Happy Birthday, Linus Torvalds!
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2019-12-28 11:48:59 UTC
- Modified: 2019-12-28 11:48:59 UTC
Summary: Torvalds' 50th birthday is today; the man who took GNU corporate with the corporate Linux Foundation
Recent Techrights' Posts
- Fantastic Journalism by Brian Fagioli
- A lot of today's Web, even "news" sites, is spam
- The Free Software Foundation (FSF) Has Raised More Than Three Times More Money Than the Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC), Which Mostly Gets Money From Corporations, Including Microsoft
- Do not donate any money to copycat organisations. It's worse than money down the river because your money might get spent attacking and even defaming the originals.
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- [Meme] Shooting the Messenger
- "you needn't refute the message, just take out the messengers"
- Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) Associate Sued Us for Publishing Perfectly Accurate Article About SFC; We Sued Them for Harassment
- SFC and its associates aren't nice people
- Techrights Does Not Forget
- Techrights has many anti-censorship mechanisms
- Windows Has Fallen to All-Time Low in India
- In India, only about 1 in 8 Web requests comes from Windows
- Microsoft Criminals: Law Enforcement is the Real Problem
- deflecting the issue and resorting to projection
- [Meme] They Dropped the L (Libre and Law)
- SFLC, could I borrow 75% of your letters?
- Companies That the Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) Will Censor the Community for, Using Their Very Large CoC
- also exploiting poor (and sexually abused) women from eastern Europe
- Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) Has Asked a Blogger to Delete This Page About the SFC, So We Reproduce It in Full Here
- Censored article
- Increasing Productivity With Less Hardware, Little Power, and Fewer CPU Cycles (and Far Less Digital Waste in General)
- A lot of people who glance at our PCs (as they visit us) act a bit baffled, as much of what we're using is a bunch of terminals and some text editors
- Gemini Protocol Keeps Getting Better (Less and Less Reliance on Centralised Certificate Authorities)
- Reliable systems do not depend on third parties, only themselves
- Why We Moved to Perl and Dumped PHP Last Year
- Elongating the lifetime of the underlying stack
- Links 05/12/2024: Explaining the South Korea Chaos and French PM Barnier's Government Already Disintegrating
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 05/12/2024: Domain Changes, Griping With Haskell
- Links for the day
- Links 05/12/2024: Mass Layoffs at Microsoft's PR (Bribery of Media) Agency, UnitedHealthcare CEO Shot Dead
- Links for the day
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, December 04, 2024
- IRC logs for Wednesday, December 04, 2024
- Links 05/12/2024: Formaldehyde and Cancer, US and China Boycotting One Another
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 05/12/2024: Hermeticism, Living in the Shell, and More
- Links for the day
- At the OSI, Microsoft Operative (Funded by Microsoft) Promotes Proprietary Software of Microsoft
- The OSI is deeply corrupt. The good news is, it's barely hiding it anymore.
- It's FOSS? No, It's SPAM.
- Another sellout
- Links 04/12/2024: Social Control Media Thoughts, Enrons of 2024, and More
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 04/12/2024: Soviet Esotericism, Mikrotik is Awesome, and More
- Links for the day
- Techrights is Officially an Adult
- this site's eighteenth anniversary
- Technology: rights or responsibilities? - Part IX
- By Dr. Andy Farnell
- Many Geeks' Achilles Heel: They Don't Take Computer Breaks
- Life can get longer if you stay healthy
- [Meme] Silicon Valley's "Successful Businessmen"
- Debt is not a currency
- Visualising About 0.7 Trillion Dollars of Debt in Supposedly "Successful" Tech Companies
- If they're doing so well, how come they borrow so much money (which some would struggle to pay back or never manage to pay back)?
- Single-Digit Microsoft: Windows Finally Falls Below 10% in Angola
- it's only a matter of time before Windows is down to 5%
- Coming Up With Topics to Cover and Issues to Comment on
- Socialising is a big part of it
- In Asia, Microsoft's Bing Became Smaller Than Yandex and It Shrinks Every Month
- How long before Microsoft pulls the plug on Bing?
