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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 19, 2025

Early spring plants budding

THIS month we'll continue to cover EPO corruption. It has hardly shown signs of slowing down. Benoît Battistelli and António Campinos have managed to turn Europe's second-largest institution into a place where corruption has basically become the norm (and the media helps normalise this). Internal publications like this new one from within IBM help raise awareness, but the corporate media tries to suppress, hide, or distract from such publications. Aside from IBM and Microsoft layoffs being covered (lots of Microsoft layoffs so far this year!) we plan to continue the slop-hunting expedition (identifying and reporting Serial Sloppers). We're glad to say that after the latest removal of a fake article by Brian Fagioli (this happened about 3 days ago) there has been only webspam, not LLM slop about "Linux" (the editor of the site seem to have realised what happened). Ideally there should be no LLM slop about "Linux" at all. This way people can find and read news written, not spewed out (with lots of errors) by chatbots.

This month we expect things to be mostly uneventful, which means plenty of time to research and publish. The SLAPP by Microsofters is merely a "side show" that proves their desperation. They've tried hard to censor us since last week (of course it failed) and it seems like this is the page which makes their blood boil. It's about GPL violations (the FSF should know). We find it curious that Microsoft's principal operative inside the OSI - the one who lobbies for GPL violations (by LLMs) - has been totally quiet for 4 weeks already (he promoted and openwashed LLM slop). Did something happen? Notice how Microsoft and its operative link themselves directly to OSI. It's like the OSI is now a branch of Microsoft. Half of the OSI's money (or oven more than half) comes from Microsoft's ClearlyDefined.

ClearlyDefined 2024 in review – milestones, growth and community impact

It seems like we've made positive impact because this Microsoft mole inside the OSI (his salary comes from Microsoft) has been quiet; they typically become vocal only temporarily when we call them out on it. It's not to be ignored; we're glad to be noticed.

One thing we'd like to do more of is Software Freedom advocacy. Many people are unhappy right now with the direction GAFAM and MElon have taken; they seek alternatives. Let's steer them towards Free/libre software. In Free University of Bozen-Bolzano Richard Stallman will speak about this in 5 days.

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