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| schestowitz | https://pleroma.site/notice/9spWSq7kh9mIfPWogS | Mar 10 05:22 |
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| schestowitz | " | Mar 10 05:22 |
| schestowitz | I have seen Daniel Pocock damaging the FSFE and can only congratulate the Debian project for expelling him. | Mar 10 05:22 |
| schestowitz | Pocock stole the members lists of mailing lists of both orgs to create new mailing lists where he can distribute his bizarre world view. Now I find myself spammed by him although I never subscribed to his fake mailing lists. | Mar 10 05:22 |
| schestowitz | " | Mar 10 05:22 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-pleroma.site | Pleroma | Mar 10 05:22 | |
| schestowitz | https://pleroma.site/notice/9spbJKfEnCBQGCTcMy | Mar 10 05:22 |
| schestowitz | "this is why i dislike debian. As an os it is quite good and as they claim universal. But all this drama around it is bad in the long run." | Mar 10 05:22 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-pleroma.site | Pleroma | Mar 10 05:22 | |
| schestowitz | https://pleroma.site/notice/9sps9IKIKOUHKoTpwm | Mar 10 05:23 |
| schestowitz | "@schestowitz Here they are whining that the grid is not ready for people to start using more electricity. Instead of investing in the grid, they built a new coal plant that is already losing money, so now they want society to pay for this coal plant. Meanwhile, we pay 350% tax on green electricity." | Mar 10 05:23 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-pleroma.site | Pleroma | Mar 10 05:23 | |
| schestowitz | https://pleroma.site/notice/9sqxpMAD92Z2KMbEw4 | Mar 10 05:23 |
| schestowitz | "50 to 100 million*" | Mar 10 05:23 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-pleroma.site | Pleroma | Mar 10 05:23 | |
| schestowitz | https://pleroma.site/notice/9sqxv7AZnzynYsW4ZM | Mar 10 05:23 |
| schestowitz | "note population in 1900-1927 was 1,600-2,000 million" | Mar 10 05:23 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-pleroma.site | Pleroma | Mar 10 05:23 | |
| schestowitz | > Also xxxx: | Mar 10 05:49 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 10 05:49 |
| schestowitz | > Please note that Roy apparently works for the University of Manchester. | Mar 10 05:49 |
| schestowitz | > The criminal matter involves obstruction by the British government: | Mar 10 05:49 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 10 05:49 |
| schestowitz | > xxxxxxxxxxxxx | Mar 10 05:49 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 10 05:49 |
| schestowitz | > The practice of apartheid to which I refer involves universities | Mar 10 05:49 |
| schestowitz | > throughout the UK. The British government know of the practice and | Mar 10 05:49 |
| schestowitz | > condone it. One of my external examiners (party to the theft of my | Mar 10 05:49 |
| schestowitz | > thesis which was given to a white male Scot) was the Vice-Chancellor of | Mar 10 05:49 |
| schestowitz | > Cambridge University. | Mar 10 05:49 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 10 05:49 |
| schestowitz | > While Roy might personally support my pursuit of justice, any advocacy | Mar 10 05:49 |
| schestowitz | > on his part would place him in the crosshairs of the criminal | Mar 10 05:49 |
| schestowitz | > enterprise. I have no doubt that this would impact the University of | Mar 10 05:49 |
| schestowitz | > Manchester /*and his position there*/. | Mar 10 05:49 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 10 05:49 |
| schestowitz | > I have a couple of professor friends at MIT. This is why I'm still | Mar 10 05:49 |
| schestowitz | > alive. I'm open to suggestions. I'm pretty sure that even a GPG key | Mar 10 05:49 |
| schestowitz | > would get hacked so I haven't bothered. | Mar 10 05:50 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 10 05:50 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 10 05:50 |
| schestowitz | > xxxxxxxx | Mar 10 05:50 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 10 05:50 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 10 05:50 |
| schestowitz | > xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx: | Mar 10 05:50 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 10 05:50 |
| schestowitz | > xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx | Mar 10 05:50 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 10 05:50 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 10 05:50 |
| schestowitz | > Thanks again: | Mar 10 05:50 |
| schestowitz | > xxxxxxxxxx | Mar 10 05:50 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 10 05:50 |
