“I Am Not Afraid of...”
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2009-07-13 12:23:00 UTC
- Modified: 2009-07-13 12:23:00 UTC
Recent Techrights' Posts
- Michael “Monty” Widenius: It Started in 1983 With Richard Stallman (RMS)
- The other co-founder of MySQL is a bit notorious for confronting RMS rather viciously
- For the Second Time in a Few Weeks Microsoft Lunduke Makes False Accusations Against Senior Red Hat Staff to Incite a Despicable 'Troll Army'
- Nothing that Microsoft Lunduke claims of says can be trusted
- su lisa && rm -rf /home/ibm/power
- Novell was ruined by another person from IBM, Ronald Hovsepian
- A Record Demand at Microsoft: Demand to Cancel
- What we're witnessing is a very ungraceful destruction of XBox
- Richard Stallman is Going to Finland to Give a Talk Next Thursday
- A day later he speaks in Sweden
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- Links 02/10/2025: 'Open' 'AI' Resorting to Gimmicks and Fake Funding, Europe’s ‘Drone Wall’ Discussed
- Links for the day
- Links 02/10/2025: Brave Passes 100M Users Milestone, Kodak Selling Its Own Film Again
- Links for the day
- Microsoft is Losing Europe
- Hence all the "support" and "discount" offers that are limited to Europe
- The Free Software Foundation Starts Fund-raising for 40th Anniversary
- New pop-up 2-3 days ahead of the 40th anniversary event
- Systemd Breaks Networking in Debian and Microsoft Staff Rushes to Make Face-Saving Excuses in LWN
- Microsoft's bluca is already there in the comments, his Microsoft money pays for LWN to let him leave comments early
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, October 01, 2025
- IRC logs for Wednesday, October 01, 2025
- What the End of XBox Will Look Like: a Fiery Crash
- XBox is the next Skype. It won't last much longer. Expect many more layoffs.
- Gemini Links 02/10/2025: SMTP Pipelining and End of ROOPHLOCH 2025
- Links for the day
- Slopwatch: Plagiarism, Fake Articles, and FUD About Linux
- not a day goes by without Google News feeding FUD from slopfarms
- Gemini Links 01/10/2025: Chat Control and End of Life
- Links for the day
- Links 01/10/2025: Long Covid Risk Reiterated, "Bitcoin Queen" Caught
- Links for the day
- Links 01/10/2025: EA $55 Billion Deal is Debt and Slop "Raises Vishing Risks"
- Links for the day
- Bluewashing at Red Hat Means Redundancies
- The man who sold Red Hat to IBM meanwhile became a Microsoft Mono booster
- After Killing OpenSource.com, IBM ('Red Hat') and OSI Told Us OpenSource.net Would Replace It (But That Didn't Happen)
- Now it's time to move on, perhaps tarnishing the "Open Source" label some more (for whatever sponsor wants this)
- Linux is Not a Community Project, It's a Wall Street Product
- The core goal should be freedom
- Bad Actors Abusing the Free Software Community, Vandalising It Using Rogue Politics and Old Tactics
- Oil giants have long attempted to do this; now, the digital equivalent of Big Oil does this in technology
- Social Control Media Isn't the Future, The Federation or Fediverse Isn't Growing, People's Accounts Vanish for Good
- users' accounts will get deleted, not just become inactive
- IBM is Failing, This Helps Show Wall Street is Entirely Detached From Actual Commercial Performance
- IBM is unable to grow, it's just constantly shrinking
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, September 30, 2025
- IRC logs for Tuesday, September 30, 2025
- Clerical Aspects of Publishing and Development
- In Free software, the management aspects are considerably reduced
- Slopwatch: Fake Articles and Google News Promoting "Linux" Spam or Bot-Generated Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt (FUD)
- These slopfarms help misplace blame
- Third Wave of Microsoft Layoffs in September, This Time Many in Liverpool Affected
- Be ready for more waves of layoffs ahead of the so-called "results" in late October
- Gemini Links 30/09/2025: Motorcycling in Central Oregon, Protocol Styles and the Flag of Sark
- Links for the day
- Links 30/09/2025: Death Sentences, Internet Censorship, and Internet Shutdowns
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 30/09/2025: Social Control Media and ROOPHLOCH
- Links for the day
- Richard Stallman About to Give More Talks in Europe, Some Confirmed Already
- In Göteborg
- Links 30/09/2025: CERN in "Have I Been Pwned" and More Windows TCO Blunders
- Links for the day
- Microsoft Canonical is Selling Mass Surveillance and Back Doors as "Security for Ubuntu"
- If you are looking for a GNU/Linux distro to use, just remember that Microsoft has Ubuntu in the bag
- Justice for Wildlife
- animals cannot speak to humans who hate animals
- Cowboys Gonna Be Cowboys (on the Internet, They're Not a New Problem)
- Boys will be boys
- Cowboys of the "Left" and Cowboys of the "Right"
- Don't believe the lie that this is some "leftist" thing
- When Codes of Conduct Serve to Protect Criminals From Much-Deserved Scrutiny
- CoCs are typically unfit for purpose because enforcement lacks context and suitable understanding of the full background (the "full story")
- It Took the Open Source Initiative (OSI) 4+ Years to Address the 'Data Breach' or Data Protection Violation Reported to the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) in March 2025
- We may never know the dialogue or its nature
- Even Microsoft's Biggest Boosters (and Media Operatives) Are Turning Against Microsoft
- Expect many more layoffs before the fake "results" next month
- GNU Was Right 42+ Years Ago
- Since then the abusive, user-hostile technology has spread like mushrooms
- Old Isn't Always Inadequate
- How many gadgets manufactured today (in 2025) will still work in 2075?
