GNU/Linux Turns 38 Next Month
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2021-08-24 21:51:31 UTC
- Modified: 2021-08-24 21:52:37 UTC
Recent Techrights' Posts
- Links 25/03/2025: Clownflare’s Slop and Bounties on Fake Patents
- Links for the day
- Let Them Eat 'Apps'
- Go Appless
- Linux Runs Almost Everything, But They Almost Never Tell You This (No Marketing Budget)
- Only about 1% (or at most 2%) of the Linux Foundation's budget goes towards Linux; a lot is routed towards Bill Gates and Microsoft promotion
- Free Software Community Folks Are Closer Together Than the Cliques and Opportunists Rallying Around "Open Source" (Openwashing, Marketing, Conniving)
- Generally speaking, freedom-loving geeks learn to reject morbid elements and trolls, who end up expelled
- Growing Poverty Rates in the United States of America (or Elsewhere) Beneficial to GNU/Linux Adoption
- Toxic politics around the world, including the US, may mean weaker economies
- European Patent Office (EPO) Illegally Turning to Slop Behind Closed Doors, Staff Objects to This Hidden Catastrophe
- Who stands to gain from all this and at whose expense?
- After US Government Funding Cuts the Centralisation of the Web (Especially Certificate Authority Let's Encrypt) is at Risk
- They try to pull the plug on open protocols with decent encryption available (unless it is outsourced to third parties)
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- Microsoft's Serial Strangler's Law Firm Has a Long History of Fronting for People Who Do Bad and/or Illegal Things
- Whose terrible idea was this?
- Novell and Microsoft Apologist/Booster Bruce Byfield Writing About the FSF is a Recipe for Problems
- Totally not shoehorning some agenda
- Looking Forward to the Fall of UPC and Revocation of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) Agreement, Which Was Always Illegal and Unconstitutional
- We'll try to keep abreast of any progress in this case
- Slopwatch: Google News, LinuxSecurity.com, and the General Demise of the Web
- many supposed or so-called "news" pages are just spewed out by some chatbots (or tools which help plagiarise original articles without getting caught; detection gets harder)
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, March 25, 2025
- IRC logs for Tuesday, March 25, 2025
- Links 25/03/2025: Terrace Workbench and Spellcheck in LibreOffice on FreeBSD
- Links for the day
- The Open Source Initiative (OSI) Might Get 'Forked' Soon
- Someone who read our series has already taken a leading role
- IBM Layoffs in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2025
- Should Free software people trust such a secretive company?
- Roku Will 'Lead' Attempts to Abolish the Illegal and Unconstitutional Unified Patent Court (UPC), Which Represents EPO Corruption and Lobbyism Spreading Upwards Inside the EU
- When bribery buys policies and courts, even illegal policies and courts
- Gemini Links 25/03/2025: Relaxation, Literary "Movements", and Gemini Mentions
- Links for the day
- Links 25/03/2025: Putin Sends Children to Battle, 23andMe Drowns as People's Highly Personal DNA Data Floats
- Links for the day
- When Microsoft Folks Who Literally Strangle Women Try to Strangle Microsoft Critics
- Speaking to Court staff yesterday, they too are shocked about those SLAPPs
- Martinique: Windows Down to All-Time Low
- we cannot expect Windows to ever recover
- Anticipated in 2018: Lilie James & Location tracking, Googlists complained
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Monday, March 24, 2025
- IRC logs for Monday, March 24, 2025
- IBM (and Red Hat) on a Fast Train to Nowhere
- What is the future of Fedora when IBM keeps removing its leadership?
- Press Reports Say Almost 10,000 Western IBMers Laid Off
- We've been trying to verify/corroborate this somehow
- Gemini Links 24/03/2025: "Live Off the Land" and Life Without YouTube
- Links for the day
- Planet Ubuntu (or Ubuntu Planet) is LLM Slop
- Reading chatbots' output is bad use of time
- Days Ago yewtu.be Found a Workaround That Made Invidious Work Again. Then Google Broke All the Instances (Again).
- "Youtube changed something again, so if a video does not play, it's because of that."
- The European Patent Office (EPO) is Slowly Killing Its Own Staff; All It Cares About Is Money
- The Office hasn't been run by a scientist for about 18 years already
- Links 24/03/2025: US Detaining Innocent People, F-35 Contracts Suspended Due to Hostilities
- Links for the day
- Cellphones (Mobile Phones) in Classrooms
- A recent study confirmed that people's intelligence has dropped in recent years/decades
- Is the FSF Being 'Trolled' by Microsofters Pushing C# (Microsoft)?
- Who stands to benefit from training people to use and spread Microsoft?
- Matthew J. Garrett is "Former Microsoft Researcher", According to Microsoft's Serial Strangler
- Their argument is something along the lines of, "what Roy published damaged my career prospects, so I want Roy to pay me...
- Links 24/03/2025: Political Catchup and Environmental Concerns
- Links for the day
- Windows Has Now Fallen to Rather Ridiculous 3% "Market Share" in Iraq (Windows Was Measured at 100% Back in 2010)
- Iraq is not a place where Windows can make a comeback
- Gemini Links 24/03/2025: Working With Music and Unconscious Influence
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Sunday, March 23, 2025
- IRC logs for Sunday, March 23, 2025
