Links 24/05/2008: PCs Reborn with GNU/Linux, Fights on the Procurement Front
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2008-05-24 09:41:26 UTC
- Modified: 2008-05-24 10:14:09 UTC
GNU/Linux
F/OSS
Microsoft
- Microsoft Burns Down Book Search
Citing poor demand, Microsoft will back away from scanning and indexing books and academic works for Live Search
- GameStop to Stop Zune Sales
Video-game retailer GameStopGME has decided to stop selling Microsoft's Zune players at its stores due to what it sees as insufficient demand from customers.
- Microsoft needs Windows Home Server test dummies
Microsoft is looking for Windows Home Server guinea pigs to test a public beta of a patch to a major corruption bug that has blighted the product since late last year.
The bug, which corrupts data on a number of well-known Microsoft and third-party apps when the programs are used to edit or transfer files in the firm’s latest server operating system for the low-end, home user market, first reared its ugly head in December.
[You get what you pay for, eh?]
- Newham refuses to reveal revised Microsoft MOU
- "Then, they fight you"
I asked the organizers if our Free Software Group could hold a short session about the benefits of FOSS in education, with references to Ubuntu, Edubuntu and Kiwilinux and we were given a slot after the ones which had already been planned a while ago - those of Microsoft, Cisco and a local company that sells education software for Romanian schools.
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It is sad to know they are resorting to this sort of coercing and that they have such influence over the educators but looking on the bright side of it, and that's how I perceived it after thinking a bit about it, THEY ARE SCARED :)
Security
Recent Techrights' Posts
- Towards GNU World Domination
- The FSF led by Geoffrey S. Knauth with his friend Richard Stallman in the FSF's Board [...] Let's encourage people to adopt GNU/Linux. There has never been a better time.
- RMS is Done at KCL, Next Stop is Oxford
- The message of RMS has long resonated well in India
- US Government Already Bailing Out OpenAI/Microsoft With "Contracts", As Usual, Back Doors You Cannot Remove Becoming 'a Step Closer' on New PCs (Unless Everyone Acts ASAP)
- The next "logical" step towards digital prisons
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- Microsoft 'Studies' Again? Leon Musolff is Writing Papers With Microsoft.
- Even if one can see/find a link to "the study" (in the Bezos-controlled publication), most people won't look any further and just take everything at face value.
- statCounter Helps Visualise Just How Deep in Trouble Microsoft is (Especially in Africa)
- Microsoft sabotaged efforts to connect Africans and equip them with GNU/Linux laptops
- The Register is Using Linux-Hostile Clickbait in Articles of Linux Proponents
- Don't be a "whore" to advertisers, team El Reg
- Microsoft Windows in Cyprus Lacking a Future
- Most people access the Web there from mobile
- Matrix Has a Severe Problem With Illegal Images
- If Matrix cannot get the CP problem under control, many projects and people will dump Matrix
- Never Try to Justify Strangulation of Women (Not in the US and Not in the UK)
- Joint post by Mrs. Rianne Schestowitz and Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- Links 23/04/2025: Tesla Profits Plunge 71%, Intel Ready to Lay Off 20% of Staff, Microsoft and IBM Layoffs
- Links for the day
- Microsoft's Most Profound Issue is That People Moved to 'Mobile' and "App Stores" (Microsoft's Presence There is Negligible)
- Expect a wild ride for Microsoft this year
- Google News is Amplifying FUD and Lies About Linux (and OpenSSH/SSH) by Promoting Slopfarms With Machine-Generated FUD and Slop Images
- Google should know better
- Gemini Links 23/04/2025: Librarians, Anubis, and Refactoring a Gemini Capsule
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, April 22, 2025
- IRC logs for Tuesday, April 22, 2025
- Links 22/04/2025: Ending DEI Policies at Adobe, FTC Sues Uber
- Links for the day
- Microsoft Devises PR Stunts to Distract From Impending Mass Layoffs and Likely Bad Results Preceding Those Mass Layoffs
- A "voluntary exit plan"
- Gemini Links 22/04/2025: Deaths, HamsterCMS, and More
- Links for the day
- Links 22/04/2025: FTC v. Meta Trial and Google Remedies
- Links for the day
- In Turkey, Windows Down Rapidly While GNU/Linux Grows
- Although Turkey is in NATO (but not the EU), it cannot quite trust computer systems controlled by the United States
- GNOME, Microsoft, and GitHub: The Lack of Reporting on Abusive Colleagues Contributed to Profound Media Vacuum (or Blackout), Now Resorting to SLAPPs
- This lack of morality/courage has helped enable further abuse, lining up more victims
- Richard Stallman Has Updated His Article on Why "Free Software Is Even More Important Now"
- Richard Stallman is about to give a talk here in the UK in a few hours
- Microsoft Already Attacks the BSDs as Well (the E.E.E. Way, as Usual)
- Bearers of bad news
- The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is in Trouble, May Soon be Out of Business
- Openwashing needs to end
- Microsoft's Debt Grew Over 6 Billion Dollars in the Last Reporting Quarter (Before Inauguration), Expect Worse Next Week When 'Results' Are Disclosed and Mass Layoffs Resume
- Microsoft is bleeding. It does not want people to notice.
