Why We Got Told by Insiders That Almost Everyone at EPO Reads Techrights and Many at IBM Track IBM RAs Via Techrights
In a nutshell, we cover topics almost no other site dares touch
Since the very beginning (2006), when dealing mostly with Novell and with software patents, we got told that covering what could not be found elsewhere was important. SUSE and Novell people followed us closely. Some sent us tips (critical and suppressed information).
Many years later we covered the EPO very routinely and insiders indicated that whatever we published had a big role in (or impact on) EPO policy.
More recently, pissed-off (not necessarily laid-off) IBM workers said that many colleagues were reading us. That means Red Hat staff too.
They don't always agree with us, but they do find here information that cannot be found elsewhere.
On the Web, there's plenty of trash like LLM slop, but given tools like RSS readers one can separate the wheat from the chaff.
For a positive contribution on the Web (or to society) people must dig deep and process, then produce new information or collated summaries thereof. █