Links 07/05/2008: Yahoo-Microsoft Post Mortem, GNU/Linux Ultra-Portables Overview
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2008-05-07 14:59:56 UTC
- Modified: 2008-05-07 14:59:56 UTC
- Is Microsoft Aura Fading?
- Will Microsoft Stream Office to Users?
- Microsoft's Google challenge remains
- Microsoft running out of options
- MS UK kills mystery 'Live to Code' site
- Ahead of the Bell: Microsoft-Yahoo fallout may help Google
- Failed Microhoo Deal Primes Google for Enterprise
- Without Yahoo, Microsoft remains alone on the Web
- Google Ends Microsoft’s Yahoo Search
- Yahoo Open Strategy could be its salvation
- Is Microsoft Weaker After Failed Takeover Bid?
- Spurned by Yahoo!, Microsoft may buy Asian firms -- analyst
- Bill Gates: Microsoft going 'independent' way
- Free and Open Source Software Guide for SMEs
- Do we need another CERT?
- Opinion: Malware vs. anti-malware, 20 years into the fray
- Malware outbreak blamed on file-swapped MP3s, MPEGs
- DHS grilled over uber secret cybersecurity plans
- Response Team Boosts Open Source Security
- Pondering when your next break-in will happen
- Hacker marketplace to help build 0day appliance
- Low-cost laptop group lands in Australia
- Meet The Hardy Heron: What's New in Ubuntu 8.04
- Sun unveils RIA toolset, new project for developers
- JavaFX: A Bright Future on Open Source-Based Mobile Devices?
- Sun's JavaFX to hoover-up user data
- Archbishop Desmond Tutu a fan of free music
- Counterclaims for extortion, conspiracy, trespass, consumer fraud & abuse, abuse of process upheld in Atlantic v. Boyer
- Switched On: The Linux ultraportable opportunity
- Everyone loves the Eee
- GNU/Linux: Source Code and Human Rights
- MSN Music Debacle Highlights EULA Dangers
- PS3 edges ahead of Xbox 360
- Review: Vista-intosh: VMware Gone Fusion
- Opening up Psystar's Open Computer
- Oracle: Eating its Own Open Source Food
- After Oracle, Former Sleepycat CEO Hunts For Next Gig
- What Makes Software High-Quality?
- Windows Vista: The 'New Coke' of the PC Age
- Mozilla Nearing the Finish Line for Firefox 3.0 - Over 14,000 improvements from Firefox 2
- OpenSolaris: Nice, But Not There Yet
- OpenSolaris 2008.05: Notes from the field
- Moving to Ubuntu
- Easiest Install EVER - Linux Ubuntu Desktop
- Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) on the Eee PC
- Top hackers kept on News Corp unit payroll 'for years'
- Linux Got Game: Warۤow 0.42
- Mass Effect DRM goes too far
- Red Hat signs partnership agreement with Cybercom
- Does a Linux OS perform better than a Windows ?
- Microsoft warns of IE7 lock-in with XP SP3
- Troll treasure: an in-depth look at Qt 4.4
- Get some AIR on Linux
- Harmony Universal Remotes Get Unofficial Linux Support
Recent Techrights' Posts
- Links 16/10/2025: Lies Euphemised as ‘Dueling Versions of Reality’ and Microsoft "Open" "Hey Hi" Resorts to Porn as No Business Model Was Found
- Links for the day
- The Local Staff Committee Munich (Representation of the EPO's Staff) Explains When Cluster of Pregnancies May Result in Reduced Pay
- "...even one week of part-time working is sufficient to reduce the salary you perceive during the entirety of your maternity leave."