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Monday, April 21, 2025
- IRC logs for Monday, April 21, 2025
- Richard Stallman Gives Public Talk in London in 7 Hours (Need to Register as Venue Limited to 150 Seats), Public Announcements Begin to Appear
- These are not announced weeks or months in advance
- Gemini Links 21/04/2025: Remembering Pope Francis, Crystal Simulation
- Links for the day
- Doing Microsoft's Job. On IBM's Payroll.
- today's Red Hat cannot recognise threats even after a head-on collision
- Google News is Rewarding Slopfarms, Not Journalism
- Don't read junk from chatbots
- Teaching GAFAM in Schools is Like Teaching Children to Smoke Tobacco
- So suggests an FSF presentation
- Richard Stallman, Whose Site is Trusted by Greater Manchester, Has Come to the United Kingdom
- He doesn't suck up to the Crown, so he'll never be "knighted"
- On Desktops/Laptops in Singapore Does a Fifth of Users Run GNU/Linux?
- Probably not, but it's growing fast there
- Links 21/04/2025: Fake Ceasefire and Software Patents (Fake Patents) Thrown Out
- Links for the day
- Companies With Fake Values and a Fake Economic/Financial State (Phony Valuations)
- It'll all go up in smoke, eventually
- Links 21/04/2025: Microsoft LLM Slop (Plagiarism) Going Out of Control, CT Scans' Cancer Problems Was Underrated
- Links for the day
- 4 Years Ago Freenode Crumbled From Within
- there are still hundreds of thousands of users online at any given time
- GNOME Has a Long History (Over a Decade) Misusing the Code of Conduct (CoC) to Censor (Cull) Legitimate Technical Criticism
- This has nothing to do with manners, it's about control (by cover-up)
- Microsoft Has Tainted GNOME, Which Has Key People Acting as a SLAPP Front Against Techrights (Trying to Censor the Site by Extortion and Many Threats)
- One common denominator (other than Microsoft salaries) is GNOME, which was led by an actual professional crank until she quit so suddenly months ago
- Homeland of Linux Kernel Turning to GNU/Linux?
- Adoption of Vista 11 has been relatively low
- According to StatCounter, This is What Linux Adoption Looks Like (Based on Web Requests Visible to StatCounter)
- How much worse will it get for Microsoft?
- Gemini Capsules Still Outsourcing to Certificate Authority Let's Encrypt Now Measured at Less Than 10 (or Less Than 0.3%)
- In Geminispace, Let's Encrypt is not commonly used
- Twisting Microsoft's Failure (Transmitting Malware) as "SSH Backdoors" and a Linux Problem
- Somehow we almost always find that those FUD pieces about "Linux" are based on obvious falsehoods
- Vista 11 Has Burned OEMs and Some Move to GNU/Linux
- When people can finally avoid Windows (there's no reason to attach it to new PCs) there will be a lot more GNU/Linux users out there
- Remember That Microsoft Mass Layoffs Are Imminent Because Its 'Empire' is Falling Apart
- European politicians take a long, hard look a Free software
- Richard Stallman in the UK This Week, Scheduled to Give Two Public Talks (London and Oxford)
- Those talks do not cover the same topics
- Gemini Links 21/04/2025: April, Autism, and ASN
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Sunday, April 20, 2025
- IRC logs for Sunday, April 20, 2025
Comments
master_chief
2008-05-24 12:04:41
master_chief
2008-05-24 12:42:33
Roy Schestowitz
2008-05-24 13:48:39