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Extremadura, Valencia and Catalonia on GNU/Linux (English Media Does Not Mention This or Barely Mentions This) [original]

GNU/Linux growing in Spain
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The corresponding text-only bulletin for Thursday contains all the text.

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Linux Foundation is a Mediator for Microsoft et al, Not for Small Companies That Support Rather Than Attack the GPL: Many people still wrongly assume that because it is called "Linux Foundation", then it is pro-Linux and represents the same mindset
This Past Friday, Confirming What We Said All Along About Brett Wilson LLP: It's Shrinking, Has Considerable Debt, Loss of Net Assets Despite the Microsoft SLAPP Money: The documents only became publicly available less than 2 days ago
There Was Always Too Much 'Crazy Stuff' Going on Around Freenode: What many IRC users lost sight of
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Gemini Links 08/06/2025: Love as an Ethnographic Method and Monitorix Gemini-Frontend v0.1: Links for the day
Links 08/06/2025: Exposure of More GAFAM Surveillance and Social Security Records Compromised: Links for the day
Some of the Many Reasons We Sued Microsofters for Harassment: perpetrators of harassment
For 20 Years Many People Were Sharecropping for Canonical's Oligarch, Now He's Deleting All Their Contributions: "Ubuntu has erased instead of archiving the trove of material at Ubuntu Forums"
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Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
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Links 08/06/2025: Security Lapses, CISA Cuts, and More: Links for the day
Gemini Links 07/06/2025: Mime Types and Geminisphere Introduction: Links for the day
Links 07/06/2025: Slop Companies Retain All Private Data, More Books Banned in the US: Links for the day
Gemini Links 07/06/2025: "A Monk's Guide to Happiness" and "Wireless Earbuds": Links for the day
Links 07/06/2025: More Rumours of Mass Layoffs in Microsoft's XBox Division, New COVID Variant: Links for the day
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Links 06/06/2025: "Convicted Felon and MElon Trade Insults" and Europe Snubbed by US Again: Links for the day
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Gemini Links 06/06/2025: Vanishing Cultures and MElon Implosion: Links for the day
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