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
- Law Firms Facing the Consequences for Patently Abusive Litigation on Behalf of Microsoft Employees Who Got Arrested for Strangulation and Had Done Even Worse Things
- Having spent 1.5 years bullying me with patronising letters on behalf of Microsofters, last week they got served a massive bill and, in effect, lost the Hearing
- LLMs Breaking Everything
- Computing and the Net became a playground for scammers and "bros", like people who "invented" fake currencies and also try to tell us that LLMs spewing out things will have some real value
- 1989: Free Software as "Open" Software (OSI Didn't Coin "Open Source", It Also Predates Linux)
- "One man's fight for Free software"
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- The FSF Board and FSF Beard
- So the FSF's Board has grown
- New Report From the EPO's Staff Representatives in The Hague (LSCTH) Reveals Many Unsolved Issues
- Local Staff Committee The Hague (LSCTH) wrote to staff just before the weekend
- Links 22/06/2025: More Slop Lawsuits (Copyrights) and "America’s Oligarch Problem"
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- Gemini Links 22/06/2025: Gigantic Toolchest and Annoying Bots
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- The Calling
- Persist and persevere, justice will come your way
- So Far Every BetaNews 'Article' is LLM Slop, So BetaNews is Officially Just a Slopfarm
- They just don't seem to value what they have
- IBM Rumour: Mass Layoffs (RAs) Lists Being Made for Consulting, With Effect in July 2025
- Bogus companies with no viable products and no world-leading (in their field) staff are doomed to perish
- Links 21/06/2025: Data Breach With 16 Billion Passwords, Dutch Government Recommends Children Under 15 Stay off TikTok and Instagram
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 21/06/2025: Notes about Typst (and LaTeX) and Opos
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- Microsoft's Competition Tactics: Sabotage GNU/Linux Installs, Block Chrome
- Edge is dying
- The Microsoft OOXML Modus Operandi: Throw 1,000 Pages of Other People's Work for a Judge to Read Ahead of a One-Hour Meeting
- No time to discuss this - that's the point
- Formalities Officers (FOs) at the EPO Are in Trouble, Reveals Internal Report
- We already know, based on an HR pattern we saw at IBM and elsewhere, that reallocating roles can be prerequisite for dismissal and those who do so expect many to resign anyway
- The Web is Slop and FUD, Let's Go to Gemini Protocol
- Lupa sees self-signed capsules at 92.4%
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Friday, June 20, 2025
- IRC logs for Friday, June 20, 2025
- Links 21/06/2025: Phone Bans for Concerts, Tensions in Taiwan Strait
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- Gemini Links 21/06/2025: Spoilers, Public Yggdrasil Node, Changes to AuraGem Search
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- "Six years of Gemini!"
- From gemini://geminiprotocol.net
- Gemini Links 20/06/2025: Summer Updates and Hardware Failures
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- Links 20/06/2025: Google Shareholder Sues Google and Google Sued for Defamatory Slop ('Hey Hi') Word Salads ('Summaries')
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- Linux Journal Might Have Become the Latest Slopfarm Targeting "Linux", the Trends Are Concerning for Dying News Sites
- They tarnish the Web with junk and then die
- On "Learning to Code"
- quality may suffer, plus things get bloated
- Quick Points Regarding This Week's Court Hearing
- it paves the way for us to squash all the SLAPPs from Microsofters
- Common Mistake: Believing Social Control Media Will Document Your Writings/Thoughts and Search Engines Like Google Will Help You Find These
- Many news sites wrongly assumed that posting directly to Twitter would be acceptable
- The Manchester Bees and This Hot Summer
- We have had a fantastic week so far this week
- Gemini Protocol Enters Its Seventh Year, Growth Has Accelerated!
- Maybe in June 20 2026 there will be over 3,500 active capsules?
- Mastodon and the Fediverse Have an Issue: Liability for Content (Even in Other Instances) and Costs
- self-hosting is the only logical path forward
- Why Microsoft and Its 'Hey Hi' (Slop) Frenzy Fail While Sinking in Deep, Growing Debt
- Right now, like Twitter around the time it was sold to MElon, "open" "hey hi" is a big pile of debt with a lot to pay for that debt (interest payments)
- Europe is Leaving Microsoft, the Press Coverage Isn't Sufficiently Helpful
- The news is generally positive, but the press coverage leaves so much to be desired
- Slopwatch: Linuxsecurity, BetaNews, and Linux Journal
- slippery slope
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Thursday, June 19, 2025
- IRC logs for Thursday, June 19, 2025
- Gemini Links 20/06/2025: Gemini Protocol Turns 6!
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