| schestowitz | > Please remember (and tell Roy) that I'm being stalked. There have been | Mar 10 05:50 |
| schestowitz | > murders intended to intimidate me into dropping the matter. | Mar 10 05:50 |
| schestowitz | >> (and tell Roy) that I'm being stalked. There have been murders intended to intimidate me into dropping the matter. | Mar 10 05:50 |
| schestowitz | > That's the relevant line, Adrienne wanted you to know this. I can put you in touch if you wish to speak. | Mar 10 05:50 |
| schestowitz | I lack context here.... | Mar 10 05:50 |
| schestowitz | My gut feeling is, people aren't often killed just to 'scare' someone... | Mar 10 06:08 |
| schestowitz | Also, I don't work for UoM. | Mar 10 06:08 |
| schestowitz | I don't think we ought to pursue any of the below. | Mar 10 06:08 |
| schestowitz | Thoughts? | Mar 10 06:08 |
| schestowitz | >> At the moment, the only article I have drafted is next week's "Bill | Mar 10 06:15 |
| schestowitz | >> Gates Pedophilia Scandal Turns Into Several (6 Months of Police | Mar 10 06:15 |
| schestowitz | >> Stonewalling to Cover up Pedophilia)" | Mar 10 06:15 |
| schestowitz | >> | Mar 10 06:15 |
| schestowitz | >> 13th of March is the half anniversary IIRC, maybe 14th. | Mar 10 06:15 |
| schestowitz | >> | Mar 10 06:15 |
| schestowitz | >> "...then they fight you, then you win..." | Mar 10 06:15 |
| schestowitz | >> | Mar 10 06:15 |
| schestowitz | >> Now they fight us hard. We need to fight back. | Mar 10 06:15 |
| schestowitz | > Agreed. Though it is on several fronts: EPO, M$, LF, OSI, to name some. | Mar 10 06:15 |
| schestowitz | > I hope Linus can take his trademarks and walk. A pie-in-the-sky option | Mar 10 06:15 |
| schestowitz | > would be for the EU to hire him in to run a new project to build a new | Mar 10 06:15 |
| schestowitz | > kernel from the ground up. | Mar 10 06:15 |
| schestowitz | Assuming they still do the right thing(r): | Mar 10 06:15 |
| schestowitz | https://euobserver.com/institutional/147637 | Mar 10 06:15 |
| schestowitz | >> Linus does nothing but RC/final prose these days: | Mar 10 06:15 |
| schestowitz | >> | Mar 10 06:15 |
| schestowitz | >> http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/134953 | Mar 10 06:15 |
| schestowitz | >> | Mar 10 06:15 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-euobserver.com | How corporate lobbyists steer EU law-making | Mar 10 06:15 | |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.tuxmachines.org | Linux 5.6-rc5 | Tux Machines | Mar 10 06:15 | |
| schestowitz | >> OSI is kaput IMHO: | Mar 10 06:15 |
| schestowitz | >> | Mar 10 06:15 |
| schestowitz | >> https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/controversial-new-open-source-license-88748/ | Mar 10 06:15 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.jdsupra.com | Controversial New Open Source License for Decentralized Apps – Protects Users’ Data and Cryptographic Keys | Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP - JDSupra | Mar 10 06:15 | |
| schestowitz | https://placeholderapi.wordpress.com/2019/11/12/netscape-lets-put-email-in-the-browser-microsoft-lets-put-the-b/#comment-16082 | Mar 10 06:17 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-placeholderapi.wordpress.com | Netscape: let’s put Email in the browser Microsoft: let’s put the b… | Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) | Mar 10 06:17 | |
| schestowitz | " | Mar 10 06:17 |
| schestowitz | Interesting article! | Mar 10 06:17 |
| schestowitz | https://invertedlogicblog.wordpress.com/2020/03/09/united-states-v-microsoft-1998-licensing-agreements/ | Mar 10 06:17 |
| schestowitz | " | Mar 10 06:17 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-invertedlogicblog.wordpress.com | United States v Microsoft (1998)- Licensing Agreements – Inverted logic | Mar 10 06:18 | |
| schestowitz | No, Microsoft was not the victim of the media or bias. It has since then bribed the media to ensure this does not happen again. | Mar 10 06:18 |
| schestowitz | >> I lack context here.... | Mar 10 06:22 |
| schestowitz | > Of course you do. This isn't a teaser, I'm trying to help. Why do people think I leave stuff out just for fun? I told you what I can for now; not much. | Mar 10 06:22 |
| schestowitz | OK, keep me in the loop. | Mar 10 06:22 |
| schestowitz | >> My gut feeling is, people aren't often killed just to 'scare' someone... | Mar 10 06:29 |
| schestowitz | >> | Mar 10 06:29 |
| schestowitz | >> Also, I don't work for UoM. | Mar 10 06:29 |
| schestowitz | >> | Mar 10 06:29 |
| schestowitz | >> I don't think we ought to pursue any of the below. | Mar 10 06:29 |
| schestowitz | >> | Mar 10 06:29 |