- The Monkey Business of Rust People
- Compatibility won't matter
- Almost Half of the FSFE's Money (the Fake 'FSF', Misusing the Brand) Comes From Vodafone
- That money always comes with strings, even if they're invisible to most of us
- Microsoft Lunduke Spreads Deliberate Lies to Incite Online Mobs
- Has he lost his reading comprehension skills?
- Our 19th Birthday (in Just Over 5 Weeks From Now)
- We meanwhile have ongoing, solid plans to cover patent-related issues when the FSF turns 40
- British GNU/Linux Distro FydeOS Tops DistroWatch
- That seems like a decent site and decent effort to keep an eye on
- We'll Soon Have 75,000 GemText Pages
- avoid many perils of today's Web
- Google Used Free Software to Build a Monopoly. Now Google Kicks Free Software to the Curb
- The "G" in "Google" does not stand for GNU. It never did. It's just another greedy company.
- Gemini Links 30/09/2025: Retro Hardware, Federated Fragmentation, and Nex Server Written in C
- Links for the day
- 4 More Days Till "4 decades, 4 freedoms, 4 all users"
- We are now just 4 days away from the rare anniversary
- Two Months After Merging to Hide GitHub Losses Microsoft is Doing It Again (This Time Windows)
- Merging those two together is not a sign of strength but a tightening of budget
- Speculations About the Next Large Wave of IBM/Red Hat Layoffs
- the mass layoffs are likely to happen on week 3 or 4 in October
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Monday, September 29, 2025
- IRC logs for Monday, September 29, 2025
Comments
JohnD
2009-07-13 21:25:38
Avuton Olrich
2009-07-13 14:01:16
Andrew Macabe
2009-07-13 15:10:20
eet
2009-07-13 14:59:18
Greg
2009-07-13 22:01:17
Life is short - there are better things to do.
Stop being a hater - learn to write code. Join the free software meritocracy. Influence the communities direction via the code you commit. Let other people do in their own time, as they wish.
I am afraid of people who stir up hate, and damage the community that I belong to.
Jose_X
2009-07-14 00:43:04
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>> Image released under the mono-nono.com Community Promise. Patent sharing secretive deals also available. We do not offer GPLv3, so quit asking you smelly hippies.
What about the patents that you do not currently own or control but which you are aware exist (eg, from partners) and possibly created yourself and later sold (eg, to patent trolls)?
If I want to use that image for a common purpose (like displaying it on a webpage), where I would also be violating other patents you have (on inventions using that image for webpage use), then can I instead use a partial implementation of that image so that I don't violate your other patents? Or do I lose patent protections to this image if I only do a partial implementation of it?
Is it true that you have many many patents for inventions that use that image specifically to do otherwise ordinary things like opening it in a paint program?
I do not believe it is in my best interest to use your image AT ALL until I get satisfactory answers to these questions.
Thank you very much.
PS: software patents may be dealt a convincing death blow by the courts. If so, I may consider using some of the interesting ideas from your picture but with an eye towards a better implementation of it and in ways where my huge investment in existing artwork and themes won't go to waste.
Chips_B_Malroy
2009-07-13 23:56:11
"Face it - Microsoft has legally agreed not to sue over C#/CLI. The central reason for the existence of your blog has disappeared." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Really? Sounded more like "a verbal" promise, with so many ifs ands and buts, to be virtually worthless to anyone but maybe Suse. Certainly not legal, and if MS had wanted to make it legal, they could have just given a legal license in writing to say the FSF. Not hard at all to do is it? But MS did not do that did they? In fact, MS may have made things even more confusing.
While I am not totally against the Mono/Moonlight project, still I have to ask why? Why do we need it? Is Mono there so MS can spread Moonlight (Silverlight) with the help of Linux? This is the other half of online advertising, its not all about Google, MS wants to kill Adobe Flash as well. And what about Moonlight depending on Mono? Why would we want that? Lets see, we get an buggie inferior Moonlight, which presently at version 1, and they (Miguel) are trying to release a beta of version 2. But at the same time Silverlight 3.0 has already been released on Windows. Sounds to me that M$ only wants the commercials flash type ads on websites to run on Moonlight/Linux, and the almost no premium content stuff like Netflix, to run only on the newest Silverlight/Windows. Moonlight on Linux will always be full of bugs and behind the times that it will not run the good stuff. As such, there is no reason to support it by the average Linux user.
In fact, many of us Linux users, are here to get away from the problems of MS software. Mono is just a bad idea in general.
But still I would not be against Mono, if its was not on live cd's, if it was not in distro's repo's, and if the GPL license was revoked, and it had to use another license.
JohnD
2009-07-13 23:59:01