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
- The Free Software Foundation is Looking to Raise Nearly Half a Million Dollars by Year's End
- And it really needs the money, unlike the EFF which sits on a humongous pile of oligarchs' and GAFAM cash
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- Links 19/11/2024: War on Cables?
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- Drew's Development Mailing Lists and Patches to 'Refine' His Attack Pieces Against the FSF's Founder
- Way to bury oneself in one's own grave...
- What IBMers Say About IBM Causing IBMers to Resign (by Making Life Hard/Impossible) and Why Red Hat Was a Waste of Money to Buy
- partnering with GAFAM
- In Some Countries, Desktop/Laptop Usage Has Fallen to the Point Where Microsoft and Windows (and Intel) Barely Matter Anymore
- Microsoft is the next Intel basically
- [Meme] The Web Wasn't Always Proprietary Computer Programs Disguised as 'Web Pages'
- The Web is getting worse each year
- Re-de-centralisation Should Be Our Goal
- Put the users in charge, not governments and corporations in charge of users
- Gemini Links 19/11/2024: Rain Music, ClockworkPi DevTerm, and More
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- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Monday, November 18, 2024
- IRC logs for Monday, November 18, 2024
- Links 18/11/2024: Science News and War Escalations in Ukraine
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- Gemini Links 18/11/2024: Degrowth and OpenBSD Fatigue
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- Technology: rights or responsibilities? - Part VII
- By Dr. Andy Farnell
- BetaNews is Still 'Shitposting' About Trump and Porn (Two Analysers Say This 'Shitposting' Comes From LLMs)
- Probably some SEO garbage, prompted with words like "porn" and "trump" to stitch together other people's words
- Market Share of Vista 11 Said to be Going Down in Europe
- one plausible explanation is that gs.statcounter.com is actually misreporting the share of Vista 11, claiming that it's higher than it really is
- Fourth Estate or Missing Fourth Pillar
- "The term Fourth Estate or fourth power refers to the press and news media in explicit capacity of reporting the News" -Wikipedia on Fourth Estate
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Sunday, November 17, 2024
- IRC logs for Sunday, November 17, 2024
- LLMs Are Not a Form of Intelligence (They Never Will Be)
- Butterflies are smarter than "chatGPT"
- Business Software Alliance (BSA), Microsoft, and AstroTurfing Online (Also in the Trump Administration Groomed by BSA and Microsoft)
- Has Washington become openWashington? Where the emphasis is openwashing rather than Open(Source)Washington?
- Windows at 1%
- Quit throwing taxpayers' money at Microsoft, especially when it fails to fulfil basic needs and instead facilitates espionage by foreign and very hostile nations
- Links 17/11/2024: Pakistan Broke, Tyson 'Crashes' or Knocks Over Netflix
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- Gemini Links 17/11/2024: Nachtigall Planned, Exodus at Twitter
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- Links 17/11/2024: China's Diplomacy and Gazprom Setback
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- Sudan Has Reached a State of Android Domination (93% Market Share, All-Time High According to statCounter)
- countries at war buy fewer laptops?
- [Meme] Just Do It?
- 'FSF' Europe (Microsoft) and FSF
- Microsoft Front Groups Against the FSF, Home of GPL, GNU, and Free Software
- Much of the money (not all of it) comes from the criminals at Redmond
- Centralisation is Dooming the Web, RSS is One Workaround (But Not "Planets")
- At least Gemini Protocol rejects centralisation
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Saturday, November 16, 2024
- IRC logs for Saturday, November 16, 2024
- Links 17/11/2024: Wars, Bailouts, and Censorship
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- Gemini Links 17/11/2024: Changing Interests and HamsterCMS
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