| schestowitz | >> Thoughts? | Mar 10 06:29 |
| schestowitz | > Off the record: | Mar 10 06:30 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 10 06:30 |
| schestowitz | > Probably should not pursue that. However, M$ and the crowd backing it | Mar 10 06:30 |
| schestowitz | > are playing hardball. | Mar 10 06:30 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 10 06:30 |
| schestowitz | > Also, though a real academic integrity problem, the stolen thesis is | Mar 10 06:30 |
| schestowitz | > probably not race related. My anecdote was that here I sent in a rather | Mar 10 06:30 |
| schestowitz | > filled out draft of a proposal for PhD research. Heard nothing back. | Mar 10 06:30 |
| schestowitz | > Then two years later some known-nothing clown mentioned in passing that | Mar 10 06:30 |
| schestowitz | > he was pleased as punch to be paid to sit in meetings around the country | Mar 10 06:30 |
| schestowitz | > and *do nothing* yet get paid under a title disturbingly similar to my | Mar 10 06:30 |
| schestowitz | > proposed dissertation. A few questions clarified the situation and it | Mar 10 06:30 |
| schestowitz | > appeared that someone had lifted the proposal and, tweaking a few names | Mar 10 06:30 |
| schestowitz | > and details, made a project out of it which was accepted for funding. | Mar 10 06:30 |
| schestowitz | > It was just another problem which I did not have time to address. | Mar 10 06:30 |
| schestowitz | An old friend of mine, David (now in his 70s), had something similar done to him. | Mar 10 06:30 |
| schestowitz | In that case, the person responsible for the plagiarism was suspended or something similar (according to him). It was a person well above him. | Mar 10 06:30 |
| schestowitz | My last job in academia didn't pay well (maybe a QUARTER of market value... whatever "market value" means). I left after 2 years. | Mar 10 06:30 |
| schestowitz | >>> Stock buybacks are legalized embezzlement. They serve little purpose | Mar 10 06:32 |
| schestowitz | >>> other than to siphon money out of the company. In other words, Dorsey | Mar 10 06:32 |
| schestowitz | >>> just paid a large bribe. | Mar 10 06:32 |
| schestowitz | >> We shall soon find out if what I call 'toilet paper' economies (based on | Mar 10 06:32 |
| schestowitz | >> fictional market caps) sell out as quickly as physical toilet paper.... | Mar 10 06:32 |
| schestowitz | >> | Mar 10 06:32 |
| schestowitz | >> | Mar 10 06:33 |
| schestowitz | >> One of my earlier sources of inspiration on what brought down USSR and | Mar 10 06:33 |
| schestowitz | >> why Americans need to look for what he calls "escape routes". Sadly he | Mar 10 06:33 |
| schestowitz | >> died. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TgnKZ5UgYS0 | Mar 10 06:33 |
| schestowitz | > It's outside of my area of interest so I may be barking up the wrong | Mar 10 06:33 |
| schestowitz | > tree, or at least barking, when expressing an opinion. However, it | Mar 10 06:33 |
| schestowitz | > could be that RU is driving the price of petro chemicals through the | Mar 10 06:33 |
| schestowitz | > floor to eliminate US based competition. They will probably go under | Mar 10 06:33 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.youtube.com | The Sorrows of Empire - Chalmers Johnson - YouTube | Mar 10 06:33 | |
| schestowitz | > quickly and it may lead to more bailouts which will further weaken the | Mar 10 06:33 |
| schestowitz | > country, maybe contribute to its collapse. | Mar 10 06:33 |
| schestowitz | I cannot comment on this as it is outside my ballpark as well . | Mar 10 06:33 |
| schestowitz | >> Those were illegal here until a few years ago. Now they are the norm | Mar 10 06:58 |
| schestowitz | >> and on top of that many employers cut way back. For examples, cleaners | Mar 10 06:58 |
| schestowitz | >> working in a complex of buildings are docked for the time spent getting | Mar 10 06:58 |
| schestowitz | >> between the individual buildings. If they complain about anything or | Mar 10 06:58 |
| schestowitz | >> turn in notice in advance of a new job the retribution is the next day | Mar 10 06:58 |
| schestowitz | >> in the form of greatly reduced hours. | Mar 10 06:58 |
| schestowitz | > [snip] | Mar 10 06:58 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 10 06:58 |
| schestowitz | > https://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/number_of_people_living_in_long-term_poverty_doubles_in_20_years/11248032 | Mar 10 06:59 |
| schestowitz | Don't worry!!! | Mar 10 06:59 |
| schestowitz | They'll redefine "poverty" | Mar 10 06:59 |
| schestowitz | Like they do "employment" (not looking anymore? Not counted!) | Mar 10 06:59 |
