Linux Foundation: We Spend Money Buying the Media, Authoring Self-Serving PR by People Who Reject Linux
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2022-09-17 15:11:05 UTC
- Modified: 2022-09-17 15:11:05 UTC
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- Even Uganda Understands That Journalists Never Belong in Prison
- "Ugandan authorities must respect the spirit of this ruling and abandon any measures that seek to jail Ugandans for the free flow of ideas."
- Inaction Helps Your Enemies
- Without freedom, there's nothing else left
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- Windows fell by a lot
- Confluent Insiders: IBM Laid Over Over 800 at Confluent, Not Just 800
- For the record, the layoffs at Confluent won't be over. After the bluewashing there will be "IBM RAs" impacting Confluent folks, aside from PIPs
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- Is IBM another Enron?
- "IBM boss Arvind Krishna... financial package valued at $38 million in calendar 2025 - equivalent to the average collective pay of 765 Big Blue workers."
- continues to ruin the company to enrich himself while pretending he has a strategy
- Over at Tux Machines...
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- For those who have not followed our story
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- They know what's coming, they just don't know when
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- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
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- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
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- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
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- Layoffs at IBM and the media does not talk about these
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- Links for the day
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- Links for the day
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- gets paid to do this
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- Links for the day
- The European Patent Office, Europe's Second-Largest Institution, is on Strike Today
- Lots more to come
- What People Impacted by the Bluewashing Layoffs at IBM Confluent Say (While the Media Says Nothing at All, in Effect Burying the News)
- Worse yet, the mainstream media spreads lies about it right now
- IBM Has Turned Red Hat and Fedora Into Slop
- This is IBM policy
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- IBM Effect at Confluent: Mass Layoffs and IBM's Business Conduct Guidelines (BCGs) Said to be Violated
- For Confluent employees who survived the layoffs there will be "culture chock"
- Over at Tux Machines...
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- Links for the day
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- the basic facts (this has aged well, except the times/ages/numbers)
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- Links for the day
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- Red Hat under IBM is a total catastrophe
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- Their plan for IBM is a personal plan
- Slop-Spewing GAFAM LLM That Knows Nothing and Understands Nothing, It's a Stochastic Parrot That Cannot Even Figure Out Tux Machines is a Community That Started in Tennessee 22 Years Ago
- RMS rightly calls those things "bullshit generators"
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- coming from a generally RMS-friendly account
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- Links for the day
- Estimates That IBM to Lay Off Close to 10,000 Workers in 2026 (Not Counting People Pushed Out)
- There's still chatter about Confluent mass layoffs
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- his reputation is poor in the United States
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- Cannot allow choice
- What IBM Meant to Red Hat: "Proprietary Bundling, Restricted Source Access"
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- We deem it a bigger issue that investigative journalism perished, not that one must rely on hearsay online or mere "rumours"
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- Reject misnomers, explain what's actually happening
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- What is happening to Europe???
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- Sophie Brun, Raphael Hertzog & Debian sexual conflicts of interest
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
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- Links for the day
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- Not going to work all month long
- EPO Staff Demonstration Today
- The demonstration will be live-streamed for those thousands of colleagues who don't live in Munich
- Gemini Links 18/03/2026: Brazilian SYN Attacks and BGP
- Links for the day
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- It helps raise awareness of Software Freedom
- Over at Tux Machines...
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