Site Maintenance Ongoing

Dr. Roy Schestowitz

2019-06-30 09:31:32 UTC
Modified: 2019-06-30 09:31:32 UTC

Just writing endlessly isn't the goal. Maintenance is required too.

Maintenance

Summary: Behind the scenes -- so to speak -- Techrights is improving and growing; we should soon be able to produce more per day

TWO months ago we said we would spend a lot of effort organising the site and tidying things up (this was last said 5 weeks ago). Almost 26,000 blog posts later (and lots of documents, Wiki pages, media files etc.) we realise that old material isn't easy to find. A lot of it is still relevant. We've covered software patents in Europe for many years and software patents in the US since 2006, i.e. 8 years before Alice and long before 35 U.S.C. €§ 101. The history of this battle is long and complicated. I literally spent (but not wasted) my whole adult life fighting these things. I'm driven sorely by ideology -- the belief that these patents pose an existential risk to software development as we know it.

Today we add the following large Wiki pages, which are in effect index pages. For software:

As we said many times before, expect IBM's patent policy to be imposed on Red Hat. It won't be pretty.

For patents:

For Linux:

Other:

With help from iophk we've also made the following list of sites from which we often extract and find GNU/Linux news picks.

We've been making a lot of changes at the back end lately. They're not visible to users/readers, but they make us a lot more efficient and hopefully effective too. These changes are associated with backup, monitoring (of system events), security, efficiency, availability, workflow, and reach. Our IRC channels are also in a very healthy state and now involve more people than ever. We might, in the near future, cover politics a little less and use the spare time to post more articles per day. We wish to take this site to the next level, so to speak. ⬆

Recent Techrights' Posts

More Microsoft-Red Hat Cross-Pollination as the Company Loses a Managing Director: some people move from Microsoft to Red Hat and some do the opposite
Cloudflare Gives Us All Another Reason to Boycott Cloudflare: If Cloudflare wants to use its vast surveillance network (which is what it does as a CDN) to foist paywalls and maybe something worse (like DRM on top), then Cloudflare should be more widely rejected as a company
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) Has Un-cancelled the Best People, Just in Time for the Big 4-0: Mr. Oliva should have been there all along (since 2019)
Most "Modern" Technology Makes You Slower and Dumber: Because proprietary software makes you worse off
"What Comes After Free Software?" Wrongly Insinuates We've Reached the Goal (Prison is Not the Goal): The oil tycoons use similar tactics against environmentalists, giving them fake "wins"
Making More Work Space: I learned the hard way that less is more in circumstances where more means distraction
MAHA is a Lie, Public Officials Never Valued Citizens' Health (They Still Value Private Businesses, Their Sponsors): Reject demagogues
Science is Under Attack: Oligarchy prefers a dumbed-down population
Someone Expiring Certificates on the Day of the 9/11 Attacks is Not Someone I Would Want Controlling My PC (or Deciding What's Authorised for Booting): "social justice warriors"
The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Has Reportedly Failed People With Wrong Advice: At the moment the SRA has a PR blunder
The Man Suing Brett Wilson LLP and Gervase de Wilde (5RB): Now he's probably using the (almost) 200,000 pounds he's supposed to receive to sue Brett Wilson LLP and former colleagues/partners
Slopwatch: A World Wide Web That's Rotting for Companies That Won't Even Exist in a Few Years: some of the junk Google News is promoting
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, September 23, 2025: IRC logs for Tuesday, September 23, 2025
Links 24/09/2025: Qt Creator 18 Beta, Microsoft Cannot Bail Out "ChatGPT" Anymore, China and US Intensify Censorship: Links for the day
Gemini Links 24/09/2025: Gemlogs and Politics: Links for the day
Links 23/09/2025: Japan Limits Uses of Skinnerboxes ('Smartphones') With Toxic "Apps", Fentanylware (TikTok) Tapped by "MAGAts": Links for the day
Brett Wilson LLP Has Just Been Sued (by Their Own Clients!): Vladimir and Alla Yanpolsky sued Brett Wilson LLP in BL-2025-001167 at the end of last week
The Complaint About Brett Wilson LLP - Part II - UK SLAPPs for Americans, SLAPPs for Profit: Brett Wilson LLP has a track record of this kind
Mayday: Optus emergency calling crisis: Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
Links 23/09/2025: Massive Data Breach, Slop Versus Productivity, and Vista 11 Update Breaks Things Again: Links for the day
Code of Censorship: Extortion is peace
Free Software Foundation (FSF) Has a New Press Kit for the Weekend After Next Weekend (40th Anniversary): miles better than social [sic] media [sic] quips, moderated by narcissists and oil tycoons.
Microsoft Had Two Waves of Mass Layoffs This Month (That We Know of) and It'll Get Worse for Microsoft Soon: Will the axe fall again by month's end?
Gemini Links 23/09/2025: Happy Equinox, Photronic Arts, and Perception Cognition: Links for the day
Lessons We've Learned After 17 Years of American Hosting: GAFAM is "all-in" with the "Trump agenda"
Back to Normal Now, We Plan to Do More In-Depth Series (or Multi-part Stories): Articles (or series thereof) that contain philosophy are important to us
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Monday, September 22, 2025: IRC logs for Monday, September 22, 2025
Microsoft Media is Panicking Amid Mass Layoffs Every Month, H-1B Fees, and "Seattle’s Tech Scene in Trouble": In "late stage Microsoft", copyleft becomes proprietary
The Next Wave of IBM/Red Hat Layoffs Being Discussed Already: Red Hat is sort of disappearing the way Tivoli did
New Techrights Turns 2: Today starts the third year of the SSG-based Techrights
What Scares Them the Most is Independent News Sites That They Cannot Control and Censor: Wikileaks was a good example of this
If You Don't Control Your Online Platform, Then Someone Else is Controlling You: be (or become) independent
Oracle Started This Year With Slop. Then It Stopped.: Passing fads are like this
Distros That Run on PCs Made 20 Years Ago and Don't Use Systemd: Betas for now
The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Has a Policy on Racism and Sexism: In then future we'll show the misogyny and racial slurs
The Complaint About Brett Wilson LLP - Part I - Abusing British Women on Behalf of American Men Who Abuse American Women: Transparency is important to us, so we've decided to make this series
Slopwatch: Google News and the Evident Slopfarm Infestation: This is what people get about Linux when they query Google for Linux
Links 22/09/2025: Murdochs Might Join Fentanylware (TikTok) 'Investors' (Masters), United Kingdom Recognises Palestinian Statehood: Links for the day
Gemini Links 22/09/2025: Esperanto Music History and Apps For Android: Links for the day
Links 22/09/2025: More American 'Censorship' (Retaliation for Journalism), Cheeto "Might Be Losing His Race Against Time": Links for the day
The Blob Slop: Give me more words, give me some text
The 50-Pound Note Experiment and the "War on Cash": Britain is actually seeing a rebound in cash payments, and it's not a temporary phenomenon
Slopwatch: Blaming the Victims for Microsoft's Failures and Plagiarising Phoronix: That's what Google has been reduced to: slop and slopfarms
Links 22/09/2025: Breaches, Windows TCO, and Arrests: Links for the day
Gemini Links 22/09/2025: Rabbit Hole and DeGoogling Fairphone: Links for the day
Links 22/09/2025: Russian War Planes Invade NATO Airspace While Dihydroxyacetone Man Escalates Attack on Free Speech Because of Critics: Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Sunday, September 21, 2025: IRC logs for Sunday, September 21, 2025