| schestowitz | Aannnnd... increase retirement ages to aver having to - GASP - support those without income source | Mar 10 06:59 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-yle.fi | Number of people living in long-term poverty doubles in 20 years | Yle Uutiset | yle.fi | Mar 10 06:59 | |
| schestowitz | Oh, need we add that US life expectancy is decreasing? | Mar 10 06:59 |
| schestowitz | Mule society | Mar 10 06:59 |
| schestowitz | Or the UK equiv: "Only fools and horses..." | Mar 10 06:59 |
| schestowitz | > Not yet. I've added dozens lately to QuiteRSS but would not be sure how | Mar 10 07:00 |
| schestowitz | > to merge them. | Mar 10 07:00 |
| schestowitz | Export, merge, re-import: | Mar 10 07:00 |
| schestowitz | https://www.google.com/search?client=qupzilla&q=opml%20merger&gws_rd=ssl | Mar 10 07:00 |
| schestowitz | Att. | Mar 10 07:00 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.google.com | opml merger - Google Search | Mar 10 07:00 | |
| schestowitz | > Another site, which I did not have opportunity to finish investigating, | Mar 10 07:38 |
| schestowitz | > was rumored to have several hundred M$ servers in the basement. The | Mar 10 07:38 |
| schestowitz | > institution had only a marginally larger number of students. :/ Most | Mar 10 07:38 |
| schestowitz | > of those, if upgraded to FOSS, could nowadays be run on a small pool of | Mar 10 07:38 |
| schestowitz | > computers. | Mar 10 07:38 |
| schestowitz | When you see things like this, and I kid you not, you must start asking questions about fraud. Like, "we'll buy X computers/units from Y (OEM/Microsoft), you give me % of that money..." | Mar 10 07:39 |
| schestowitz | The EPO's management robs the institutions this way. | Mar 10 07:39 |
| schestowitz | WBers needed. Anonymity needed for WBer confidence. | Mar 10 07:39 |
| schestowitz | Remember we still have that long draft about Windows in hospitals. | Mar 10 07:39 |
| acer-box | https://twitter.com/Stefanauss/status/1237324246566780929 | Mar 10 10:36 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@Stefanauss: @veganaiZe Not at all: - https://t.co/ncBj27doVX - https://t.co/MCZGIHmnOs - https://t.co/nVwTKI8skG -… https://t.co/qKTrsacueX | Mar 10 10:36 | |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@joshsimmons: @davidkidd @textfiles @OpenSourceOrg I don't believe anything was deleted from the archive, but we *definitely* hel… https://t.co/c5hAA32pIp | Mar 10 10:36 | |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@joshsimmons: @RegularClaw @davidkidd @textfiles @OpenSourceOrg Yeah, I think that's a v fair characterization. | Mar 10 10:36 | |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@pchestek: It was not "scrubbed," it was never published. The OSI rejected it. https://t.co/fCNoIte9Sr | Mar 10 10:36 | |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@Stefanauss: @veganaiZe Not at all: - https://t.co/ncBj27doVX - https://t.co/MCZGIHmnOs - https://t.co/nVwTKI8skG -… https://t.co/qKTrsacueX | Mar 10 10:36 | |
| acer-box | " | Mar 10 10:36 |
| acer-box | Not at all: | Mar 10 10:36 |
| acer-box | - https://twitter.com/joshsimmons/status/1233252708762574848 | Mar 10 10:36 |
| acer-box | - https://twitter.com/joshsimmons/status/1233265934053171201 | Mar 10 10:36 |
| acer-box | - https://twitter.com/pchestek/status/1233126974828302336 | Mar 10 10:36 |
| acer-box | - https://twitter.com/CoralineAda/status/1233090621830725638 | Mar 10 10:36 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@CoralineAda: @OpenSourceOrg On the mailing list, ESR was responding to a conversation about ethical source licensing. (I was not… https://t.co/YeCu1sINDH | Mar 10 10:36 | |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@CoralineAda: @OpenSourceOrg On the mailing list, ESR was responding to a conversation about ethical source licensing. (I was not… https://t.co/YeCu1sINDH | Mar 10 10:36 | |
| acer-box | - and ESR message later scrubbed from the archives, which Lunduke somehow missed: http://techrights.org/2020/02/29/get | Mar 10 10:36 |
| acer-box | " | Mar 10 10:36 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-techrights.org | How OSI Co-Founder Got Banned From the OSI’s Mailing Lists (a Month After the Other Co-Founder Resigned in Protest in Those Mailing Lists, Bemoaning Attacks on Software Freedom) | Techrights | Mar 10 10:36 | |
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| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@jcsahnwaldt: @veganaiZe @Stefanauss Why didn't you, @veganaiZe, click the link to that source on https://t.co/rQ6mLBZCeE ? | Mar 10 17:19 | |
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