When and Why I Quit Writing "Classical" GNU/Linux Advocacy Articles
20 years ago I wrote for a publication known as "Datamation" about GNU/Linux, essentially advocating its use and boasting about its growth in several key areas (including devices and servers). Over the years, in this site and other sites (even in USENET) I did a great deal of advocacy or calls for adoption of GNU/Linux.
That probably decreased somewhat around 2010. Gradually it felt like endless repetition with slight variations or interjection of more recent developments.
We're now a lot bigger as a community and have outgrown the "grassroots era". So instead I tend to cover - or increasingly focus on - under-reported threats, such as entryism and subversion attempts. They're likely better use of my limited capacity (mostly time) to research and produce original material.
The focus on software patents and their harms has similarly been outpaced by the need to cover disturbing situations at a patent office very close to home. This week we'll focus a great deal on the EPO's affairs.
Next week we plan to resume this series about the SRA, the fake regulator that acts as a lapdog instead of watchdog of rogue, treasonous law firms.
I'd love to write more about why GNU/Linux is great, but many sites (notably Valnet's sites in recent years) already do this and we can link to what they publish instead of trying to replicate/articulate similar arguments.
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