Links 11/05/2008: Debian GNU/Linux Serves Millions, Linux Phones Extravaganza
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2008-05-11 08:53:51 UTC
- Modified: 2008-05-11 08:53:51 UTC
Recent Techrights' Posts
- Frans Pop suicide and Ubuntu grievances
- Reprinted with permission from disguised.work
- Workers' Right to Disconnect Won't Matter If Such a Right Isn't Properly Enforced
- I was always "on-call" and my main role or function was being "on-call" in case of incidents
- A Discussion About Suicides in Science and Technology (Including Debian and the European Patent Office)
- In Debian, there is a long history of deaths, suicides, and mysterious disappearances
- Federal News Network is Corrupt, It Runs Propaganda Pieces for Microsoft
- Federal News Network used to be OK some years ago
- Hard Evidence Reinforces Suspicion That Mark Shuttleworth May Have Worked Volunteers to Death
- Today we start re-publishing articles that contain unaltered E-mails
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- [Meme] Sometimes Torvalds and RMS Agree on Things
- hype around chatbots
- [Video] Linus Torvalds on 'Hilarious' AI Hype: "I Hate the Hype" and "I Don't Want to be Part of the Hype", "You Need to Be a Bit Cynical About This Whole Hype Cycle"
- Linus Torvalds on LLMs
- Colin Watson, Steve McIntyre & Debian, Ubuntu cover-up mission after Frans Pop suicide
- Reprinted with permission from disguised.work
- Links 30/04/2024: Wireless Carriers Selling Customer Location Data, Facebook Posts Causing Trouble
- Links for the day
- Links 30/04/2024: More Google Layoffs (Wide-Ranging)
- Links for the day
- Fresh Rumours of Impending Mass Layoffs at IBM Red Hat
- "IBM filed a W.A.R.N with the state of North Carolina. That only means one thing."
- Mark Shuttleworth's (MS's) Canonical is Promoting Microsoft This Week (Surveillance Slanted as 'Confidential')
- Who runs Canonical these days? Why does Canonical help sell Windows?
- What Mark Shuttleworth and Canonical Can to Remedy the Damage Done to Frans Pop's Family
- Mr. Shuttleworth and Canonical as a company can at the very least apologise for putting undue pressure
- Amnesty International & Debian Day suicides comparison
- Reprinted with permission from disguised.work
- [Meme] A Way to Get No Real Work Done
- Walter White looking at phone: Your changes could not be saved to device
- Modern Measures of 'Productivity' Boil Down to Time Wasting and Misguided Measurements/Yardsticks
- People are forgetting the value of nature and other human beings
- Countries That Beat the United States at RSF's World Press Freedom Index (After US Plunged Some More)
- The United States (US) was 17 when these rankings started in 2002
- Record Productivity and Preserving People's Past on the Net
- We're very productive these days, partly owing to online news slowing down (less time spent on curating Daily Links)
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Monday, April 29, 2024
- IRC logs for Monday, April 29, 2024
- Links 30/04/2024: Malaysian and Russian Governments Crack Down on Journalists
- Links for the day
- Frans Pop Debian Day suicide, Ubuntu, Google and the DEP-5 machine-readable copyright file
- Reprinted with permission from disguised.work
- Axel Beckert (ETH Zurich), the mentality of sexual violence on campus
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- [Meme] Russian Reversal
- Mark Shuttleworth: In Soviet Russia's spacecraft... Man exploits peasants
- Frans Pop & Debian suicide denial
- Reprinted with permission from disguised.work
- The Real Threats to Society Include Software Patents and the Corporations That Promote Them
- The OIN issue isn't a new one and many recognise this by now
- Links 30/04/2024: OpenBSD and Enterprise Cloaking Device
- Links for the day
- Microsoft Still Owes Over 100 Billion Dollars and It Cannot be Paid Back Using 'Goodwill'
- Meanwhile, Microsoft's cash at hand (in the bank) nearly halved in the past year.
- [Teaser] Ubuntu Cover-up After Death
- Attack the messenger
- The Cyber Show Explains What CCTV is About
- CCTV does not typically resolve crime
- [Video] Ignore Buzzwords and Pay Attention to Attacks on Software Developers
- AI in the Machine Learning sense is nothing new
- Outline of Themes to Cover in the Coming Weeks
- We're accelerating coverage and increasing focus on suppressed topics
- [Video] Not Everyone Claiming to Protect the Vulnerable is Being Honest
- "Diversity" bursaries aren't always what they seem to be
- [Video] Enshittification of the Media, of the Web, and of Computing in General
- It manifests itself in altered conditions and expectations
- [Meme] Write Code 100% of the Time
- IBM: Produce code for us till we buy the community... And never use "bad words" like "master" and "slave" (pioneered by IBM itself in the computing context)
- [Video] How Much Will It Take for Most People to Realise "Open Source" Became Just Openwashing (Proprietary Giants Exploiting Cost-Free or Unpaid 'Human Resources')?
