Guix Petition Demographic Data, by Figosdev
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2020-06-06 04:33:27 UTC
- Modified: 2020-06-06 04:33:27 UTC
Summary: That old anti-RMS letter, which called for his removal (or resignation) from GNU (RMS is the founder of the GNU Project), as characterised by metadata of signatories
33 people:
- At least 21 have a GitHub accounts
- 20 have contributed to GitHub in the past year (GitHub as Microsoft)
- At least 14 are European: 3 French, 3 British, 2 German, 2 Spanish, 2 Czech, 1 Slovakian, 1 Dutch
- 7 work for Red Hat, owned by the FSF's largest publicly known sponsor
- 2 work or worked for the FSF in Boston
- 2 are associated with Google on GitHub
- 2 are from Boulder, CO
- 1 works for a member of the Linux Foundation
- 1 also signed the LibrePlanet petition against Stallman
- 1 of the people from Red Hat strongly endorsed SFC
- 1 is associated with the FFI dependency
- 1 is associated with another "Cloud computing company"
Recent Techrights' Posts
- What Really Matters to Companies is Net Income or Profit (Bankruptcy is Possible Even With High Revenue)
- We ought to stop talking about revenue without focusing on actual profit
- Carole Cadwalladr Talks About How Big Business Tried to Silence Her (and Why You Might be Next)
- Our story is very different from Cadwalladr's for many reasons
- LLM Slop and SEO SPAM Take Us Further Away From Facts (the Case of IBM Layoffs)
- Some of these can impact Red Hat as well
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- Hundreds of Microsoft Layoffs (Net Headcount Decrease) in the United Kingdom
- headcount decreased
- Links 14/04/2025: Russian Attack on Sumy Shows No Intention of Peace, Virgin Australia Admits Overcharging People
- Links for the day
- The Dilemma of Web Browsers Lying About What They Are (in Order to Bypass Discriminatory Gateways Like Clownflare) Worsens Due to LLM Slop
- LLM crawlers/scrapers have made sites more restrictive and hostile towards browsers that are potent but not "famous"
- Companies Conspiring to Keep Salaries Down and Undermine Competition
- People who do all the practical work are being paid less and made to work for much longer
- Links 14/04/2025: Disinformation, Public Disdain for LLMs, and "Lessons on Tyranny"
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 14/04/2025: Ween and Historic Ada Project Management
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Sunday, April 13, 2025
- IRC logs for Sunday, April 13, 2025
- Influencers: Red Hat, Inc's IPO, 1999, post-mortem on the directed share offer to open source developer community
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- Links 13/04/2025: Microsoft Cuts to "AI" and Azure (It's Failing), ‘Ghiblification’ Shows Slop Doing Much Harm
- Links for the day
- Microsoft SLAPPs Against Techrights Losing Momentum
- It always backfires
- Links 13/04/2025: Tariff Remorse and Chatbots Leak Again
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 13/04/2025: No CSS, Spring Scripting
- Links for the day
- Richard Stallman Turns 72 and Will Be Giving Talks in Europe Soon
- We have many local copies of his talks as WebM, having converted files uploaded to YouTube
- Revisionism and Lies by LLM Slop and Lazy "Media"
- What happened to investigation of issues?
- Exposing Corruption and Crimes Against Women Isn't a Crime, It's an Imperative
- When evil and greedy people are so desperate to silence you it typically gives you more motivation - not less - to do more of the same
- EPO Likely Breaking the Law Yet Again, This Time by Using Slop for Patents (to Lower Costs While Producing Monopolies That Cause Ruinous Lawsuits)
- Nobody authorised this
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Saturday, April 12, 2025
- IRC logs for Saturday, April 12, 2025
- Links 12/04/2025: Tariffs Standoffs and Spam 'Articles' About Patents
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 12/04/2025: Isle Release 0.0.4 (Alpha) and Pokemon
- Links for the day
- Links 12/04/2025: Science and "DEI" Dismantled Further in the US
- Links for the day
- Links 12/04/2025: "Part of the Problem" and "Facebook Is Just Craigslist Now"
- Links for the day
- New EPO Leaks: Replacing Patent Examiners and Classifiers With Deficient Bots (Without Even Asking for Permission)
- Any consultation about it? Any media coverage? No.
- The Consensus is Changing and Web Sites View LLMs as Evil, a Malicious Force of Plagiarism and a Source of DDoS
- It's not about "AI" but about plagiarism of sorts
- Slopwatch: Lots of Fake Articles About "Linux" Infect the Web, Google News Still Promotes These as 'News'
- people who go to a site like google.com or Google News or even social control media (where users get links from Google) will be directed to read slop, i.e. pure garbage.
- Gemini Links 12/04/2025: Sigrblot and Conway Calamity
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Friday, April 11, 2025
- IRC logs for Friday, April 11, 2025
