OSI Running Microsoft Ads (and Promoting Proprietary GitHub) Under the Guise of 'Webinar'
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2023-05-20 02:02:57 UTC
- Modified: 2023-05-20 02:02:57 UTC
Recent Techrights' Posts
- Russian "Hybrid Attacks" Are Typically Microsoft TCO and/or Windows TCO (Total Cost of Ownership)
- Information-related warfare relies a lot on computer systems
- It Seems Like IBM is Firing 'Everybody' (Anywhere, Any Age, No Matter What Team)
- Healthy companies would sack IBM's management (sacked by Board, bylaws etc.) but IBM is a sick company
- Latest Stallman Talk (Event in Argentina) Published
- Less than a day ago they released his talk
- LLM Slop Becoming Rarer
- Today we've found no LLM slop in our RSS feeds regarding "Linux"
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- Google News is Google Noise
- Google News is really hopeless, even on weekends
- IBM: We Pay You to be Obedient or Deny You What You're Entitled to If You Don't Act Obediently
- Good luck starting legal battles with a company that has almost as many lawyers (including aggressive patent lawyers) as it has geeks
- Links 13/12/2025: Jimmy Lai and Media Freedom on Trial, "OpenAI Researcher Quits, Saying Company Hiding the Truth"
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 13/12/2025: Extensive Catchup With Gopherholes
- Links for the day
- Deliberate Lies or Glaring Distortions
- Calling Torvalds anything "Soviet" or "Russian" would overlook the fact he comes from Finland and has Swedish roots
- Canonical and Ubuntu: Working for Microsoft, Promoting Proprietary Surveillance (Dis)Services
- Canonical started with a rich and overambitious Debian Developer. He wanted to become richer.
- EPO People Power - Part XI - The Media in Europe is Ill and Complicit in Ills
- We must all recognise that there's a problem here
- Running With Technology
- At least they always run Linux (all of them, since 2015)
- Dealing With "Tech Cults"
- If you think you identified a "Tech Cult", walk away
- GAFAM is a Financial Problem and Sovereignty Risk, a Policy-Level (National Level) Boycott is Needed
- Europe has plenty of skilled computer engineers
- 2026 Could Very Well be Last Year of XBox, Microsoft Dropped the Ball
- It would be shocking is XBox can stage any kind of comeback
- Links 13/12/2025: Social Control Media Bans and "Could Finland be Hiding a Blue Zone?"
- Links for the day
- Expecting Mass Layoffs, More Microsoft Workers Join Unions
- they see tough times ahead
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Friday, December 12, 2025
- IRC logs for Friday, December 12, 2025
- Links 12/12/2025: GAFAM Now Trying to Settle With Remaining News Sites It Plagiarised, "NATO's Rutte Says Alliance Is 'Russia's Next Target'"
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 12/12/2025: Bad Joke, Western Union Blues, and More
- Links for the day
- Life Began at 40
- This is what I wanted to do all along
- To Linus Torvalds, the Microsoft Linux Foundation is Increasingly a Liability and Risk to the Brand
- If Torvalds is no longer in control or "in charge", then somebody else is
- EPO People Power - Part X - Together, We Can Fix the EPO
- every call for action matters
- IBM Layoffs in Europe as Well
- IBM is a collapsing, dying old brand
- EPO People Power - Part IX - Insiders Say the EPO's Chief Propagandist Effectively Ousted (on Fake 'Sick Leave') Because of Reporting by Techrights
- So the EPO is in effect rewarding a cocaine addict
- Litigation Transparency Until 2030 or 2031
- The ultimate goal is to 1) improve the British legal system and 2) raise awareness of how this system works
- Links 12/12/2025: Thunderbird Adds Proprietary Plug, "Catch-22 of Canadian Digital Sovereignty" Explained by Michael Geist (About GAFAM/US)
- Links for the day
- Developing Some New Software for the Sites
- Sites that are static are in more control over their future and present direction
- Julian Assange on Fake Activists in Silicon Valley
- Julian Assange on Fake Activists in Silicon Valley
- "In a modern economy it is impossible to seal oneself off from injustice."
- ― Julian Assange
- EPO People Power - Part VIII - The Chipmunk on Cocaine, Now Deleting Videos
- video has been removed
- What If the Economy Isn't "Down" But Mostly Diverted? (While "AI" Fills a Gap for Capital That No Longer Exists in Tech)
- "AI" is an "Arms Race", because they need to be bailed out by taxpayers' money
- Techrights Site Search Was a Success After All
- A few hiccups dealt with, ironed out
- Valve's SteamOS, Microsoft Canonical's Ubuntu, and Other Platforms That Only Leverage Free Software (But Won't Protect It)
- Ubuntu "took off" not because it was very good or very easy. Ubuntu "took off" because of ShipIt, i.e. because of a multi-millionaire subsidising its mass distribution (at a personal cost).
