Steven Vaughan-Nichols: Mouthpiece for Jim Zemlin, Salaried by (or via) ZDNet

Dr. Roy Schestowitz

2022-06-29 04:39:13 UTC
Modified: 2022-06-29 04:39:13 UTC

ZDNet and Zemlin are both funded by and connected to Microsoft

Steven Vaughan-Nichols puff pieces
All the fluff about OIN and the Linux Foundation is paid for. It's a priority because of money.

narratives.zdnet.com
The business model (other than advertising for companies like Microsoft). Jim Zemlin's PAC openly admits paying so-called 'news' sites to parrot the press releases. These folks brag about this in sponsorship brochures.

Summary: In ZDNet, all the latest 5 "articles" about "Linux" are just spam/puff pieces for the Linux Foundation (screenshot above), a front group of monopolies and foes of the GPL. ZDNet's Steven Vaughan-Nichols also defamed the person behind the GPL. Follow through to narratives.zdnet.com and find: "Through ZDNet Narratives, our advertising partners tell their comprehensive product and solutions stories" (so it's not journalism but narratives for sale or coin-operated pundits who cover what the sponsors tell them to)

RMS et al
Image source unknown; there's this new letter in support of RMS (to quote, "June 24, 2022. Added a letter in support of Richard Stallman by Francisca Pacheco López.")

Links 08/03/2025: International Women's Day, Software Patents Being Squashed: Links for the day
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Under the Pen Name "John O'Donnell" (LLM Slop, Not Real Article or Author) LinuxLinks Pushes Spammy Page: it happened some hours ago.
No, We Don't Want to Go "Viral" (and You Probably Don't, Either): "Viral" junk gets forgotten quickly
Links 09/03/2025: FiveThirtyEight Killed by Disney, Nature (Journal) Chooses Suicide by Slop: Links for the day
The Harder They Try to Censor, the Bigger the Scandal (and the Impact) Will Be: We don't plan to self-censor our coverage; sometimes we just delay publication a little
Gemini Links 09/03/2025: Leasehold Derangement Syndrome, Raspberry Pi, and More: Links for the day
All-Time Low for Microsoft in Africa: it helps show how irrelevant Microsoft is becoming
French woman (frontaliere) trafficked to promote unauthorised cross border Swiss insurance: Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
New York Times & Guardian reporting on Modern Slavery Act prosecution of Glodi Wabelua: Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
Diana & Adrian von Bidder-Senn, EVP, Palm Sunday & Debian death on wedding day: Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
The RTO (Return-to-office) Layoffs or 'Soft' Layoffs at IBM and Red Hat: There are certainly many layoffs going on there, but many are described as "resignations" or "retirements" after RTO or some other form of relocation
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Saturday, March 08, 2025: IRC logs for Saturday, March 08, 2025
Graveyard of Mastodons: A Vast Number of Inactive Accounts: More than 80% of users in mastodon.social (the "big one") are no longer active
Gemini Links 08/03/2025: Reading Cory Doctorow's 'Little Brother', Abandoning GAFAM Forever: Links for the day
Windows is Being Eradicated: On the Web, in Africa in particular, user strings or UAs that say "Windows" are becoming more rare
For International Women's Rights Day (Today) Staff Representatives at the European Patent Office (EPO) Opened Up on Gender Discrimination at the Office: Office discrimination against women is widely known; unless you sleep with men in management
Links 08/03/2025: Tariff Self Harm and Mostly Solved Diseases Making a Comeback: Links for the day
Links 08/03/2025: Climate Change Causing Food Shortages, Selling Off Chrome Still in the Cards: Links for the day
Gemini Links 08/03/2025: Driving in Japan, GrapheneOS, Tariffs Silver Lining: Links for the day
Working Like a Pack of Hyenas, the Microsofters Try Hard to Hide the Truth and Actively Censor Critics: They even target women
The Fall of the Open Source Initiative (OSI): Bylaws of the OSI a Shocking Oversight: That's what the OSI is right now: a salesperson
Thinking About Abandoning 'Google News' Altogether Due to Easy Poisoning by LLM Slop: As long as Google News keeps sending traffic to these leeches, it'll be very hard to justify relying on Google News for anything at all
Links 08/03/2025: Microsoft Failures, Further Attacks on Speech in Hong Kong: Links for the day
Gemini Links 08/03/2025: Physical Albums, Analog Computing, Deleting All Social Control Media: Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Friday, March 07, 2025: IRC logs for Friday, March 07, 2025
OpenAI, Deep in Debt With Growing Losses, Sees Web Traffic Falling Fourfold in a Year: Microsoft's shares have fallen over 10% since the last report and OpenAI is trying to con people via Wall Street, offloading the debt to some gullible fools
Microsoft's Social Control Media Efforts Cratering (GitHub and LinkedIn): Expect more layoffs
Microsoft Office is a Dying Cash Cow and Now It's Just Dying/Starving: Most people use Android and they don't need some bloated office suite because many processes involve Web forms
Links 07/03/2025: Radio’s Death Knells and US Abandoning Ukraine: Links for the day
Gemini Links 07/03/2025: Replacing Firefox with LibreWolf, Visiting Churches: Links for the day
Links 07/03/2025: Oracle Layoffs, HPE Eliminates 3,000 Jobs, Massive Price Hikes at Microsoft, More Surveillance in Microsoft's Stuff: Links for the day
Manslaughter: Haverfordwest convictions, Abraham Raji & Debian DebConf drowning: Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
Open Source Initiative's (OSI) Latest IRS Files: Only 2.9% (2.90046827447%) of Its Income is From Members: So almost all the money is corporate
Open Source Initiative (OSI) Reported to the California Privacy Protection Agency (Formal Complaint): Time will tell if a Cheeto-controlled California will take this seriously or just brush it aside like a head of state from Ukraine
Half a Decade Without Social Control Media: Not all audience is desirable
IBM Laid Off Almost 2,000 Staff Last Friday and No Western Publication (Newspaper, Web Site) Even Mentioned That: Only some Asian sites mentioned it
Under IBM, After Killing OpenSource.com, the Next Casualty May be "Community Blog" of the Fedora Project: It sounds like they already made the decision/s
Social Control Media as a Rapid Race to the Bottom - Part IV - Physical Health, Mental Health, and Debilitating Anxiety: One is better off feeding stray pigeons (rather than scrolling and clicking on "timelines" like a dumb pigeon)
Links 07/03/2025: WSL Breakage (as Usual), Abandoning WordPress for Hugo: Links for the day
LLM Slop Versus Richard Stallman: "Compilation Of Corruption: Jeffrey Epstein And The Halls Of Academia"
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IRC Proceedings: Thursday, March 06, 2025: IRC logs for Thursday, March 06, 2025

Steven Vaughan-Nichols: Mouthpiece for Jim Zemlin, Salaried by (or via) ZDNet

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