- [Meme] Far From What Was Originally Intended
- Makes site about RMS; Deletes his own 'site'
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, December 03, 2024
- IRC logs for Tuesday, December 03, 2024
- Illuminating Microsoft's Dirty Tactics
- Criticising illegal things that Microsoft does can be classified as "Microsoft bashing" or "hatred"
- Proof That Drew DeVault Vanished From Mastodon After the RMS Attack Site Was Linked to Him (and People Pointed Out DeVault's Fascination With Animated CP, Drawings of Naked Kids)
- We assume he just wanted to vanish from Mastodon
- Maybe Bill Gates is Getting Demented Like His Late Father (He Says Things That Are True But He's Not Supposed to Say in Public)
- It happened in a podcast with Reid Hoffman
- We've Clearly Struck a Nerve
- Microsofters and Microsoft proxies have meanwhile lost their temper
- The Userbase of GNU/Linux is Growing, Investments in the FSF Grow Too (in Spite of Microsofters Inciting and Slandering It)
- The FSF's expenses are close to 2 million dollars a year
- Links 03/12/2024: Pat Gelsinger's Firing Spun as 'Retirement', US Exports Land Mines
- Links for the day
- Links 03/12/2024: GrapheneOS, Raspberry Pi 4, and More
- Links for the day
- Links 03/12/2024: Googlebombing "Windows 12", Games Preservation, and Public Domain Game Jam
- Links for the day
- Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (SJVN) 'Works' for Linux Foundation (LF) on SPAM Campaigns, Just Like Spamnil's TFiR (Swapnil Bhartiya)
- How can he publish something like this under his name?
- Microsoft's Debt Ratio is Awful
- It owes almost 150% of what it can give
- Microsoft Has Already Laid Off Tens of Thousands of Workers, "Headcount" is Misleading Spin From Microsoft-Funded Sites
- Expect Microsoft to suck up to Trump, looking for more bailouts (those typically manifest themselves in the form of "defence" contracts)
- South America: GNU/Linux Grew to 8.15% Venezuela, Steadily Over 3% Overall
- holding steady above 3%
- Clownflare (Cloudflare) Debt Grows, Losses Continue
- debt of nearly $400,000 per employee
- Gemini Links 03/12/2024: December Adventure and Social Justice Gone Wild
- Links for the day
- Microsoft Windows Falls to 12.5% in Cuba, Android Soaring
- Windows isn't even doing too well on desktops/laptops
- [Meme] GAGAM: Google, Apple, Gulag, Amazon, Microsoft, and the Rest
- The Web has never been more dangerous and hostile
- ChromeOS Isn't Freedom, But It's Killing Microsoft's Ability to Profit From Windows
- ChromeOS has shot up to 22% in Sweden
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Monday, December 02, 2024
- IRC logs for Monday, December 02, 2024
- The L Word (Not Linux)
- Championing Software Freedom is "dangerous"
- Did IBM Layoffs Stop? Ask Dr. Krishna, The 'Genius' of IBM...
- Trust AK to solve all the problems of IBM by creating bigger problems
- It's Easy to Snyk in Marketing SPAM (and FUD) Into BetaNews
- The latest marketing piece (disguised as information, not shameless self-promotion)
- [Meme] Sportwashing vs Code of Censorship (CoC)
- Expectation of censorship (censor for me... or else!)
- GNU/Linux at 4% in Algeria
- So it more than doubled since last year
- With 4 Weeks to Go (Before the End of 2024) the FSF Has Already Raised Close to 100,000 Dollars
- The FSF must be doing something right
- "Linux on the Desktop" (Less Than a Third of Web-connected Computers Still a Desktop or Laptop)
- It's like we're chasing a goal that's 2 or 3 decades in the past
- [Meme] The Failure of Microsoft Rebranding Campaigns
- market share down, costs soared, back to basics
- 2 Years Have Passed Since ChatGPT Vapourware and Bing Gained Nothing, Yandex is About to Overtake Microsoft in Search
- A cause for concern at Microsoft?
- GNU/Linux Rises to 4% in Ireland, ChromeOS Grows and Android Takes Windows' Lunch
- Windows down to 22%
- [Meme] Meanwhile at Intel (Where the CEO Got the Boot)
- Well, if taxpayers pay to save Intel, then Intel should be publicly owned (by those taxpayers)