Site Maintenance Ongoing

Dr. Roy Schestowitz

2019-06-30 09:31:32 UTC
Modified: 2019-06-30 09:31:32 UTC

Just writing endlessly isn't the goal. Maintenance is required too.

Maintenance

Summary: Behind the scenes -- so to speak -- Techrights is improving and growing; we should soon be able to produce more per day

TWO months ago we said we would spend a lot of effort organising the site and tidying things up (this was last said 5 weeks ago). Almost 26,000 blog posts later (and lots of documents, Wiki pages, media files etc.) we realise that old material isn't easy to find. A lot of it is still relevant. We've covered software patents in Europe for many years and software patents in the US since 2006, i.e. 8 years before Alice and long before 35 U.S.C. €§ 101. The history of this battle is long and complicated. I literally spent (but not wasted) my whole adult life fighting these things. I'm driven sorely by ideology -- the belief that these patents pose an existential risk to software development as we know it.

Today we add the following large Wiki pages, which are in effect index pages. For software:

As we said many times before, expect IBM's patent policy to be imposed on Red Hat. It won't be pretty.

For patents:

For Linux:

Other:

With help from iophk we've also made the following list of sites from which we often extract and find GNU/Linux news picks.

We've been making a lot of changes at the back end lately. They're not visible to users/readers, but they make us a lot more efficient and hopefully effective too. These changes are associated with backup, monitoring (of system events), security, efficiency, availability, workflow, and reach. Our IRC channels are also in a very healthy state and now involve more people than ever. We might, in the near future, cover politics a little less and use the spare time to post more articles per day. We wish to take this site to the next level, so to speak. ⬆

