Summary: Tim, Gordon, and Roy catch up with GNU/Linux vs Microsoft (or vice versa) news and then drift further away into some other topics
TONIGHT'S scheduled-not-so-planned-but-spontaneous show covered mostly GNU/Linux-related issues like Microsoft sponsorship of Linux and FOSS events, the situation at Nokia, Microsoft MVPs, Windows versus GNU/Linux at work, Debian's new release, Linux Mint, uniformity across GNU/Linux environments, filesharing-based business models, Anonymous, and a few more issues. Corresponding articles will be linked very shortly in OpenBytes' show notes. (Update: they're up now)
Maybe this is very innocent, but they seem to have taken a solid, stable program from a high-profile Frenchman and looked for ways to marry it with GitHub, i.e. Microsoft/NSA
People leak a lot of material to Techrights because they know, based on the track record, that the sources will be protected and whatever gets published will stay online, in full, no matter how stubborn an effort (even lawsuits and blackmail) will be sent its way
Based on last month's leak, some very extensive layoffs are now imminent [...] Perhaps we can expect a lot of noise, some of it spewed out by bots, to distract from or belittle the impending mass layoffs
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