- turning "Open Source" into proprietary software
- Freedom of Speech... Let's Ban All Software Freedom Speeches?
- There's a moral panic over people trying to actually control their computing
- Richard Stallman's Talk in Spain Canceled (at Short Notice)
- So it seems to have been canceled very fast
- Links 29/04/2024: "AI" Hype Deflated, Economies Slow Down Further
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 29/04/2024: Gopher Experiment and Profectus Alpha 0.9
- Links for the day
- [Video] Why Microsoft is by Far the Biggest Foe of Computer Security (Clue: It Profits From Security Failings)
- Microsoft is infiltrating policy-making bodies, ensuring real security is never pursued
- Debian 'Cabal' (via SPI) Tried to Silence or 'Cancel' Daniel Pocock at DNS Level. It Didn't Work. It Backfired as the Material Received Even More Visibility.
- know the truth about modern slavery
- Lucas Nussbaum & Debian attempted exploit of OVH Hosting insider
- Reprinted with permission from disguised.work
- Software in the Public Interest (SPI) is Not a Friend of Freedom
- We'll shortly reproduce two older articles from disguised.work
- Harassment Against My Wife Continues
- Drug addict versus family of Techrights authors
- Syria, John Lennon & Debian WIPO panel appointed
- Reprinted with permission from disguised.work
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Sunday, April 28, 2024
- IRC logs for Sunday, April 28, 2024
- [Video] GNU and Linux Everywhere (Except by Name)
- In a sense, Linux already has over 50% of the world's "OS" market
- [Video] Canonical Isn't (No Longer) Serious About Making GNU/Linux Succeed in Desktops/Laptops
- Some of the notorious (or "controversial") policies of Canonical have been covered here for years
- [Video] What We've Learned About Debian From Emeritus Debian Developer Daniel Pocock
- pressure had been put on us (by Debian people and their employer/s) and as a result we did not republish Debian material for a number of years
- Bruce Perens & Debian public domain trademark promise
- Reprinted with permission from disguised.work
- Links 28/04/2024: Shareholders Worry "AI" Hype Brings No Income, Money Down the Drain
- Links for the day
- Lawyer won't lie for Molly de Blanc & Chris Lamb (mollamby)
- Reprinted with permission from disguised.work
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Saturday, April 27, 2024
- IRC logs for Saturday, April 27, 2024
Comments
David Heath
2008-05-11 11:44:50
However, I need the hits! ~smile~
rub me
2008-05-11 12:18:39
Woods
2008-05-11 12:37:20
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/Microsoft-mobile-phone,news-28182.html
interesting, considering the Wintel-moves with OLPC...
Roy Schestowitz
2008-05-11 12:48:36
Thanks, I saw that a few days ago and shared it elsewhere (putting things in perspective using related articles, which I append below). In the links postings I never include any excepts, so I thought adding it here would seem like (or even serve as) Microsoft promotion. I sent it for inclusion in Groklaw though, where bits that show Microsoft attaching strings get highlighted in the form of selective excerpts.
It's very ironic that the same company which ridiculed the idea of computing for the poor (notably OLPC) hopes that we will suddenly forget this and accept its entrance into this market, provided there's 'addiction' to Windows. Microsoft perceives these people as prospective clients and hopes that its obedient media will perceive and also present this as charity. It's a win-win situation for Microsoft and at the end of the day it's more unethical than ethical. To Microsoft it's merely an investment which is bound to cost these people when they grow older. The same goes for donations to some schools. I ought to accumulate more links and present them sensibly in order to defend this view which is seen as controversial to those who don't know better. Remember that people are brainwashed to believe all sorts of things, including: (1) software patents are crucial for innovation; (2) DRM defends musicians; (3) open source is, by definition, difficult to use; (4) Free software is about being cheap.
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From: Roy Schestowitz
Microsoft to Increase Focus on Handsets for Poor
,----[ Quote ] | It's a subtle change from the past now that Craig Mundie, chief research | and strategy officer at Microsoft, has taken over the company's Unlimited | Potential Group, which focuses on the developing world. `----
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/145633/microsoft_to_increa...
The Unlimited Addiction Group is about getting people dependent on Windows, especially where Free software gets adopted. It's an unethical program intended to identity areas of competition for Microsoft and then dumping dependencies onto them. The group's leader recently ditched the company. No surprises.
Related:
Governments Must Reject Gates' $3 Bid to Addict Next Billion PC Users
,----[ Quote ] | "Microsoft's strategy of getting developing nations hooked on its | software was clearly outlined by Bill Gates almost a decade ago," said | Con Zymaris, CEO of long-standing open source firm Cybersource. | | Specifically, Bill Gates, citing China as an example, said: | | "Although about 3 million computers get sold every year in China, but | people don't pay for the software," he said. "Someday they will, though. | As long as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. | They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to | collect sometime in the next decade."[1] `----
http://www.cybersource.com.au/press/gates_set_to_addict_next_billion.html