Why People Love Techrights (and Also Loved "Boycott Novell")
Over the holidays (thus far) we've received some greetings from long-timers, both readers and contributors (comments, articles etc.) and while those messages are strictly personal, the common denominator is, they recognise the value of what we publish and the sacrifice it takes. Being a site with a real community, culture, and long tradition, it's hardly surprising we receive supportive messages.
In 2006 (yes, soon it'll be "20 years ago") we broke the silence about all sorts of issues, including Novell's collusion with Microsoft, as arranged in part by Miguel de Icaza. Even back then he was a terrible, self-serving person. They basically agreed (for the most part) on software patents - the Nemesis and death knell to all software developers, not only those who chose Free software licensing.
After all those years we still deal with many of the very same issues, albeit from different angles as many things have changed. For instance, almost all software has been re-framed as "AI" (that's a lie!) and EPO corruption has become so rampant that workers have mental breakdowns (the word "suicide" hasn't been mentioned in while; that doesn't mean it's not happening).
Many people have a strong urge to speak out, but the "Mafia" attacks them if they dare utter a word. We know for certain that it happened in Poland after whistleblowers explained how bad things had become (corruption connected to EUIPO, the 'homebase' of the EPO's cocaine problem).
There have always been efforts to silence us and delete things that we published (we've published about 50,000 articles). 10 years ago the EPO began this campaign of censorship. Nowadays it's mostly the Microsofters (Microsoft is strongly connected to the EPO and the EPO's first SLAPP attempt was connected to Microsoft corruption we had exposed; the corrupt official was eventually ousted).
Nothing really scares me anymore. I will continue to publish for many decades to come. █
