“I Am Not Afraid of...”
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2009-07-13 12:23:00 UTC
- Modified: 2009-07-13 12:23:00 UTC
Recent Techrights' Posts
- Hate Mail From Anonymous Cowards
- if this persists, we'll need to escalate
- Informal Open Letter to the Lawyer of the Microsofters (on Who's Funding the SLAPPs Against Techrights)
- Whenever I ask about the funding they try to change the subject and act all aggressive
- Microsoft Lunduke is Just Provoking People for Provocation's Sake
- Be forewarned and remember where this guy came from: Microsoft
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- Seductive Mirage or Allure of Complex, Proprietary Coffee Machines (or Similar White Elephants)
- Software is a lot like those things
- Links 09/08/2025: Putin Allegedly to Visit Alaska (Which He Deems Part of Russia), Mike Tyson Sued for Copyright Infringement
- Links for the day
- Slopwatch: Linux Journal, LinuxSecurity, and Google News With Its Slopfarms of Choice
- SEO spam, made with LLMs
- Follow the Money: The Register MS Gets Paid to Promote "Hey Hi" Ponzi Scheme/Hype, Some Fake 'Articles' Might Be Composed by LLMs Already
- paid to promote slop
- Gemini Links 09/08/2025: Rethinking Aliases and Posting on Gopher vs. the Web
- Links for the day
- Links 09/08/2025: Apollo 13 Astronaut Jim Lovell Dies, Slop Future Bleak
- Links for the day
- After Shutting Down Studios, Divisions, Applications (e.g. Skype) Microsoft is Also Shutting Down 'Apps'
- Cuts all around as layoffs persist this month, Microsoft tries to get many people to resign, and debt skyrockets
- Most of Geminispace Can Probably Fit on a CD-ROM or a DVD (the Textual Part)
- If one excludes very large capsules and ones that contain non-textual contenty
- Eventually UEFI 'Secure Boot' Will be Dropped (Users Will Demand Its Removal and Boycott Its Pushers)
- we expect OEMs will just listen to users
- The Register MS: We Know Slop is a Bubble and Mindless Hype, But We Get Paid to Participate
- Call out the culprits
- There Are Probably Over a Million Pages in Geminispace
- there are two many limitations which merit a mention when it comes to assessing magnitude
- Besieged by Plagiarists Who Play With LLMs and Image Fusions
- We really need to exercise or use our collective voice to oppose Serial Sloppers
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Friday, August 08, 2025
- IRC logs for Friday, August 08, 2025
- Gemini Links 09/08/2025: Water Painting and Political Violence
- Links for the day
- Slopwatch: LLM Sloppers in Google News, LinuxSecurity, and More
- they also perpetuate some falsehoods as the LLMs lack any comprehension
- Links 08/08/2025: China King of Plastics and US Dictator Plans to Meet Russian Dictator
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 08/08/2025: Cracking a Family Member's Password and Overdose of Slop
- Links for the day
- Red Hat's Latest Talent Hunt, Day Ahead of Mass Layoffs, is Yet Another Microsoft Executive
- Red Hat will apparently commence mass layoffs early this coming Monday
- Links 08/08/2025: "Quit Facebook" and High Cost of Microsoft/Windows Shown Again ("BlackSuit")
- Links for the day
- Good Morning, Readers of The Register MS
- Things The Register MS could (but does not) cover this morning
- Why Gemini Protocol Has a Bright Future
- Maybe Gemini Protocol's promise becomes more appealing as the Web turns to slop and bloat
- It's a Lot Easier to Participate in the Unethical System Than to Oppose Injustices in It
- Going after powerful and high-budget interests is never easy
- Microsofters Filed Two SLAPPs Against Us, Now They Cannot Keep Up With Judges' Orders
- For over 4 months already their facilitator in London has been under investigation by British authorities because of what's being done to my wife and I
- Censorship Regarding Red Hat Layoffs
- Talk about this? They'd rather not.
- Struggling to Cut Costs, Microsoft Continues Shutting Down and Cancelling Stuff This Month
- There are August layoffs at Microsoft
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Thursday, August 07, 2025
- IRC logs for Thursday, August 07, 2025
- Fake 'Linux' Articles, Written by Bots to Take Traffic Away From Real Articles
- LLM slop helps replace information with junk or misinformation
- When Google's Googlebombing of "Gemini" Was Not Enough; They Now Also Googlebomb "Gemini Space"?
