Links 23/05/2008: Mandriva in Nigeria; Developers Prefer Free Software
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2008-05-23 15:32:38 UTC
- Modified: 2008-05-23 15:32:38 UTC
GNU/Linux
F/OSS
Microsoft
Recent Techrights' Posts
- There's Nothing "Funny" About Attacking Free Speech and Software Freedom
- persistent focus on the principal issues is very important
- GNU/Linux Adoption in Africa, a Passageway Towards Freedom From Neo-Colonialism
- Digi(tal)-Colonialism and/or Techolonialism are a thing. Can Africa flee the trap?
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- Links 05/12/2023: Microsoft's Chatbot as Health Hazard
- Links for the day
- Professor Eben Moglen Explained How Software Patent Threats Had Changed Around 2014 (Alice Case) and What Would Happen Till 2025
- clip aged reasonably well
- CNN Contributes to Demolition of the Open Web
- Reprinted with permission from Ryan Farmer
- Eben Moglen on Encryption and Anonymity
- The alternate net we need, and how we can build it ourselves
- Yet More Microsofters Inside the Board of Mozilla (Which Has Just Outsourced Firefox Development to Microsoft's Proprietary Prison)
- Do you want a browser controlled (and spied on) by such a company?
- IRC Proceedings: Monday, December 04, 2023
- IRC logs for Monday, December 04, 2023
- GNU/Linux Now Exceeds 3.6% Market Share on Desktops/Laptops, According to statCounter
- things have changed for Windows in China
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news
- Links 05/12/2023: Debt Brake in Germany and Layoffs at Condé Nast (Reddit, Wired, Ars Technica and More)
- Links for the day
- [Meme] Social Control Media Giants Shaping Debates on BSDs and GNU/Linux
- listening to random people in Social Control Media
- Reddit (Condé Nast), Which Has Another Round of Layoffs This Month, Incited People Against GNU/Linux Users (Divide and Rule, It's 2003 All Over Again!)
- Does somebody (perhaps a third party) fan the flames?
- Who Will Hold the Open Source Initiative (OSI) Accountable for Taking Bribes From Microsoft and Selling Out to Enable/Endorse Massive Copyright Infringement?
- it does Microsoft advocacy
- Using Gemini to Moan About Linux and Spread .NET
- Toxic, acidic post in Gemini
- Web Monopolist, Google, 'Pulls a Microsoft' by Hijacking/Overriding the Name of Competitor and Alternative to the Web
- Gulag 'hijacking' 'Gemini'
- Links 04/12/2023: Mass Layoffs at Spotify (Debt, Losses, Bubble) Once Again
- Links for the day
- ChatGPT Hype/Vapourware (and 'Bing') Has Failed, Google Maintains Dominance in Search
- a growing mountain of debt and crises
- [Meme] Every Real Paralegal Knows This
- how copyright law works
- Forging IRC Logs and Impersonating Professors: the Lengths to Which Anti-Free Software Militants Would Go
- Impersonating people in IRC, too
- IRC Proceedings: Sunday, December 03, 2023
- IRC logs for Sunday, December 03, 2023
- GNU/Linux Popularity Surging, So Why Did MakeUseOf Quit Covering It About 10 Days Ago?
- It's particularly sad because some of the best articles about GNU/Linux came from that site, both technical articles and advocacy-centric pieces
- Links 04/12/2023: COVID-19 Data Misused Again, Anti-Consumerism Activism
- Links for the day
- GNOME Foundation is in Reliable Hands (Executive Director)
- Growing some good in one's garden
- Links 03/12/2023: New 'Hey Hi' (AI) Vapouware and Palantir/NHS Collusion to Spy on Patients Comes Under Legal Challenge
- Links for the day
- 'Confidential Computing'? More Like a Giant Back Door.
- CacheWarp AMD CPU Attack Grants Root Access in Linux VMs
- IRC Proceedings: Saturday, December 02, 2023
- IRC logs for Saturday, December 02, 2023
- Links 03/12/2023: CRISPR as Patented Minefield, Lots of Greenwashing Abound
- Links for the day
Comments
AlexH
2008-05-23 17:50:30
"We will enhance the feature set and quality [..] to achieve a similar coverage as we have in our filters for the Microsoft binary file formats [..]
"While the feature set of the Word docx filter is nearly feature complete"
Rob Enderle
2008-05-23 17:56:40
I knew that damn Torvalds was a scammer! Gnu/Linux is just one big 419 scheme.
Long live SCO!!
Robbie
;-)
Roy Schestowitz
2008-05-24 00:22:38
egghead
2008-05-24 04:31:27
Roy Schestowitz
2008-05-24 05:35:29
AlexH
2008-05-24 09:36:24
Roy Schestowitz
2008-05-24 09:45:08