Who Are the Communists?
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2010-06-19 00:56:00 UTC
- Modified: 2010-06-19 00:56:00 UTC
"Bill Gates cites copyright enforcement to justify Chinese censorship. Microsoft executives used to call us communists, but they are now clearly revealed as the ones who support communist-style dictatorship."
--Richard Stallman
Recent Techrights' Posts
- Annual Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE 22x) 'Bought' by Microsoft and Microsoft Exceeded Sponsorship Limits by Giving Double the Maximum Permitted Amount
- When people get bribed they tend to forget how to utter a simple word: "No."
- EPO Examiners Point Out to the Heads of Delegations in the Administrative Council of the EPO That the "AI Policy" of the Office is Illegal
- "the Central Staff Committee (CSC) asks the Administrative Council to exert its supervisory role and instruct EPO management to enter into genuine dialogue with the staff representation on the AI Policy, to revise the “Leverage AI” target of 90% AI-automated classification in the SP2028 and to put in place the measures supported by staff in the resolution."
- French Cities Dumping Microsoft Because They Recognise Software Freedom, Open Standards, GNU/Linux Autonomy
- We hope that more French cities - maybe Paris - will follow Lyon.
- LWN is a Voice of GAFAM (Through Linux Foundation, Their Front Group or Occupying Force Inside Linux)
- remember who the chief editor works for and who sponsors many of the articles
- The 'Case' of the Serial Strangler From Microsoft is a Lot of Copypasta (Maybe Also LLM Slop) From the Matthew Garrett 'Case'
- 5RB deserves to know and the matter shall be properly reported in due course (when the time is right)
- EPO Squeezing the Staff - Part II - Office Breaks Rules, Ignores Courts, Defies Justice
- False promises everywhere
- IBM - Like Microsoft - is a Dying Company and Perishing Brand ("AI" is a Lie and Decoy)
- "Arvind is cutting costs (layoffs, PIPs, forced RTO, etc...) like crazy. IBM offices are closing all over the place in the US."
- "Code of Conduct" Invoked When Fedora and Red Hat Users (Since the 1990s) Don't Want to Use Wayland
- That is IBM "DEI"
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- Microsoft Will Shut Down More Studios This Week, Its Media Operatives Will Tell Lies About the Magnitude of the Shutdowns and Layoffs (They Always Do)
- Many people who get counted as "workforce" are "temps" or similar
- Not Much Better Than LLM Slop: Linux Foundation-Funded 'News' Site Writes Linux Foundation 'News', Composed by Linux Foundation Operative, Quoting Linux Foundation Staff
- ...they get paid (sponsored) to produce this spam. Then they call it "journalism".
- What Linux Foundation 'Research' is: Paid Marketing
- What is Linux Foundation 'Research'?
- No, IBM Does Not Care About People With Disabilities
- "Aktion T4" did not seem to bother Watson
- Microsoft's Financial Problems Mean Shutdowns, Not Just Mass Layoffs
- If the original rumour is true, then expect almost 30,000 Microsoft workers to be let go this year
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Thursday, June 26, 2025
- IRC logs for Thursday, June 26, 2025
- The Netherlands: GNU/Linux Measured at All-Time High
- Are any Dutch cities going to announce dumping Microsoft?
- Gemini Links 27/06/2025: "Interstitial Existence" and Autocorrect
- Links for the day
- Keeping Things Accessible
- Gemini Protocol seems to be growing
- Technical People Need Technical Lawyers
- Technical Litigants in Person (LIPs) have many real and concrete advantages
- 10,000+ Articles in About 20 Months (and How We Got Here)
- More bloat does not beget efficiency and "bells and whistles" tend to have a hidden cost
- Links 26/06/2025: Illegal Kangaroo Court (UPC) Failing Scandinavia, K-Pop Agencies Abuse People
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 26/06/2025: AuraGem Twitch Proxy is Back and UI Sluggishness
- Links for the day
- Links 26/06/2025: Noise Pollution Considered High in Europe, Mass Layoffs Next Week in Microsoft Confirmed, Very Large in Scale and Scope
- Links for the day
- No, I Don't Want Your Latest XYZ, ThankYouVeryMuch...
- Wayland is finally ready?
