Wanted: Generic Name for Patent Tax-Encumbered Linuxes
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2008-01-10 02:28:23 UTC
- Modified: 2008-01-10 02:28:23 UTC
Recent Techrights' Posts
- Real Life Should be Offline, Not Online, and It Requires Free Software
- Resistance means having the guts to say "no!", even in the face of great societal burden and peer pressure
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- Links 26/09/2023: KDE, Programming, and More
- Links for the day
- Mozilla Promotes the Closed Web and Proprietary Webapps That Are Security and Privacy Hazards
- This is just another reminder that the people who run Mozilla don't know the history of Firefox, don't understand the Web, and are beholden to "GAFAM", not to Firefox users
- Debian More Like an Exploitative Sweatshop Than a Family
- Wiltshire is riding a high horse in the UK, talking down to Indians who are "low-level" volunteers in his kingdom of authoritarians, guarded by an army of British lawyers who bully bloggers
- Small Computers in Large Numbers: A Pipeline of Open Hardware
- They guard and prioritise their "premiums", causing severe price hikes due to supply/demand disparities.
- Microsoft Deserves a Medal for Being Worst at Security (the Media Deserves a Medal for Cover-up)
- There are still corruptible/bribed publishers that quote Microsoft staff like they're security gurus
- 10 Reasons to Permanently Export or Liberate Your Site From WordPress, Drupal, and Other Bloatware
- There are certainly more more advantages, but 10 should suffice for now
- About 200,000 Objects in Techrights Web Site
- This hopefully helps demonstrate just how colossal the migration actually is
- Good Teachers Would Tell Kids to Quit Social Control Media Rather Than Participate in It (Teaching Means Education, Not Misinformation)
- Insist that classrooms offer education to children rather than offer children to corporations
- Twitter: From Walled Gardens to Paywalls and/or Amplifiers of Fascism
- There's moreover a push to promote politicians who are as scummy as Twitter's owner
- The World Wide Web is Being Confiscated From Us (Like Syndication Was Withdrawn About a Decade Ago) and We Need to Fight Back
- We're worse off when fewer people promote RSS feeds and instead outsource to social control media (censorship, surveillance, manipulation)
- Next Up: Restoring IRC Log Pipelines, Bulletins/Full Text RSS, Wiki (Archived, Static), and Pipelines for Daily Links
- There are still many tasks left ahead of us, but we've progressed a lot
- An Era of Rotting Technology, Migration Crises, and Cliffhanging
- We've covered examples from IBM, resembling the Microsoft world
- First Iteration of Techrights as 100% Static Pages Web Site
- We want to champion another decade or two of positive impact and opinionated analysis
- Links 25/09/2023: Patent News and Coding
- some remaining links for today
- Steam Deck is Mostly Good in the Sense That It Weakens Microsoft's Dominance (Windows)
- The Steam Deck is mostly a DRM appliance
- SUSE is Just Another Black Cat Working for Proprietary Giants/Monopolies
- SUSE's relationship with firms such as these generally means that SUSE works for authority, not for community, and when it comes to cryptography it just follows guidelines from the US government
- IBM is Selling Complexity, Not GNU/Linux
- It's not about the clients, it's about money
- Birthday of Techrights in 6 Weeks (Tux Machines and Techrights Reach Combined Age of 40 in 2025)
- We've already begun the migration to static
- Linux Foundation: We Came, We Saw, We Plundered
- Linux Foundation staff uses neither Linux nor Open Source. They're essentially using, exploiting, piggybacking goodwill gestures (altruism of volunteers) while paying themselves 6-figure salaries.
- Security Isn't the Goal of Today's Software and Hardware Products
- Any newly-added layer represents more attack surface
- Linux Too Big to Be Properly Maintained When There's an Incentive to Sell More and More Things (Complexity and Narrow Support Window)
- They want your money, not your peace of mind. That's a problem.
