Links 1/02/2008: Microsoft+Yahoo, Linux, Ogg, Miro, and Open-source
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2008-02-01 14:57:50 UTC
- Modified: 2008-02-01 14:57:50 UTC
Recent Techrights' Posts
- Keeping Linux Reliable
- If Linux becomes a lot more reliable in the future, it'll be an "hey hi" miracle. If Linux becomes a lot less reliable in the future, we'll know why and who is responsible for it.
- Cyber Show on the Fallacy of Salary/Ego as a Function of Wisdom in the Era of Pyramid Schemes (Cheating People Using Buzzwords and Complicit Media)
- "the remuneration fallacy and the role of reluctance as a negative feedback force."
- EPO's Local Staff Committee Munich Organises General Assembly Next Week, the Goal is to Oust the Corrupt President and Derail His Unlawful Agenda
- They're aiming to show Campinos the door
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- Net Gain of 50 Gemini Capsules in Just One Month
- a big jump in just one month
- 9/11 Was a National Event, Not an International Event
- They insist that back doors will "save lives"
- Very Sloppy PR From a Dying IBM, Company in Disarray and in Need of Distractions
- IBM could really use distractions right now
- What a Price-Fixing Cartel Can Look Like
- If your prices increase five-fold or ten-fold and so do your revenues/income, what does that tell us?
- SLAPP Censorship - Part 178 Out of 200: Explaining to Your American Clients That Spending 130,000+ United States Dollars on a Single Hearing in Another Continent Means the UK's National Archives Will Retain in Perpetuity What Your Spouse or Girlfriend Said
- Balabhadra (Alex) Graveley should ask Garrett how much money he has lost so far
- Over at Tux Machines...
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- IRC Proceedings: Thursday, September 10, 2026
- IRC logs for Thursday, September 10, 2026
- Latest IBM Gossip is, Over 25,000 People to be PIPed (by Year's End)
- That figure, 10%, is different from 15% (what we saw a lot). 10% is over 25,000 staff.
- Solidarity at EPO
- "Many colleagues have made personal and professional sacrifices by participating in the ongoing strike and work-to-rule action"
- Gemini Links 11/09/2026: Culture Stuck, Robot Symphony, and Back to Geminispace
- Links for the day
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- Links for the day
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- Rust is not and has never been about security
- Gemini Links 10/09/2026: "I Don’t Want to Interact With Stochastic Parrots" and "ROOPHLOCH 2026!"
- Links for the day
- What the British School Closure (BSN Senior School Leidschenveen) Means to EPO Staff
- The only European thing about the EPO is the staff
- Standing in Solidarity With Matt Mullenweg
- I don't trust the people and companies that want Mullenweg out. Neither should you.
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- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
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- IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, September 09, 2026
- IRC logs for Wednesday, September 09, 2026
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- Some people imagine the CEO will also "retire" very soon (and "ahead of time")
- Gemini Links 09/09/2026: Mechanical Cameras, "Super App", and Prusa Issues
- Links for the day
- SLAPP Censorship - Part 177 Out of 200: Manosphere Without Financial Transparency
- It has moreover replaced a female worker with a male
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- Join them. Fight the good fight.
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- Don't make the mistake or the assumption that merely 'dabbling in' or 'experimenting with' LLMs can be forgivable as it is a trust destroyer
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- Links for the day
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- Links for the day
- Plagiarism is Hardly a New Problem, It Predates Mainstream Media Getting Paid to Whitewash It as "Training" or "Hey Hi", Then Conflate Plagiarism With "Intelligence" or Deferred "Value"
- "Quantum" isn't new either; it's a 'circle-jerk' for companies without direction, only hype
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- Links for the day
- Unsafe at Any Speed, "Modern" Appliances
- Appliances have gotten worse
- SLAPP Censorship - Part 176 Out of 200: The Sex-Obsessed Non-Experts
- We heard some sexual stories
- European Patent Office (EPO): No Transparency and No Paper Trail
- The incompetence is that of the management, i.e. sheer incompetence of people who never examined a patent in their entire lifetime
- Gemini Links 09/09/2026: Going Out, Smartphone Addiction, Mapping the Geminispace
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- Over at Tux Machines...
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- IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, September 08, 2026
- IRC logs for Tuesday, September 08, 2026
Comments
Victor Soliz
2008-02-01 15:06:15
- Replace Java games with Silvernightmare games. - Stop Linux distribution or replace it with ballnux. - Merge yahoo mail and hotmail. :/ , geocities with that MS stuff. - etc, etc ,etc
I really don't want my yahoo games gone...
Roy Schestowitz
2008-02-01 15:12:41
Yes, just a minute ago I mentioned this in a comment. Yahoo has already been quite Linux-hostile... even in terms of supporting non-IE browsers.
At this stage, given the smears Microsoft has used (almost successfully) in attempt to derail DoubleClick-Google, I truly hope that the EC is watching. It would harm customer tremendously. the EC is already concerned about Silverlight. It's an issue more severe than the corruptions associated with OOXML and the BRM in Geneva because Silverlight penetrates from the Web, not via SharePoint/E-mails from colleagues.
Brother Roy
2008-03-15 05:53:26
Roy Schestowitz
2008-03-16 06:56:36
One thing worth exploring is the list of people and companies Microsoft uses to approach FOSS projects and bend them to Microsoft's benefit. Developers need to be warned and become aware of those with hidden motives.
"I know Microsoft, and I know my industry. I thoroughly comprehend how Microsoft’s products, agendas, and conduct have shaped and defined computing as we know it today. I have friends and colleagues who work at Microsoft, and I have others who work with its current partners, its former partners, and its direct competitors... Microsoft’s conduct as a corporation and a manufacturer of computing products, is predicated upon an internal policy of deception, which includes deceiving customers, deceiving competitors, deceiving partners, deceiving its own vendors, and at some level, deceiving its own staff."
--Scott M. Fulton's letter to the DoJ