- China Keeps Breaking Into Microsoft Systems, So for True Sovereignty, Nations Wary of China Need to Dump Microsoft
- Looking at data from Taiwan (not China) and Maharlika (not Philippines, the king is dead and Spain is out), there are encouraging signs
- Linux Journal Wants Ads on Its LLM Slop or Ads as 'Articles'
- it's basically another BetaNews
- How to Kill a Monopoly
- in 10 simple steps
- Mozambique: GNU/Linux Rose From 0.5% Last Year to 3% This Year
- what (or how) statCounter is measuring
- Microsoft Layoffs Next Week: About 10% to be Laid Off in Microsoft Gaming (2 Days Before Independence Day), About 20%+ of XBox Staff
- Microsoft is rapidly collapsing
- Next Month Marks 11 Years Since Our In-Depth EPO Coverage
- The same is happening to Microsoft right now
- Free Software Foundation (FSF) Campaigns Against Vista 11, Adds 4 New Associate Members Per Day
- If more people understood the underlying principles, more of them would flock to Free software overnight
- Canonical Seems to Have Culled Some Sources of LLM Slop From Planet Ubuntu
- It's like "junk food", it's not information
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, June 25, 2025
- IRC logs for Wednesday, June 25, 2025
- On "Weak Claims"
- For the record, they sent me unjustified threats, repeatedly tried injunctions (censorship)
- EPO Squeezing the Staff - Part I - Burnout and Family Health
- more exceptional circumstances
- This Month's Mail (MX) Server Survey Shows Microsoft at 0.20% "Market Share"
- We need to remind people that desktops and laptops decline (in proportion to other client devices) and at the "back end" GNU/Linux is already dominant and has long been dominant
- Links 26/06/2025: Filespooler Guide and Learning to Code
- Links for the day
- Why Techrights Cannot be Vilified (and Instead It Gets SLAPPed Repeatedly by Microsoft People)
- Attack dogs are all "bark"; because they have no actual "bite"
- Austrian GNU/Linux Usage Up to About 5% as More of Europe Abandons Microsoft
- Since inauguration day the Austrian people have adopted more and more of GNU/Linux
- Why the "Wayland People" and "Rust People" Will Lose Hearts and Minds (Same Reasons)
- Wayland pushers are fast becoming like "Rust People"
- 5,600 Pages/Articles Per Year
- So far this year we've kept all the promises
- BetaNews Beginning to Show What Its True Goals Are
- The 'new' BetaNews won't be about journalism. It's trying to sell things.
- Microsoft Has Lost "The War"
- We'll soon see the 9th or 10th wave of Microsoft layoffs in 2025 alone
- Slopwatch: A Wreck and a Dreck, "Flooding the Zone With Dreck" or Flooding the Web With Junk
- "Slopwatch" continues today because we have many new examples
- Links 25/06/2025: Thwarting More Software Patents, Overlap Grows Between EPO Corruption and Illegal Kangaroo Patent Courts in EU
- Links for the day
- Links 25/06/2025: Elon Musk’s Lawyers Caught Lying, WhatsApp Faces More Bans
- Links for the day
- Wayland Pushers Lose the Argument, Use LLM Slop and Chatbots to Make Up Arguments for IBM
- Another new low and low blow
- Brian Fagioli Created Another Slopfarm Targeting "Linux" After BetaNews Became a Slopfarm of Phantom Accounts and Pseudonyms
- Mr. Fagioli even had slop about a dead Torvalds (hypothetical) as clickbait
- Wayland is Perfect, Nobody Can Escape Its Perfection! (Or Not)
- Do not form on opinion on Wayland based on politics
- What is "MATA"?
- Think of it as GAFAM or "Meta"
- Moral Duty for "Linux Sites" to Speak Out Against LLM Slop
- My wife has long complained about "Linux bloggers" keeping quiet and thus passive about a growing problem: slop
- In Recent Hours Google News Promoted at Least 3 Slopfarms That Relayed Linux Foundation Propaganda Made by Bots or LLM "Bullshit Generators" (as Dr. Stallman Dubbed Them)
- Google is circling down the drain and Google News too is hopeless
- Linux Journal is a Slopfarm, It's Experimenting With LLM 'Authors'
- Is Slashdot next?