- The Free Software Foundation (FSF) Paid Respect to Its Founder This Year, Now It Wants You to Join
- We're glad to see the FSF paying respect to its founder in its Web site
- 2026 Guaranteed to Give Us Compromised Media Funded by "AI" Boosters to Promote "AI" and Sometimes be Composed by "AI" (Chatbots)
- follow the money of the Ponzi scheme
- Under IBM, Things Culminate at "AI-Equipped Customer Experience Transformation" at Red Hat
- Whatever that even means
- Andy Farnell and Helen Plews Now at the Wheel in Cybershow
- Cybershow (Cyber|Show) has very good blog posts and episodes
- Microsoft Trims More Jobs
- The worst layoff year in 20 years, by the numbers
- EPO People Power - Part VII - The Corporate Media and the Reference Sites (e.g. Wikipedia) Are Already Compromised and Complicit
- Looking back at the whole thing, it's clear to me that Europe does not really have free press
- EPO People Power - Part VI - Criticism Not Permitted, Media Subjected to Contempt by Cocaine Addicts Who Manage the Press for the EPO
- Why won't any large publisher in Europe cover this? What does that say about the state of journalism in Europe?
- "Smart" or "Intelligent" Agents and "Vibe Coding" Deletes Everything You Have
- A high price to pay, no?
- New Paper Shows That EPO "Growth" is Dictated From Above, Not Earned (More Monopolies Granted by Breaking Rules, Laws, Conventions)
- "Targets for 2026 are currently being handed down to individuals."
- EPO People Power - Part V - The European Media is Practically Dead When It Comes to Covering European Patent Office (EPO) Corruption
- That sort of sums up where European media/press stands
- Datacentre and Server Maintenance Next Week
- The last time we rebooted into the latest stable kernel was 96 days ago
- Afraid of Words, Not Afraid of Actions
- Those corporations want us to bicker over words, not their actions
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Thursday, December 11, 2025
- IRC logs for Thursday, December 11, 2025
- IBM Workers Still Blast IBM Management for Firing Loads of Workers While Overpaying to Buy Useless Companies
- IBM's CEO is killing the cow
- LLM Slop About Linux Still Seems Scarce
- LLMs aren't dead, but metrics published online say that their usage is fast declining
- Links 12/12/2025: Oracle Shares Collapse After Slop Bubble Inflated (Circular Funding/Financing One's Own 'Clients'), "Trials by Jury" in UK Considered
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 12/12/2025: 'Kinetic Energy' and Browsing Geminispace With a GUI, TUI, or CLI Client
- Links for the day
- Links 11/12/2025: Escalations Around Japan, Software Patents Found Invalid
- Links for the day
- Killing the IBM Cash Cow, Raising Massive Debt Instead
- In a healthy company, the CEO and CFO would get sacked on the spot for doing so. But IBM is not a healthy company, it's just a sick cow being milked to death.
- Links 11/12/2025: Dangerous Flukes by Slop and Bottled Water as 'Placebos'
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 11/12/2025: Repairs, Wisdom of the Crowds, and AC Explorations
- Links for the day
- Those of Us Who Grew Up Playing Doom Must Remember What Microsoft Did to Its Creator
- Doomed by Microsoft
- We Need Your EPO Insider Stories
- To date, the EPO and any other company/institution hasn't managed to remove even a single public page that we published
- Yes, IBM is Also Laying Off Indians (Even in India)
- that goes against the popular/hot narrative of "jobs moving to India"
- At The Register MS, Fake 'Articles' Sponsored by WIntel (Windows+Intel)
- We've meanwhile noticed that there's new sponsored spam in at The Register MS and it might be slop
- Microsoft-Sponsored Wikipedia Spam About "AI", Added by Microsoft Operatives
- When it comes to Wikipedia, follow the money (sponsors)
- Keep on Pushing, EPO Management is in a State of Panic This Week
- Contact your representatives today
- In Addition to National Delegates, Contact the French or Portuguese Governments (Politicians) Regarding António Campinos
- Someone needs to step into the EPO and open up all the closets
- EPO People Power - Part IV - Sexism, Chauvinism, and Lines of Cocaine at Europe's Second-Largest Institution
- Recently, one reader told us about Berenguer, who made the "mistake" of using cocaine in the open market
- If You Want Freedom, Follow Richard M. Stallman (RMS)
- To be clear, I like Linux, I like its founder
- EPO People Power - Part III - Challenging Corruption
- The media - as in the national press - isn't interested in writing about it
- The Flawed Notion of Criticising for Criticism's Sake
- People who are highly critical of things are not "toxic"
- A Lot More Than Techrights
- you probably also want to follow the RSS feed of the sister site
- Over at Tux Machines...
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- IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, December 10, 2025
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