Do Not Call Free Software 'Open Source' Because It Misleads People and Harms Freedom
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2023-05-08 01:03:47 UTC
- Modified: 2023-05-08 01:03:47 UTC
Recent Techrights' Posts
- EFF Celebrates Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office as "Digital Inclusion", Mocks GNU/Linux-Based ChromeOS
- Yet another example/evidence that EFF has become a rotten pile of junk
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- [Meme] How to Keep Granting Hundreds of Thousands of Fake Patents (Without Upsetting Anybody in Politics and Media)
- This is very Kremlin-like
- EPO Examiners to Adopt Resolution Condemning EPO Management for Breaking the Law in Order to Grant Many Illegal Software Patents
- Europe's second-largest institution (EPO) is a law-breaking institution hiding behind the veil of "law"
- [Meme] Sup, Nazi?
- "Come back, one year"
- Calling "Nazi" and "Right Wing" Everyone Who Does Not Agree With You (Even Leftists Whose Views on Some Issues Slightly Differ From Yours)
- Oil money has become exceptionally notorious for takeover of online platforms and institutions/NGOs (using them to incite society inwards, not upwards)
- EFF Losing the Plot
- Like the Linux Foundation and OSI, the EFF has succumbed to corporate influence and is derailing itself (along with its original mission)
- Links 05/10/2024: Patents Being Squashed, EFF Insists on Children's Access to Porn
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 05/10/2024: Multitudinous Agreeable Futures and Misfin Mail
- Links for the day
- Links 05/10/2024: Amazon Culling 14,000 Managers, About 160 People Resign From Automattic
- Links for the day
- Microsoft Moles in Nerdearla, Openwashing and Whitewashing Microsoft With Its Latest Ponzi Scheme and Storytelling
- Also GPL violations en masse
- The Danger of Outsourcing Your Platform to Social Control Media and Getting "Information" There
- Stella is probably not aware of what she has just done
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Friday, October 04, 2024
- IRC logs for Friday, October 04, 2024
- Links 05/10/2024: Shift to ARM, Microsoft XBox Crisis
- Links for the day
- [Meme] Who to Trust on Privacy... (Not Someone Who Boasts About Breaking Into Devices Without Authorisation)
- You're not even a computer scientist...
- When It Comes to Encryption, The Web (as in World Wide Web) Isn't Secure and Uses Weak Ciphers About as Often as Every Day, Even in 2024
- Gemini Protocol does not
- The GPL Does Not Prohibit Use of Code for Death
- Windows kills even more people, but in other ways
- Journalism in Europe on Life Support
- Assange articulated some of the ordeals he went through
- [Video] Stella Assange and Thórhildur Sunna Ævarsdóttir on Protecting Journalists Who Expose Injustice
- Stella (the wife) says her husband received an invitation from the committee (PACE) while he still undergoes recovery
- [Video] Thórhildur Sunna Ævarsdóttir (Iceland, SOC) Explains That Julian Assange Was Punished for Exposing Crimes (Instead of the Criminals Getting Published)
- Thórhildur Sunna Ævarsdóttir speaks out...
- Links 04/10/2024: Health, Asia, and Censorship
- Links for the day
- Links 04/10/2024: Ingrid's Back and Creative Mornings
- Links for the day
- [Video] The Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly on Julian Assange
- The Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly has voted to confirm that Julian Assange was held as a political prisoner
- Links 04/10/2024: Telegram Issues Deepen, Texas Sues TikTok
- Links for the day
- "The Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly has voted to confirm that Julian Assange was held as a political prisoner."
- This stuff should not have been in Twitter (X)
- Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs) Do Not Run Windows
- The projects that deal with ICBMs are extremely unlikely to involve Microsoft
- "Microsoft is asking for a handout... yet again"
- Just over a month after the last bailout fell through the cracks
- One Step Closer to the End of Microsoft's XBox
- XBox sales are down over 50% in the past year
- GNU/Linux Flaring Up in ASEAN
- We said we'd not post statCounter for a few months
- Gemini Links 04/10/2024: Asteroid City and Retro Gaming
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Thursday, October 03, 2024
- IRC logs for Thursday, October 03, 2024
- Resting Time
- we deserve a short break - even if only for tomorrow
- Wikileaks Revelations About the History of IBM and Its Role in the Cold War
- IBM is still an ICBM company (to this very date)
- Revisiting Julian Assange's Excellent Talk, His First Talk Since 2019 (Tactful and Almost Invulnerable to 'Cheap Shots')
- Assange need not be politically-correct or self-censor
- Windows Kills More Than Most Wars (But the Media Casually Ignores the Death Toll of Microsoft)
- The bottom line is, many people are dying, they die due to Microsoft, and the media fails us by not informing us and failing to even name the principal culprit
- Mozilla is GAFAM, HTTPS is Monopolies
- Firefox used to boast that it would make the Web more accessible. Today's Mozilla is rowing in the opposite direction.
- Gemini Links 03/10/2024: RetroChallenge and Change of Online Habits
- Links for the day
- Links 03/10/2024: Quantum Computer Vapourware (as Usual) and Samsung Layoffs
- Links for the day
- Links 03/10/2024: "Hey Hi" Scandals and Copyright/Trademark Disputes
- Links for the day
- Invidious Seems to be Nearing 'End of Life' After Repeated Crackdowns by Google/Alphabet/YouTube
- To Free software users, YouTube ought to become a "no-no"
- Links 03/10/2024: Climate Issues and Tensions in East Asia
- Links for the day
- Like a Marketing Department of Microsoft, Canonical Sells Back Doors and Surveillance as "Confidential" and "Hey Hi" (AI)
- Notice how Canonical has made no statement critical of Microsoft for years
- Gemini Links 03/10/2024: Frozen Tofu and SGI O2
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, October 02, 2024
- IRC logs for Wednesday, October 02, 2024