falls to ~22% in France and Spain, Based on statCounter
- Windows 'corrected' at 22% "market share" in France - i.e. roughly the same as Spain
- Gemini Links 02/01/2025: Goals 2025, Microsofter Clickbaiting Again, Advice for the Newbie or Returning Perl Hacker
- Links for the day
- When Your Get Your "Latest Technology News" From an LLM Slop Farm
- They still call themselves "BetaNews" (the word "news" is in the name)
- [Meme] Wrestling With Pigs in Social Control Media
- “Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.” ― George Bernard Shaw
- Even Worse Than Racism at the Linux Foundation
- And worse than corporate colonialism
- It's Not Just MElon X, President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, All Social Control Media is Basically a Digital Weapon
- The question is, what are you going to do about it?
- Microsoft Especially Important to Phoronix (It Also Gives Gifts to Phoronix)
- A whole section devoted to Microsoft, mostly with puff pieces/ads of proprietary things
- For Software Freedom (and for Broader Personal Freedom), the Goalposts Are Moving
- we need to open up our eyes and identify/classify other threats, such as social control media
- Microsoft Plummets to New Lows in Azerbaijan
- Perhaps the Azerbaijani population is looking for something other than the NSA's foremost facilitator
- We Need Something More Like DMOZ, Not Search Engines and Bill-Funded Wikipedia (Censoring Unfaltering Information About Powerful People and Institutions)
- era of LLMs trained on Wikipedia... Microsoft tried - and failed - to game the narrative to the same extent Google does
- Tens of Billions of Dollars Down the Drain (Microsoft Lost the Search "Arms Race" or Market)
- But caused injury to itself and others, just like with Nokia in mobile
- Seems Like GNU/Linux Usage Doubled in Japan Last Year
- So says statCounter data anyway
- GNU/Linux Measured at 4.4% in South America and 3.34% in Africa, Based on 2025's Preliminary Data
- All-time highs
- GNU/Linux Leaps to 6% in the United States of America (Not Even Counting ChromeOS)
- Additionally, the FSF in Boston is managing well
- GNU/Linux Usage in Europe Leaps Above 6% in 2025
- This is a big deal because a lot of Microsoft's revenue came from Europe
- Windows Falls to 22.5% Worldwide, Android Up to 48%
- The world's (by far) biggest populations don't use Windows much
- Links 02/01/2025: Production of Apple Vision Pro Halted, More on Public Domain Day 2025
- Links for the day
- Links 02/01/2025: OpenAI Whistleblower Suchir Balaji Alleged to Have Been Murdered, Islamic Terrorism in New Orleans
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 02/01/2025: Friends, Blunder Valley, and New Year
- Links for the day
- Links 02/01/2025: Violence Crisis in South Africa and Arrest Warrant for South Korean Leadership
- Links for the day
- Rumour: IBM Will Try to Induce Mass Resignations This Month Using R.T.O. (Just Like Amazon Does This Month)
- Amazon will start some of this in March, sources have told us
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, January 01, 2025
- IRC logs for Wednesday, January 01, 2025
- Last Day of 2024 Was Spent by Brittany Day Publishing Only Fake 'Articles' (LLM Slop) About "Linux", Joined by Serial Slopper Brian Fagioli
- Not even a holiday was enough to stop Day from "spamming" the Web with fake 'articles' (LLM slop) about "Linux"
- Gemini Links 01/01/2025: Looking Back at 2024 and Happy 2025
- Links for the day
- Addendum: What the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) Really Is
- Not serum free light chains (SFLC)
- Microsoft FakeHub: Identity Theft in Microsoft GitHub (Microsoft Won't Bother Addressing It; It Gives a False Impression of Adoption by GNU/Linux Veterans)
- This is the same company that kept intact deleted accounts and counted them as if they're live and active (to hide the gradual abandonment and demise of the "hub")
- Microsoft Tries to Force People Into Vista 11 by Stopping Vista 10 Patching, Herding Them Into TPMdom
- It's backfiring
- CyberShow Blog Upgraded, RSS Feed Added
- CyberShow Blog has just had somewhat of a facelift
- Sitting on a Mountain of Money (Almost 8 Million Dollars) is "Pro Bono"
- Does the general public realise what SFC is?
- Software Freedom Conservancy Inc (SFC) Lost Revenue and Also Got Rid of "Senior Director of Diversity and Inclusion" (Sage A Sharp, Formerly Known as Sarah Sharp, Who Ran an Ill-Spirited Campaign Against Linus Torvalds, Theodore Tso, and Other Prominent Linux Developers)
- Not much needs to be said; a little needs to be shown (from an authoritative source, the IRS)
- In Operating Systems, Google Was the Biggest Winner in 2024
- Nevertheless, 10% of the managers are to be laid off shortly (after a leak led to confirmation by the CEO)
- FSF-EEE (Colonial Splinter Group Based in Germany) Promotes Microsoft
- New and misleading
- Did GAFAM or IBM 'Downgrade' Pensions to 'Insurance' (Which Can be Denied)?
- 'Insurance' does not mean what it may sound like
- Gemini Protocol Continued to Grow in 2024
- it's no longer hosted from home
- Geoffrey Knauth, FSF President and Treasurer, Comments on the FSF Raising Over $300,000
- Now almost $304,000
- Links 01/01/2025: Whistleblowers Shunned, EU/Germany Blasts Twitter (X, MElon) Interference
- Links for the day
- Mother of OpenAI Whistleblower Says Her Son Was Murdered (He Accused OpenAI of Copyright Violations at a Massive Scale, OpenAI is Running Out of Money That It Borrowed)
- "Mother of OpenAI Whistleblower Alleges He Was Murdered, Says There Were Signs of Struggle"
- Housekeeping and Productivity
- The less we tinker with those things (system administration tasks), the more we can write and curate links
- The Engineering Side in 2024: A Look Back, Taking Stock
- uptime was somewhere around 99.95%
- Dr. Andy Farnell Nominates Gromit the Dog "as an Unlikely Hacker Hero."
- The world needs more decent engineers
- The Free Software Foundation's (FSF) Holiday Fund-Raising Campaign Reaches About $303,000
- in some parts of the US it's still 2024
- [Meme] The Microsoft Syndrome
- Typical Microsoftism
- Gemini Links 01/01/2025: Reflecting on 2024 and FSMs
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, December 31, 2024
- IRC logs for Tuesday, December 31, 2024
- Links 31/12/2024: Another Jeju Air Plane Has Severe Landing Gear Issue (Cannot Blame Birds Anymore), Turku Quits Twitter/X
- Links for the day
- 2025 Coming. "Lawsuits are temporary. Glory is forever. Go public."
- another promising year for us
- Free Software Foundation (FSF) Raises about $50,000 After Saying We Should Put Pressure on Microsoft, Might Exceed $300,000 in Total Before 2025 (Boston Time)
- FSF fund-raiser now at 292k US dollars. Spectacular growth, rising at a pace of about $20k per day!
- Brittany Day Unleashes Microsoft Propaganda About Linux, Likely Generated by Microsoft LLM to Strategically Googlebomb a Topic
- Yes, it's definitely LLM slop
- Gemini Links 31/12/2024: Default Apps 2024 and Google News RSS Woes
- Links for the day
- Links 31/12/2024: 'Open'AI Has Run Out of Money Again, Venezuela Fines TikTok, Germany Warns X/Twitter Over Election Interference, Google Search Takedowns Out of Control
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 31/12/2024: Google's Evil and VF-1 1.0.0 is Out
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Monday, December 30, 2024
- IRC logs for Monday, December 30, 2024
