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 Bankruptcy
- "Microsoft unit in Russia to file for bankruptcy, database shows"
- Techrights Does Not Compete With LLM Slop, It Exposes the Bastards, Plagiarists and Scammers Who Do That
- People like Scam Altman, still facing a lawsuit from his own sister for sexual abuse against her
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- Links 01/06/2025: Windows TCO, Openwashing, "It's FOSS" Still Promoting Microsoft
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 01/06/2025: Simplification and Networks Everywhere
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Saturday, May 31, 2025
- IRC logs for Saturday, May 31, 2025
- Google Bribes EFF. EFF Promotes LLM Slop as 'Fair Use'. To GAFAM It's a Low-Cost Lobby Hedge.
- So the bribes pay off ("slush fund") and the word spreads
- Slopwatch: Fake Text and Images, Financial Bubbles, and Scams in "Intelligent" Clothing
- Sometimes what they mean by "AI" is just cheap labour somewhere else, as we discussed in IRC a few hours ago
- Why Microsoft is Collapsing (Similar to What's Happening at IBM), As Insiders See It
- IBM seems like one heck of a mess
- Reliable Computing Means Free (Libre) Computing
- Sites that want to promote security ought to deal with the biggest issues
- Links 31/05/2025: US Court Orders Sides With RFE/RL, War Updates From Ukraine
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 31/05/2025: ARM Server and power_supply Subsystem
- Links for the day
- Links 31/05/2025: Slop Stigmatised as Disinformation, Catalyst/Driver of "Death of Communication"
- Links for the day
- Common Sense 101: Do Not Write Blog Posts Saying You Want to Murder Colleagues (or Yourself)
- Only crazy people would think stabbings are a joke
- Links 31/05/2025: Microsoft-Connected Builder.ai is a Fraud and US is Purging Students Based on Race/Nationality
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 30/05/2025: Limmat, Doomscrollers, and Arguments Parsing
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Friday, May 30, 2025
- IRC logs for Friday, May 30, 2025
- The "AI" (Slop) Bubble Already Popped, But It's Not an Overnight Collapse
- where Microsoft put its money
- No More Steven Astorino at IBM, Chatter About Weekly/Nonstop Layoffs at IBM
- What happened? Good luck guessing.
- Looking at Corruption in Europe, Going Beyond the EPO
- Expect a new series to kick off very soon
- Slopwatch: Security SPAM and LLM Slop for SEO and FUD Purposes, Perpetually Tarnishing the Perception of Linux and (Open)SSH Security
- A lot of this Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt (FUD) comes from Microsoft and its LLMs
- Links 30/05/2025: Google's LLM Slop Pushers Are Killing Journalism and Shira Perlmutter Fails to Stop Bribed Regime From Legalising Plagiarism (in "AI" Clothing)
- Links for the day
- Links 30/05/2025: Offline Arts and "Threshold of Patience"
- Links for the day
- Signing Off Serious Lies With a Statement of Truth is No Joking Matter
- It's not hard to see what's happening here
- Links 30/05/2025: LLM Slop Already Ingests and Vomits Its Own Garbage, Facebook Exec Admits Copyrights a Concern Too
- Links for the day
- Mass Layoffs at Microsoft Result in More Whistleblowers From Microsoft
- Microsoft's predatory pricing is further
- Slopwatch: Planet Ubuntu Became LLM Slop and Some People Fail to See the Immorality of Plagiarism
- it lessens the incentive for people to publish real articles
- EPO Poll: 68% Dissatisfied With Quality of Slop (Wrongly Framed as "AI") for Patent Classification
- Slop does not work, it's just falsely advertised with extra hype (funded by slop pushers that sponsor the major media)
- Big Crowds Gather to Learn About Software Freedom From the Man Who Started GNU/Linux in 1983
- "It was a great success"
- Microsoft Layoffs Again in Bay Area
- Microsoft relies on people's false belief that being "in LinkedIn" will get you a job; well, seems like even working inside LinkedIn really sucks and you lose the job
- Gemini Links 30/05/2025: Fighting Against the Bad News, and Slop is Dehumanisation Disguised as "Intelligence"
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Thursday, May 29, 2025
- IRC logs for Thursday, May 29, 2025
