Links 09/05/2008: GPL wins in court Again, 100% Free Software PC Finally Available
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2008-05-09 08:35:09 UTC
- Modified: 2008-05-09 08:35:09 UTC
- Reliability Study Serves Up Good News For Linux Users
- Digium: Doubling Annual Sales with Open Source VoIP
- KVM and Xen cofounders engage in war of words
- JVM now compiles with Sun Studio on Linux
- Microsoft intensifies anti-piracy measures
- TorrentSpy Ordered to Pay $110 Million in Damages to MPAA
- Here’s my new Business Model: Assume my Customer is a Thief
- Three afterthoughts: OpenSolaris, XP SP3, taxing MP3 players
- Rich Green, viceprezident Sunu o open source
- Do we need to protect open source from the cloud?
- Tomorrow: Court hearing in Welte vs. Skype GPL case
- The GPL Wins Again - Welte vs. Skype Technologies SA (Germany)
- 199 Euro laptop with OpenOffice.org pre-installed
- Word Users, Prepare For Critical Update
- India and Belgium decry Chinese cyber attacks
- I Was A Teenage Bot Master
- India set to counter Chinese net attacks
- Fighting the agents of organized cybercrime
- Scary security numbers from Trend Micro
- LAC Now Shipping gNewSense 2.0 Systems (1 May 2008)
- Unixfication II
- Freenet: An Open Source, Anonymous Voice for Anyone
- Google Grilled on Human Rights
- Google addresses antitrust issue on Yahoo ad deal
- Next up: A Microsoft-Google antitrust fight?
- Red Hat Recognises Standout Partners at EMEA Partner Summit
- Red Hat Continues Middleware Industry Momentum
- VIA Gives 16,434 Lines Of OSS Code
- 5/7/08 - Parted Magic 2.2.
- Firebird 2.1: Released 18-Apr-2008
- GNU Guile 1.8.5 released
- San Mateo County levies a serious punishment for traffic violations: Internet Explorer
- SaaS, Open Source and the Migration of Burden
- Thoughts on JavaOne 2008 (mostly good, but lots of confusing messages from Sun)
- Getting business out of social connections
- Top Ten Reasons for a Linux Laptop
- Millionaires, Billionaires, and Open Source
Recent Techrights' Posts
- Microsoft Has Not Much Left to Show Investors, Shares Fall Almost 20%
- It's not even clear how Microsoft makes money anymore
- The Fall of the Open Source Initiative (OSI): The OSI Election is Rigged, Biased Against People Who Oppose the Openwashing of GPL-Violating Bots Operated by Microsoft for Profit (OSI Gets Paid to Promote This)
- they reckon that pretence of calm would serve them best, helped by puff pieces
- In Vietnam, statCounter Sees Microsoft Windows Falling Below 7% "Market Share"
- Can Microsoft still demand $500 or more per Windows licence?
- Fresh IBM Layoffs Reported in Europe and North America, Jobs Allegedly Moved to South Asia (Low Salaries)
- As usual, IBM does not talk about this
- The Ludicrous Mythology of Commonality as Signal of Value, Merit, Popularity
- Devalue what's true, promote marketing?
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- EPO Central Staff Committee: "The Strategy of the Office Lacks Transparency and Cannot be Understood"
- Microsoft and the EPO violate data protection laws
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- Latvia (and Lithuania) Stepping Away From GAFAM, Microsoft
- Windows becomes unessential as Android and GNU/Linux rise
- Microsoft Layoffs Are Infectious (Don't Get Acquired or Become a Partner)
- It seems like companies choosing to become "buddies" with Microsoft are dooming themselves and their products
- A Closer Look Inside the EPO, Courtesy of Benoît Battistelli's Submissive Lapdogs Roberta Romano-Götsch and Elodie Bergot
- new report comes from the Local Staff Committee Munich (LSCMN)
- Links 10/03/2025: Staff Strikes, Mass Layoffs in Gaming Industry
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- Gemini Links 10/03/2025: "Eat The Rich" and Two-Year Anniversary of the 'Space Elevator' Orbit (Like 'Webring')
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- Links 10/03/2025: Small Web Praised, LLM Chatbots Exposed as Worse Than Useless Again
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- A Call for GNU/Linux and BSD Developers to Unite Against GAFAM and the Regime They Empower
- We have long encouraged and continue to encourage people who value Software Freedom to altogether boycott GAFAM
- [Video] Richard Stallman on the Four Essential Freedoms (Manuel Cuda News, 2025)
- Added to a channel several days ago by Manuel Cuda News
- Gemini Links 10/03/2025: Realisation About Young People, Punks, and Discord IPO
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- [Video] Richard Stallman on Understanding the Misconception of So-called 'Artificial Intelligence'
- to "know and understand"
- FSF's Defective by Design (DBD): Amazon Tightens the Digital Handcuffs
- Reproduced verbatim
- The Fall of the Open Source Initiative (OSI): Plenty of Issues, Plenty of Censorship
- The OSI is abusive on many levels!
- EPO Staff Appraisals Apparently Benefit Kakistocracy, Including Cheaters Who Grant Illegal Patents and Punish Good Patent Examiners (Who Find Valid Reasons for Denials)
- In prior reports the staff representatives said that rewards typically went to people who granted many patents, i.e. didn't do proper examination and instead just allowed many fake patents get enshrined as EPs, causing fiasco (from which some patent attorneys could profit)
- As The Web Gets Drowned Out, Sinking in a Pool of LLM Slop, Real News Sites With Real News Become Increasingly Rare If Not Extinct
- This is a real problem
- Links 09/03/2025: Moderna Patents Thrown Out, Climate United Sues E.P.A.
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- Gemini Links 09/03/2025: Lagrange 1.18.5 and Writing Mannerisms
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- Links 09/03/2025: FiveThirtyEight Killed by Disney, Nature (Journal) Chooses Suicide by Slop
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- Links 08/03/2025: International Women's Day, Software Patents Being Squashed
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- Hiding Problems Doesn't Work
- transparent organisations will be more stable and sustainable
- The Harder They Try to Censor, the Bigger the Scandal (and the Impact) Will Be
- We don't plan to self-censor our coverage; sometimes we just delay publication a little
- Gemini Links 09/03/2025: Leasehold Derangement Syndrome, Raspberry Pi, and More
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- All-Time Low for Microsoft in Africa
- it helps show how irrelevant Microsoft is becoming
- French woman (frontaliere) trafficked to promote unauthorised cross border Swiss insurance
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- New York Times & Guardian reporting on Modern Slavery Act prosecution of Glodi Wabelua
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- Diana & Adrian von Bidder-Senn, EVP, Palm Sunday & Debian death on wedding day
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- The RTO (Return-to-office) Layoffs or 'Soft' Layoffs at IBM and Red Hat
- There are certainly many layoffs going on there, but many are described as "resignations" or "retirements" after RTO or some other form of relocation
- Under the Pen Name "John O'Donnell" (LLM Slop, Not Real Article or Author) LinuxLinks Pushes Spammy Page
- it happened some hours ago.
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