Summary: It seems fair to say that the incredible deficit or lack of justice at the EPO poses a threat not only to justice in Europe and the EU, even well outside the area of patents. They are normalising lawlessness and kangaroo courts, behind closed doors and with diplomatic immunity too.
Summary: An old but relevant quote regarding software patents in Europe now that there’s an EPO strike (today)
“I consider GitHub useless for these kinds of things. It’s fine for hosting, but the pull requests and the online commit editing, are just pure garbage.” –Linus Torvalds, founder of the Git project
Summary: Git is not GitHub; GitHub is a proprietary ‘extension’ (as in E.E.E.) of Git and doing development on GitHub is working for Microsoft’s monopoly
Summary: Humour? Maybe. But those are all genuine, authentic quotes from inside Microsoft’s leadership (speaking of “Linux” as though it’s a cockroach and Windows a drug).
“Privacy protects us from abuses by those in power, even if we’re doing nothing wrong at the time of surveillance.”
Summary: Privacy was the subject of today's feature article; let’s not forget how essential a concept it is to guard against encroachments, no matter the given excuses
Ruthlessness is not brilliance
!['I see little commercial potential for the internet for the next 10 years,' 1994 and '[E-mail] spam will be a thing of the past in two years' time,' 2004](http://techrights.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/gates-genius.jpg)
Summary: Presenting the ‘genius’ (college dropout, but that does not matter when the yardstick of wisdom is wealth alone), with his own predictions overlaid on top of his photo from the show of Bloomberg (another ‘genius’ whose supposed brilliance is measured using money alone)
Summary: Richard Stallman spoke about an important aspect of censorship more than 2 decades ago (before “Open Source” even existed); it was published in Datamation (“Censoring My Software”) 23 years before a campaign of defamation on the Internet was used to remove him from MIT and FSF (censoring or ‘canceling’ Stallman himself)
Note: I used to be a writer at Datamation, but I stopped after they had been removing parts of my articles (especially those critical of Microsoft, which was a sponsor). I’ve since then written only in Techrights.
Summary: Society oughtn’t be alarmed by people who say unusual things; it should be wary and sceptical of those corporations ever so eager to silence such people
Dr. Roy Schestowitz
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