- WebProNews is a Slopfarm
- Please avoid linking to WebProNews
- Microsoft LinkedIn is Dying and Many More Layoffs Are on the Way
- LinkedIn is just a failed acquisition of Microsoft. It causes losses and debt.
- Gemini Links 25/06/2025: Combinatorial Music and Self Hosting
- Links for the day
- Richard Stallman Coming Back to Europe This Autumn to Give More Talks
- His last talk in Europe attracted about 400-450 people
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, June 24, 2025
- IRC logs for Tuesday, June 24, 2025
- Social Control Media, Technology & Catholicism: Synod on Synodality review and feedback
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- How Many More Women Will Managers at Microsoft Strangle and Tell to Kill Themselves (or Try to Kill)?
- The world needs to know what happened
- The New BetaNews: 7 New 'Articles', All of Them LLM Slop
- BetaNews is basically defunct. Nobody writes there anymore.
- Another "Told You So!": XBox Mass Layoffs at Microsoft (Many Recent Reports Were Chaff and Spin), Many Other Divisions Affected
- With mass layoffs at Microsoft the world would be much better
Comments
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2010-06-19 13:18:38
The results of the lack of freedom are nowhere more apparent than on the desktop. After ten years of free software on my desktop, using Windows for any extended time is like moving into an East German apartment block. The system is restricted, confining, drab, featureless, and bare of utilities and luxuries I'm used to. The owners are intrusive and the place is filled with their propaganda. My neighbors often suffer dissaster and perform many paranoid but futile rituals. The owners watch the tenant's every move and communications in a way that's surpasses the Stasi's wildest dreams and George Orwell's worst nightmares. All that I can think while I'm using Windows is how nice freedom is and how sad it is that my neighbors are so mislead and abused. It's creepy to me that I can't escape non free software propaganda by simply avoiding Windows because it is carried by the increasingly consolidated and partially owned by Microsoft media, even on state owned public TV.
Dr. Roy Schestowitz
2010-06-19 17:35:39
"Before he installed Windows 95, John Dodge connected to the Internet using software from a Microsoft competitor, CompuServe's Internet in a Box. Not anymore—Windows 95 silently disabled a key piece of his setup and made it too difficult for him to reinstall it. € "Dodge is no novice. He is senior executive editor of the trade journal PC Week and so had access to the highest-level support engineers. But life is short and even software professionals learn to take the path of least resistance—in this case, the path leading to Microsoft. He has become a regular user of the new Microsoft Network, though he has trouble with its Internet features.
"Still, he believes Microsoft executives when they deny trying to gain market share by sabotaging competitors' software. He just wonders whether Microsoft "has a full appreciation of its actions in the market place." € "There is reason to believe that Microsoft does." € [...] € "Accusations that Microsoft's people lie, cheat and steal information are as much a part of the company's lore as its cadre of millionaires with FYIFV (". . . I'm fully vested") buttons. Microsoft knows it has clout, and it uses what it has: to pressure small competitors, trade-show operators, journalists, retailers (shelf space for non-Microsoft software will be at a premium this Christmas) and everyone else. € ""Can you name anybody that's happy about being in the same industry with Microsoft?" Mitchell Kapor asks. € "Microsoft lives according to a "thin ethics," as he sees it: "Anything not a direct lie or clearly illegal is O.K. to do and should be done if it advances Microsoft's tribal cause. This licenses the worst sorts of manipulations, lies, tortured self-justification and so on." Microsoft is hardly alone, of course; plenty of its competitors would play as rough, if they only could. Others in the industry suggest that Microsoft's small-company scrappiness has kept it from facing the issue of corporate ethics: behavior that people will forgive, or at least understand, in a start-up looks considerably less attractive when David grows into Goliath."
Needs Sunlight
2010-06-19 18:26:34
Dr. Roy Schestowitz
2010-06-19 18:52:36
--Steve Ballmer
"Thanks to Mr. Gates, we now know that an open Internet with protocols anyone can implement is communism; it was set up by that famous communist agent, the US Department of Defense."
--Richard Stallman
"A common danger tends to concord. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In Communism, inequality comes from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence."
--Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
"Communism is inequality, but not as property is. Property is exploitation of the weak by the strong. Communism is exploitation of the strong by the weak."
--Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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2010-06-19 21:51:17
Dr. Roy Schestowitz
2010-06-19 22:08:10