Links 07/05/2008: Yahoo-Microsoft Post Mortem, GNU/Linux Ultra-Portables Overview
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2008-05-07 14:59:56 UTC
- Modified: 2008-05-07 14:59:56 UTC
- Is Microsoft Aura Fading?
- Will Microsoft Stream Office to Users?
- Microsoft's Google challenge remains
- Microsoft running out of options
- MS UK kills mystery 'Live to Code' site
- Ahead of the Bell: Microsoft-Yahoo fallout may help Google
- Failed Microhoo Deal Primes Google for Enterprise
- Without Yahoo, Microsoft remains alone on the Web
- Google Ends Microsoft’s Yahoo Search
- Yahoo Open Strategy could be its salvation
- Is Microsoft Weaker After Failed Takeover Bid?
- Spurned by Yahoo!, Microsoft may buy Asian firms -- analyst
- Bill Gates: Microsoft going 'independent' way
- Free and Open Source Software Guide for SMEs
- Do we need another CERT?
- Opinion: Malware vs. anti-malware, 20 years into the fray
- Malware outbreak blamed on file-swapped MP3s, MPEGs
- DHS grilled over uber secret cybersecurity plans
- Response Team Boosts Open Source Security
- Pondering when your next break-in will happen
- Hacker marketplace to help build 0day appliance
- Low-cost laptop group lands in Australia
- Meet The Hardy Heron: What's New in Ubuntu 8.04
- Sun unveils RIA toolset, new project for developers
- JavaFX: A Bright Future on Open Source-Based Mobile Devices?
- Sun's JavaFX to hoover-up user data
- Archbishop Desmond Tutu a fan of free music
- Counterclaims for extortion, conspiracy, trespass, consumer fraud & abuse, abuse of process upheld in Atlantic v. Boyer
- Switched On: The Linux ultraportable opportunity
- Everyone loves the Eee
- GNU/Linux: Source Code and Human Rights
- MSN Music Debacle Highlights EULA Dangers
- PS3 edges ahead of Xbox 360
- Review: Vista-intosh: VMware Gone Fusion
- Opening up Psystar's Open Computer
- Oracle: Eating its Own Open Source Food
- After Oracle, Former Sleepycat CEO Hunts For Next Gig
- What Makes Software High-Quality?
- Windows Vista: The 'New Coke' of the PC Age
- Mozilla Nearing the Finish Line for Firefox 3.0 - Over 14,000 improvements from Firefox 2
- OpenSolaris: Nice, But Not There Yet
- OpenSolaris 2008.05: Notes from the field
- Moving to Ubuntu
- Easiest Install EVER - Linux Ubuntu Desktop
- Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) on the Eee PC
- Top hackers kept on News Corp unit payroll 'for years'
- Linux Got Game: Warۤow 0.42
- Mass Effect DRM goes too far
- Red Hat signs partnership agreement with Cybercom
- Does a Linux OS perform better than a Windows ?
- Microsoft warns of IE7 lock-in with XP SP3
- Troll treasure: an in-depth look at Qt 4.4
- Get some AIR on Linux
- Harmony Universal Remotes Get Unofficial Linux Support
Recent Techrights' Posts
- Ubuntu Desktop Director of Engineering Has Only One Blog Post. It Promotes Microsoft Windows.
- Remember that even 15 years ago (more or less, maybe 16 years ago) Canonical appointed a a 'former' Microsoft manager (Spencer) to lead Ubuntu on the desktop
- IBM Red Hat on "era of cloud computing", pushing "hey hi" (AI) hype in Microsoft Azure
- LLM slop might actually be more benign than Microsoft promotion
- Corruption and Rule-Breaking Prevail at the European Patent Office (EPO), Europe's Second-Largest Institution
- The law does not really exist at the EPO; it can be perceived as merely a "recommendation"
- 404 Media Says "Workers at NASA Told to Drop Everything to Scrub Mentions of Indigenous People, Women from Its Websites" But There's Also Accessibility in the Firing Line
- In the case of abandoning accessibility, everyone stands to be hurt and proprietary software can be brought in to replace standards
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- Tons of Anti-Linux 'Articles' Published by Bots (LLMs), Maybe Microsoft's
- Upon closer inspection, all this FUD turned out to be LLM garbage
- Gemini Links 06/02/2025: Voicemail Sucks and Night of Lights
- Links for the day
- Links 06/02/2025: YouTube Takedowns Out of Control, 'DOGE' Breaking Laws
- Links for the day
- statCounter: More Countries Where Windows is Around 1% "Market Share" (People Have Moved to Android/Linux)
- in some nations Windows is already 1% or less
- When BetaNews Writes Real Articles About "Linux" They Promote Windows
- The Web is in a bad state. We need to at least try to correct this.
- Gemini Links 06/02/2025: Cynicism and "Real Magic on the C64"
- Links for the day
- Links 06/02/2025: New Sanctions, Layoffs, and Executive Orders
- Links for the day
- Distros and Desktop Environments, Devices
- GNU/Linux focused
- New Rumours of IBM Layoffs in 2025, IBM Consulting Still Struggles, Based on Management
- "Hey hi" (AI) has been a common excuse for business failure
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, February 05, 2025
- IRC logs for Wednesday, February 05, 2025
- Links 05/02/2025: Kessler Syndrome and News Online
- Links for the day
- statCounter: Monaco Now 7% GNU/Linux ("Proper")
- GNU/Linux, not counting Chromebooks, is on the rise
- Many Parts of Google Lose Money
- It's quite apparent that many parts of Google - even some that rely on ad revenue or push ads - aren't profiting
- European Internet Forum (EIF) is Dominated by American Corporations and Microsoft Lobbyists, Staff Take the Lead
- Should the officials over here or the European Parliament pay attention to these people?