- Modern Web Means Proprietary Trash
- Mozilla is financially beholden to Google and thus we cannot expect any pushback or for Firefox to "reclaims the Web" a second time around
- Godot 4.2 is Approaching, But After What Happened to Unity All Game Developers Should be Careful
- We hope Unity will burn in a massive fire and, as for Godot, we hope it'll get rid of Microsoft
- GNU/Linux Has Conquered the World, But Users' Freedom Has Not (Impediments Remain in Hardware)
- Installing one's system of choice on a device is very hard, sometimes impossible
- Another Copyright Lawsuit Against Microsoft (or its Proxy) for Misuse of Large Works by Chatbot
- Some people mocked us for saying this day would come; chatbots are a huge disappointment and they're on very shaky legal ground
- Privacy is Not a Crime, Reporting Hidden Facts Is Not a Crime Either
- the powerful companies/governments/societies get to know everything about everybody, but if anyone out there discovers or shares dark secrets about those powerful companies/governments/societies, that's a "crime"
- United Workforce Always Better for the Workers
- In the case of technology, it is possible that a lack of collective action is because of relatively high salaries and less physically-demanding jobs
- Purge of Software Freedom and Its Voices
- Reprinted with permission from Ryan Farmer
- GNOME and GTK Taking Freedom Away From Users
- Reprinted with permission from Ryan Farmer
- GNOME is Worse Today (in 2023) Than When I Did GTK Development 20+ Years Ago
- To me it seems like GNOME is moving backward, not forward, mostly removing features and functionality rather than adding any
- HowTos Are Moving to Tux Machines
- HowTos (or howtos) are very important in their own right, but they can easily distract from the news and howtos are usually quite timeless or time-insensitive
- Proprietary Panda: Don't Be Misled by the Innocent Looks of Ubuntu (and Microsoft Canonical)
- Given the number of disgruntled employees who leave Canonical and given Ubuntu's trend of just copying whatever IBM does in Fedora, is there still a good reason to choose Ubuntu?
- Debian GNU/Linux is a Fine Operating System, But What if People Die Making It for Somebody's Corporate/Personal Gain?
- Will companies that exploited unpaid volunteers ever be held accountable for loss of life, caused by burnout, excessive work, or poverty?
- Links 24/09/2023: 5 Days' Worth of News (Catchup)
- Links for the day
- Leftover Links 24/09/2023: Russia, COVID, and More
- Links for the day
- Forty Years of GNU and the Free Software Movement
- by FSF
- Gemini and Web in Tandem
- We're already learning, over IRC, that out new site is fully compatible with simple command line- and ncurses-based Web browsers. Failing that, there's Gemini.
- Red Hat Pretends to Have "Community Commitment to Open Source" While Scuttling the Fedora Community (Among Others)
- RHEL is becoming more proprietary over time and community seems to boil down to unpaid volunteers (at least that's how IBM see the "community")
- IBM Neglecting Users of GNU/Linux on Laptops and Desktops
- Reprinted with permission from Ryan Farmer
- Personal Identification on the 'Modern' Net
- Reprinted with permission from Ryan Farmer
- Not Your Daily Driver: Don't Build With Rust or Adopt Rust-based Software If You Value Long-Term Reliance
- Rust is a whole bunch of hype.
- The Future of the Web is Not the Web
- The supposedly "modern" stuff ought to occupy some other protocol, maybe "app://"
- YouTube Has Just Become Even More Sinister
- The way Google has been treating the Web (and Web browsers) sheds a clue about future plans and prospects
- Initial Announcement of GNU (for Gnu's Not Unix) on September 27, 1983
- History matters
- Upgrade and Migration Status
- Git is working, IPFS is working, IRC is working, Gemini is working
- Yesterday in the 'Sister Site', Tux Machines (10 More Stories)
- Scope-wise, many stories fit neatly into both sites, but posting the same twice makes no sense logistically
- The New Techrights Will be Much Faster
- A prompt response to FUD is important. It's time-sensitive.