Marcel Gagné on Mono, OOXML, and More
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2008-10-13 13:58:04 UTC
- Modified: 2008-10-13 13:58:04 UTC
Recent Techrights' Posts
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- Most people use Android and they don't need some bloated office suite because many processes involve Web forms
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- Working Like a Pack of Hyenas, the Microsofters Try Hard to Hide the Truth and Actively Censor Critics
- They even target women
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- That's what the OSI is right now: a salesperson
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- Expect more layoffs
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- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
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- So almost all the money is corporate
- Open Source Initiative (OSI) Reported to the California Privacy Protection Agency (Formal Complaint)
- Time will tell if a Cheeto-controlled California will take this seriously or just brush it aside like a head of state from Ukraine
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- Not all audience is desirable
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- Only some Asian sites mentioned it
- Under IBM, After Killing OpenSource.com, the Next Casualty May be "Community Blog" of the Fedora Project
- It sounds like they already made the decision/s
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- LLM Slop Versus Richard Stallman
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- About a thousand workers laid off per month
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- Even worse for Microsoft in DRC (Democratic Republic Of The Congo)
- Rumour: After FSF Abandons Office in Boston LibrePlanet Will Also Leave Boston
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- Sometimes they don't call them "layoffs" are all; it's just PIPs, RTO, and "relocation" offers. They try to compel people to resign/retire
- Reputation is Not a Human Right, It's Something One Earns
- One can also lose one's reputation for harming women
- linuxsecurity.com is 100% Slopfarm, Nonstop Fake 'Articles' About Security and "Linux"
- More than one fake 'author' participates in this, so it deserves condemnation
- FreeBSD Foundation is Trying to Improve "Laptop Support", But It Has Outsourced Everything to Microsoft Proprietary Software
- Despite many valid alternatives existing and fast maturing
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- Social Control Media as a Rapid Race to the Bottom - Part III - Foreign Interference and Chaff/Flare
- Why would you trust alleged 'communication' (platforms) controlled by the same people who cut your undersea cables?
- The Fall of the Open Source Initiative (OSI): The Problems Are Much Bigger Than the Rigged Elections
- It's not only about elections
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- "Understandably, the ecological cost of compute was never really on the minds of pure computer scientists"
- IBM Absorbs More of Red Hat and There Are Several Layoff Rumours
- Those are just rumours for now
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