Recent Techrights' Posts

How to Identify Demonisation or Dehumanisation Tactics Against Interesting Figures or Luminaries in Free Software: Rather than in general or generally in technology
We Should Learn From Bulgaria: Why can't European companies and government recognise and react to a threat (when they see one)?
Canonical: Ubuntu is GAFAM (US), We're Resellers of American Proprietary Software: They want people to pay for a licence
Links 03/02/2026: "Distraction is a Sin" and Fake "Encryption" (Surveillance With Good Marketing): Links for the day
IBM Falls by Over 10%: a recipe for disasters like accounting fraud
Links 03/02/2026: Windows Copies GNU/Linux, Windows TCO Shown Again: Links for the day
Gemini Links 03/02/2026: Alhena Turns One, Slop Rejected, and Max Roy Carrouges Recalled: Links for the day
Dr. Andy Farnell on Why and How European Authorities Can Adopt Free Software, Parenting in the Age of Digital Abundance: Will Europe use technology that Europe controls (not the hegemon), for a change?
Seems Like IBM Trolls Use Chatbots to Vandalise Platform That Discusses IBM's Secret Layoffs, Forever Layoffs: Not for the first time either
You Know Your Company is Dead or Basically a Pyramid Scheme When Jim Cramer Keeps Promoting Its Stock: How much does IBM pay for "puff pieces" or "fluff" about QC?
Red Hat (Under IBM) Works for Microsoft (Proprietary Software) and Slop: Yesterday Red Hat's official site, redhat.com, published exactly 5 new blog posts
IBM is Dying (More Layoffs), Red Hat Will Continue to Suffer From the Acquisition: Financial engineering
Colombia Adopting GNU/Linux Even Faster (at Microsoft's and Apple's Expense): Do politics play any role in this?
An Effort to Tackle Slavery in 'Open Source' Clothing: "a civil rights lawsuit to examine the concerns of censored developers in the free, open source software ecosystem"
$15 billion lawsuit: Ubuntu, Google & Debian crowdfunding campaign launch: Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Delusion - Part II - Why We Need to Expose the SRA to More Daylight, Public Scrutiny: SRA is neither effective nor regulated
400-Page US Federal Court Against Abuses by Google, Microsoft and Front Groups That Abuse Volunteers for American Corporations: There are 386 pages in total (in the US claim)
Corporate Influence Never Impacted Us: There's no reason to assume we'll ever "sell out"
Growth of GNU/Linux in Cuba: Right now a lot of the world drafts or already implements a GAFAM exit plan
A Day After EPO Strikes an Escalation to Heads of Delegations to the Administrative Council: They rely on the European media playing along, helping them to hide major blunders, even crimes
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Monday, February 02, 2026: IRC logs for Monday, February 02, 2026
Gemini Links 03/02/2026: Stargazing, Development Boards, and Tcl/Tk Slop: Links for the day
Microsoft Lost 20% of Its Money in the Past 6 Months: Microsoft is hiding what's really happening while mocking critics
Great News, IBM 'Gained' Almost 10% in "Goodwill" Value After Firing Tens of Thousands in 2025: "goodwill" will be inflated despite IBM staff getting sick of IBM
Americans Move to GNU/Linux: some of the biggest American populations
I Still Like Drawing and Various Other Arts (They Help My Activism and Journalism), Slop is an Enemy of Creative People: Recognise that slop isn't intelligence; it's a generational excuse for plagiarism and privatisation of not only the Commons but also proprietary knowledge (without authorisation)
Carmen-Lisandrette Maris (Mission:Libre) Explains to Adolescents and Young Adults How Free Software Improves Privacy: Based on what we've seen and read, Mission:Libre has a solid grasp of Software Freedom
Chatbots Didn't Do Any Good for Microsoft: Google "AI" = search + copypasta
Links 02/02/2026: Cultural Cleansing by China and 'Living Behind Firewalls" in Iran: Links for the day
GNU/Linux Measured at More Than 4% in Russia: growing adoption of GNU/Linux in Russia
Gemini Links 02/02/2026: Stages of Age, Workflows, and Counting Capsules: Links for the day
Oracle's Debt Rose Over 20 Billion Dollars in Just 3 Months: Is "hey hi" becoming a synonym for debt?
Oligarchs' 'Speech Zones' Are Not the "Public Square": The apologists of social control media, including press that got "addicted" to such fake "media", are helping dictators and oligarchs grab the public attention away from the real press
IBM Misleads and Gaslights Investors With Slop Sold as "AI" (the Business is Waning, Mass Layoffs Continue): People who do this are dishonest. They should not be put in charge.
Links 02/02/2026: 'Melania' a Horror Movie "Will They Inherit Our Blogs?": Links for the day
Doing More Detailed Series (Long-Form Works): Long readings or book-like reading binges are only possible when parts are suitably labeled (name and numbers) if not interlinked
Mobbing at the European Patent Office (EPO) - Part II - Racism, Cocaine Use and White-Collar Corruption: When you hire people illegally, to work for cocaine users and keep quite about the cocaine use, what will be the impact on the reputation of an institution?
A Can of WORMS - Part II - Darkening the Name of RMS, Associating It With Crime: Beware projection tactics
Submit Your Suggestions for EU's Embrace of Software Freedom by Tomorrow: Time to leave GAFAM (US) hegemony behind
Slopless Weekend: This is not sustainable
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Sunday, February 01, 2026: IRC logs for Sunday, February 01, 2026
Gemini Links 01/02/2026: Fossil Heating Installations and Some FOSDEM Coverage: Links for the day
The State of Memory Leaks in GNU/Linux: The issue won't be solved by adding more memory
Links 01/02/2026: Nvidia's Jensen Talks Down Microsoft 'Open' 'Hey Hi' and Britain's Starmer Makes Friends With China, Japan: Links for the day
Why Microsoft Accenture Has So Many Layoffs in Recent Years: The debt of Accenture doubled a year ago
Links 01/02/2026: Public TV Gutted by Cheeto, Billionaires Fund a Cheeto Propaganda Movie in 'Documentary' Clothing: Links for the day
The New Site ("New Techrights", SSG Since 2023) Exceeds the Old Site in Requests: The "New Techrights" gets about twice as many requests as the "old" (WordPress) "Techrights", the site of 2006-2023
20 Years Ago: Some time soon all this slop frenzy will become like yesterday's "blockchain" or "metaverse"
Gemini Links 01/02/2026: Zdzisław Beksiński and Disconnected Git Workflow: Links for the day
Talks About Nadella's Microsoft Exit After Chatter About Tim Crook Leaving Apple (Years Ahead of Retirement Age): Mass layoffs and record debt do not represent a company's health.
We Still Cover the Same Problems We Spoke of 20 Years Ago: We're not easily seduced by "novelty" (new things), we try to judge them critically
Patents Standing in the Way: They also cause environmental harm
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Saturday, January 31, 2026: IRC logs for Saturday, January 31, 2026
IBM, a Microsoft Company: Microsoft and IBM as a pair go a long way back