Monopoly in GNU/Linux is Also a Threat
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2020-01-08 06:13:11 UTC
- Modified: 2020-01-08 06:13:11 UTC
Recent Techrights' Posts
- Microsoft's CEO is Hyping Up 'AI' (Plagiarism) to Distract From Falling Interest in It and Missed Expectations (Investors Run Out of Patience as Reality Does Not Meet or Match Early False Promises)
- Microsoft clearly needs 1) a distraction and 2) hype about "AI"
- No, Microsoft, Plagiarism is Not "AI"
- "Satya Nadella says as much as 30% of Microsoft code is written by AI"
- Microsoft Has Become Almost Extinct in Web Servers, Netcraft Now Ranks It in Only One Category (Microsoft Down Sharply), Deranked/Outranked in All the Rest
- Microsoft used to be in all categories, now it's in just one
- Microsoft Has Hundred of Layoffs Again, Same Week as the Company's Fake Results
- those people were in effect Microsoft employees, just classified as contractors
- Sirius Open Source in Court
- I personally was a witness and an alibi
- What GNU/Linux Means to Us
- Linux without freedom is like becoming a vegetarian "except on special occasions"
- Disinformation and Marketing Spam From and For OIN (GAFAM's and IBM's Weapon Against Free Software Activists and Reformists Against Software Patents)
- All in all, this anniversary is just a PR stunt with revisionism
- Symptom or Hallmark of Ponzi Schemes: Microsoft Says It Gains Over 100 Million Dollars in "Goodwill" and Its Speculative "Value" Nearly Doubled to $119,329,000,000 in the Past Year Alone
- Total liabilities are now over $240,000,000,000
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- Gopher/Gemini Links 01/05/2025: Slop/LLM Bot Troubles and Driving Angry
- Links for the day
- Links 01/05/2025: Apple Lies to Courts, European Patents Thrown Out by British Courts Again
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 01/05/2025: Small Web and Going Offline
- Links for the day
- Links 01/05/2025: Slop Blowback, Social Control Media as Vehicle of "Sextortion"
- Links for the day
- Some of the Evidence We'll Be Relying Upon in the Lawsuits Against Matthew J. Garrett
- Finally facing the consequences for his actions
- Gemini Links 01/05/2025: Trying OpenBSD and Usenet Reborn Released
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, April 30, 2025
- IRC logs for Wednesday, April 30, 2025
- Gemini Turns 6 Soon, Still Growing
- Will we see 3,050 before Gemini turns 6 in summer?
- Richard Stallman Re-Confirmed by the Free Software Foundation
- as expected
- Links 30/04/2025: Pakistan-India Tensions Grow, Facebook Banning Publishers Before Elections
- Links for the day
- Techrights Statement: The Solution is Not More Censorship or Moving to Another Mastodon Instance, the Core Problem is Social Control Media Including Mastodon
- Censorship typically leads to additional (new) issues
- Links 30/04/2025: Censorship in the Guise/Clothing of "Combatting Deepfakes", Mass Surveillance Increasingly Framed as Catchphrase "AI"
- Links for the day
- Why Techrights Attracts SLAPPs From American Microsofters Who Literally Strangle Women and Rely on the Most Unscrupulous Law Firms
- "the SLAPPs targeted at TR [Techrights] shows that Orwell was right: Journalism is about exposure, everything else are PubRels."
- The Problem at the Open Source Initiative (OSI) Is Vastly Bigger Than Its Rigged Elections
- Elections and election-rigging at the OSI are a symptom
- IBM Allegedly to Sell More Parts of the Company While Outsourcing to India, Microsoft Now Goes After Unions
- They both have cash and debt problems
- Slopwatch: Google Noise ("News"), Linux Security (Slopfarm), and BetaNoise (Serial Slopper)
- Today there's no lack of LLM slop
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, April 29, 2025
- IRC logs for Tuesday, April 29, 2025
- Links 30/04/2025: "Brian Lumley’s Necroscope Series" and "Death In The Afternoon"
- Links for the day
- Links 29/04/2025: Microsoft Infosys Layoffs, 'Popcorn Lung' With Vapers, Hong Kong Banning Possession of e-cigarettes in Public
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 29/04/2025: Hey-Hi (AI) Isn't Your Friend/Lover, Mastodon is a Mess, and Mandelbrot Programming
- Links for the day
- Just Sending More and More Threats Does Not Change the Fact We Got Abused for Many Years and Women Got Strangled
- Wanting a "gag order" - or sometimes injunctions - by sending many threats
- Links 29/04/2025: Water Scarcity, LLM Slop Backfiring Again in Legal Documents
- Links for the day
- Google Spreading Misinformation and Lies
- Google is in the propaganda business
- statCounter: GNU/Linux Adoption Surging in Switzerland, Windows at All-time Low
- What happened?
- New Video Report About Microsoft Cancelling Multi-Billion Dollar Projects
- direct link to the video
- Gemini Links 28/04/2025: Free Speech and Perfectionism in Design
- Links for the day
- What Fake News Looks Like (IBM)
- IBM told a lie. The media then just blindly repeated this lie.
- Microsoft is Already Laying Off Lots of Contractors
- cost-cutting at Microsoft takes a new "edge"
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Monday, April 28, 2025
- IRC logs for Monday, April 28, 2025