- We know GAFAM not only worries about Gemini Protocol but also attempts to 'infiltrate' Geminispace
- The Register MS Promotes Microsoft Slop, Assumes All Readers Use Microsoft Windows
- Microsoft really dominates the site
- Gemini Links 08/08/2025: KDE/Qt Development and What's Missing From "Retro"
- Links for the day
- Links 07/08/2025: US Punishes India Instead of Russia, Attacks Law Firms to Prevent Scrutiny
- Links for the day
- Read Us in Geminispace as Well
- it's definitely a lot simpler than using a Web browser
- Once a Site About BSD and GNU/Linux, and After Months of Silence, LinuxBSDos.com Comes Back Only as a Slopfarm
- very frustrating
- Links 07/08/2025: Hardware Wars, Mass Recall of Colgate Total Clean Mint, More Microsoft Holes Found
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 07/08/2025: "Right To Manage" and LoRa Analysis
- Links for the day
- For the First Time in a Month OSI's "OpenSource.org" Blogs and It's Basically a Microsoft Blog Post (Microsoft Controls OSI)
- For the first time in a month OSI writes something and it is Microsoft propaganda composed by a Microsoft-salaried operative
- Microsoft, Already Borrowing 3 Billion Dollars a Month, is Trying to Cause Many People to Resign
- MSN (i.e. Microsoft) and others openly admit it
- GAFAM 'Says' is Front Page "News"
- The point of journalism is to check and assess facts, not parrot what people and companies merely claim
- Links 07/08/2025: Apple Makes False Promises, More Trouble for Microsoft
- Links for the day
- OSS Didn't Always Mean Open Source Software
- "oligarchs all the way down"
- The Register MS Does More Microsoft Sez or GitHub Sez (Says) Pieces
- 60 minutes ago
- They Want Activists to Just Barely Walk and Eat, Not Do Activism Anymore
- It's sort of like the ending of '1984'
- Quit Perpetuating the Narrative of Gemini Protocol 'Dying' (It's False)
- The "whisper campaign" against Gemini Protocol
- Criticising Social Control Media in Social Control Media
- Many people are quitting Social Control Media (fewer of them announce this in public)
- Non-Free JavaScript Programs in Banks Aren't Even the Biggest Problem
- Technology was supposed to make life easier; in practice, however, for most of us the opposite effect can be observed
- Slopfarms Are Typically Fake News
- Slopfarms typically relay falsehoods
- Gemini Links 06/08/2025: Replacing a Pocket Watch and Buying in Bulk
- Links for the day
- IBM is Obliterating Fedora
- "Fedora releases were shipping with an increasing number of bugs on launch day even while I was using it for a several year stretch."
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, August 06, 2025
- IRC logs for Wednesday, August 06, 2025
Comments
JohnD
2009-07-13 21:25:38
Avuton Olrich
2009-07-13 14:01:16
Andrew Macabe
2009-07-13 15:10:20
eet
2009-07-13 14:59:18
Greg
2009-07-13 22:01:17
Life is short - there are better things to do.
Stop being a hater - learn to write code. Join the free software meritocracy. Influence the communities direction via the code you commit. Let other people do in their own time, as they wish.
I am afraid of people who stir up hate, and damage the community that I belong to.
Jose_X
2009-07-14 00:43:04
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>> Image released under the mono-nono.com Community Promise. Patent sharing secretive deals also available. We do not offer GPLv3, so quit asking you smelly hippies.
What about the patents that you do not currently own or control but which you are aware exist (eg, from partners) and possibly created yourself and later sold (eg, to patent trolls)?
If I want to use that image for a common purpose (like displaying it on a webpage), where I would also be violating other patents you have (on inventions using that image for webpage use), then can I instead use a partial implementation of that image so that I don't violate your other patents? Or do I lose patent protections to this image if I only do a partial implementation of it?
Is it true that you have many many patents for inventions that use that image specifically to do otherwise ordinary things like opening it in a paint program?
I do not believe it is in my best interest to use your image AT ALL until I get satisfactory answers to these questions.
Thank you very much.
PS: software patents may be dealt a convincing death blow by the courts. If so, I may consider using some of the interesting ideas from your picture but with an eye towards a better implementation of it and in ways where my huge investment in existing artwork and themes won't go to waste.
Chips_B_Malroy
2009-07-13 23:56:11
"Face it - Microsoft has legally agreed not to sue over C#/CLI. The central reason for the existence of your blog has disappeared." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Really? Sounded more like "a verbal" promise, with so many ifs ands and buts, to be virtually worthless to anyone but maybe Suse. Certainly not legal, and if MS had wanted to make it legal, they could have just given a legal license in writing to say the FSF. Not hard at all to do is it? But MS did not do that did they? In fact, MS may have made things even more confusing.
While I am not totally against the Mono/Moonlight project, still I have to ask why? Why do we need it? Is Mono there so MS can spread Moonlight (Silverlight) with the help of Linux? This is the other half of online advertising, its not all about Google, MS wants to kill Adobe Flash as well. And what about Moonlight depending on Mono? Why would we want that? Lets see, we get an buggie inferior Moonlight, which presently at version 1, and they (Miguel) are trying to release a beta of version 2. But at the same time Silverlight 3.0 has already been released on Windows. Sounds to me that M$ only wants the commercials flash type ads on websites to run on Moonlight/Linux, and the almost no premium content stuff like Netflix, to run only on the newest Silverlight/Windows. Moonlight on Linux will always be full of bugs and behind the times that it will not run the good stuff. As such, there is no reason to support it by the average Linux user.
In fact, many of us Linux users, are here to get away from the problems of MS software. Mono is just a bad idea in general.
But still I would not be against Mono, if its was not on live cd's, if it was not in distro's repo's, and if the GPL license was revoked, and it had to use another license.
JohnD
2009-07-13 23:59:01