[Meme] IBM is NOT a Friend of Free Software

Dr. Roy Schestowitz

2021-07-05 22:53:01 UTC
Modified: 2021-07-05 22:53:01 UTC

"IBM is proud of its patent portfolio, and the fact that they produce patents at a rate of 10 a day. With such an extensive arsenal of patents, backed by unlimited legal funds – what chances are left for the VC backed company? This is like the US going to war against Micronesia." —Daniel Cohen

IBM in 2018 and 3 years later: Remove Torvalds! Remove RMS!
Torvalds was sidelined by IBM-connected media around the time IBM had put a bid on Red Hat

The commits in the anti-RMS letter
All the latest changes to the anti-RMS letter

Summary: People must not forget the role played by IBM in the attacks on the FSF (they still try to take away copyrights from the FSF; many of the 'GNU rebels' or coup leaders are IBM employees, both in 2019 and in 2021)

KillerStartups.com is an LLM Spam Site That Sometimes Covers 'Linux' (Spams the Term): It only serves to distract from real articles
Topics We Lacked Time to Cover: Due to a Microsoft event (an annual malware fest for lobbying and marketing purposes) there was also a lot of Microsoft propaganda
Gemini Links 22/11/2024: ChromeOS, Search Engines, Regular Expressions: Links for the day
This Month is the 11th Month of This Year With Mass Layoffs at Microsoft (So Far It's Happening Every Month This Year, More Announced Hours Ago): Now they even admit it
Links 22/11/2024: Software Patents Squashed, Russia Starts Using ICBMs: Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Thursday, November 21, 2024: IRC logs for Thursday, November 21, 2024
Gemini Links 21/11/2024: Alphabetising 400 Books and Giving the Internet up: Links for the day
Links 21/11/2024: TikTok Fighting Bans, Bluesky Failing Users: Links for the day
Links 21/11/2024: SpaceX Repeatedly Failing (Taxpayers Fund Failure), Russian Disinformation Spreading: Links for the day
Richard Stallman Earned Two More Honorary Doctorates Last Month: Two more doctorate degrees
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, November 20, 2024: IRC logs for Wednesday, November 20, 2024
Gemini Links 20/11/2024: Game Recommendations, Schizo Language: Links for the day
Growing Older and Signs of the Site's Maturity: The EPO material remains our top priority
Did Microsoft 'Buy' Red Hat Without Paying for It? Does It Tell Canonical What to Do Now?: This is what Linus Torvalds once dubbed a "dick-sucking" competition or contest (alluding to Red Hat's promotion of UEFI 'secure boot')
Links 20/11/2024: Politics, Toolkits, and Gemini Journals: Links for the day
Links 20/11/2024: 'The Open Source Definition' and Further Escalations in Ukraine/Russia Battles: Links for the day
[Meme] Many Old Gemini Capsules Go Offline, But So Do Entire Web Sites: Problems cannot be addressed and resolved if merely talking about these problems isn't allowed
Links 20/11/2024: Standing Desks, Broken Cables, and Journalists Attacked Some More: Links for the day
Links 20/11/2024: Debt Issues and Fentanylware (TikTok) Ban: Links for the day
Jérémy Bobbio (Lunar), Magna Carta and Debian Freedoms: RIP: Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
Jérémy Bobbio (Lunar) & Debian: from Frans Pop to Euthanasia: Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
This Article About "AI-Powered" is Itself LLM-Generated Junk: Trying to meet quotas by making fake 'articles' that are - in effect - based on plagiarism?
Recognizing invalid legal judgments: rogue Debianists sought to deceive one of Europe's most neglected regions, Midlands-North-West: Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
Google-funded group distributed invalid Swiss judgment to deceive Midlands-North-West: Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
Gemini Links 20/11/2024: BeagleBone Black and Suicide Rates in Switzerland: Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, November 19, 2024: IRC logs for Tuesday, November 19, 2024

[Meme] IBM is NOT a Friend of Free Software

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