- Links 05/02/2025: Connection without Connectivity and Unionised Grocery Workers
- Links for the day
- Just Because People on Top of the Microsoft Pyramid Made a Lot of Money Doesn't Mean Microsoft is Wealthy
- The bigger they are the harder they fall
- Gemini Links 05/02/2025: Learning, Madman Ruling a Mad Country, Back in Geminispace
- Links for the day
- statCounter Shows "WIntel" Chasing a Dying Market
- Microsoft acts as if it's running out of money
- Free Software Foundation, Inc. (FSF) Still Raising Money, Richard Stallman Contributes
- total exceeding $430k
- A Lot of Stuff About "Linux" in Google News is LLM Slop, Fake 'Articles'
- It seems to be getting worse
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, February 04, 2025
- IRC logs for Tuesday, February 04, 2025
- 'Official' Debian Sites That Sell Proprietary and Surveillance
- "Azure API throttling strikes back"
- statCounter: Only 1 in ~40 Web Users in Ireland Uses Microsoft Browser, One in Six Uses Windows
- When/if Windows market share goes down, so will Edge
- Links 04/02/2025: Social Control Media Bans and US Fighting Its Allies, Not Russia
- Links for the day
- Links 04/02/2025: Birth of a Calf, FOSDEM, and More
- Links for the day
- Anti-Linux FUD Sites cybersecuritynews.com and gbhackers.com Turn Out to be LLM Slop, Even Plagiarism That Spreads Lies
- Beware false headlines and fake text from cybersecuritynews.com and gbhackers.com
- BetaNews Began Removing LLM Slop About "Linux", But More of It Keeps Coming From Guardian Digital, Inc (at linuxsecurity.com)
- the other Serial Slopper, Guardian Digital, Inc
- Mollamby, Suicide Cluster, not trademark, the real reasons for Debian legal expenses, evidence
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- Links 04/02/2025: Mass Layoffs at Salesforce, Economic Pressures, Trade Wars
- Links for the day
- The Latest Microsoft Layoffs Are a Wake-up Call: The Company is Running Low on Money
- in most areas it is not even profitable
- [Video] Richard Stallman Auctioning a GNU (Gnu) at Surathkal, India
- clip is only a minute-long
- Software Freedom Month at NITK Surathkal and Yesterday's Talk by Richard Stallman
- the message being spread by the person who started it all
- Richard Stallman Has Another Talk in India Tomorrow, at Least Fourth India Talk in Recent Days
- In the past month he has given at least half a dozen talks
- statCounter: GNU/Linux and ChromeOS Now Measured at 2.78% in Japan (It Used to be Less Than 0.5%)
- really 'took off' half a decade ago
- GNU/Linux Reaches All-Time High in the United States, Based on statCounter
- Windows is the loser; GNU/Linux grows at its expense
- LLM Hype (Chatbots Hyped and Wrongly Characterised as "Artificial Intelligence") Cause Net Inflation
- Net as in Internet, not limited to the Web
- It Looks Like BetaNews' Managing Editor Wayne Williams is Taking Over From Fagioli After Repeat Pattern of LLM Slop (State-of-the-Art Plagiarism) About "Linux"
- The most plausible explanation is, Fagioli got caught or his conduct could no longer be ignored
- statCounter Reckons Less Than 10% in Mexico Still Use Windows to Access to Web and GNU/Linux Surges to All-Time High (Plus, Microsoft's Latest Debt Crisis)
- Looking at Mexico in isolation
- From India to Italy: Richard Stallman's Next Talk is Next Week in Torino
- Announced less than a day ago
- Corporate Media is Intentionally Lying for Microsoft, There's Now a Hiring Freeze, No Replacements for Workers Laid Off in Two Mass Layoffs Last Month
- Maybe the media - at least some of it - actually deserves doom. If it covers up for the powerful to muzzle and gaslight the oppressed, then what sort of media is that anyway?
- Gemini Links 04/02/2025: Tolkien and New Job
- Links for the day
- Covering EPO Scandals in an Age of Mass Censorship (and Europe Being Afraid to Introspect, for It Might "Help Putin")
- It was all along expected that "external enemies" would be invoked to suppress discussion about EPO crimes
- Facebook Finally Admits That It Censored Linux and Banned People for Mentioning It; statCounter Shows Rapid Growth for GNU/Linux in Southeast Asia
- So GAFAM is losing its power
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Monday, February 03, 2025
- IRC logs for Monday, February 03, 2025
Comments
Challenger
2008-05-07 17:48:08
Software life cycle :
10% - Tipping point - (hardcore techies) 30% - Rapid growth - (IT people) 50% - Consumer, User level 80% - Domination
What we are seeing is that Linux has crossed the tipping point.
Next level it has to scale it to the common tech people. It will take a few more years. This is in progress...
Linux has a long way to go...
How long till Linux desktop nirvana ?
:D