- Another Black Eye for 'Secure Boot', Microsoft Media Tries to Blame "Linux"
- It enables Microsoft to remotely control computers, even computers that don't run Windows and never had any Microsoft software installed
- Slopwatch: UbuntuPIT, linuxsecurity.com, and Various Slopfarms in Google News Attacking "Linux"
- A new survey of the Web said that the majority of the Web is now slop (that's being said in the news this week)
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, October 15, 2025
- IRC logs for Wednesday, October 15, 2025
- Links 16/10/2025: Increased Use of Social Control Media Surveillance in US, French Rage Over Pensions
- Links for the day
- Links 15/10/2025: Qantas Airways Loses Control of Sensitive Data and Software Patents Are Being Thrown Out
- Links for the day
- Vista 10 is 'Dead', Here's Why People Should Move to GNU/Linux (or the BSDs)
- Today we try to make an outline of reasons move away from Windows to GNU/Linux
- Our Sites Continue to Improve
- LLM slop has had no noticeable impact on us
- Gemini Links 15/10/2025: Neovim, Helix Compared and Gemlog.blue Now Closed
- Links for the day
- Links 15/10/2025: Mass Layoffs at Amazon, OneDrive Spyware Revved Up, More 'Gen Z Protests'
- Links for the day
- The EPO's Staff Engagement Survey 2025 is Already Tainted by Intimidation by EPO Management (Trying to Influence Outcomes by Scaring Genuine, Honest Critics)
- "[W]e have received reports that, following the previous survey, teams with negative responses were reproached or questioned about their answers..."
- The DDoS Attacks by Microsoft's Scam Altman and Other Slop Charlatans and Frauds is Hurting the FSF, Delinking It From Copyleft Projects
- This impacts a lot more than access to the licences
- Microsoft Scanning Faces in Photos People Upload to Microsoft (Even Unconsciously), Slashdot Turns Report About It Into "Microsoft Sez" (Says)
- Or "let's repeat the lies from a PR person/Microsoft's publicist"
- [Teaser] Angel Aledo Lopez the Manipulator (Nepotism, Poll Rigging, and Other EPO Corruption)
- We'll discuss this later today or tomorrow, based on internal EPO material
- Attacks on Techrights Are Only Making Techrights Bigger and Even More Popular
- A week ago they offered to settle with us
- Epic Metaphor for End of IBM: "The IBM Demolition is Down to the Last Shards!"
- Nothing lasts forever
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, October 14, 2025
- IRC logs for Tuesday, October 14, 2025
- Proprietary and DRM Prisons Spiralling Down the Sinkhole? Not Just Yet.
- Let's hope that more people will flee to GNU/Linux
- The European Patent Office (EPO), the Second-Largest Institution in Europe, is Cracking Down on Recreational Activities
- Without AMICALE activities, and as staff already says it's pressured to work more for less, how can the EPO recruit bright people?
- Transparency: FSFE financial reports exclude speaker fees and expenses
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- Many Developers Have Many Political Views, They'll Never Agree on Everything
- It's an effort to divide and destroy, not build
- Gemini Links 14/10/2025: An Opportunity to Consider GNU/Linux and Another Simple IRC Client
- Links for the day
- Slopwatch: UbuntuPIT, LinuxSecurity, Google News, and the Serial Slopper Brian Fagioli
- Nothing of merit here, just more slop
- Links 14/10/2025: Lack of Trust in Slop and "Retirement Challenges"
- Links for the day
- EPO Staff Can Go Listen to Richard Stallman Next Week in Munich (Technical University of Munich, Rudolf-Diesel Hörsaal (MW2001) on Campus Garching at 18:00)
- "The talk is open to the public and attendance is free. Registration is not required."
- Rhonda D'Vine, Gerfried Fuchs, Pronouns & Debian pregnancy cluster
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- At IBM, Relocation Means Layoffs (Downsizing)
- Silent or 'invisible' layoffs?
- Central Staff Committee of the European Patent Office (EPO) Warns That EPO Management is Robbing or Manipulating Pension Funds Again
- Faking "growth" is just about as bad as forgery
- Probably a Lot Worse Than LLM Slop: GNOME Tying Itself to Divisive Politics, Even Where It's Clearly Not Relevant
- Something has gone terribly wrong in GNOME
- Links 14/10/2025: Microsoft OneDrive Scanning Faces in Photos (Without Asking First), "OpenAI Says It Will Move to Allow Smut"
- Links for the day
- They Generally Don't Like Scholars, as They're Less Compelled or Pressured to Repeat What Corporations and Oligarchs Say
- People who loathe scholars have an agenda in mind that, unlike that of reasonable people, revolves around controlling people
- Dystopian Trends in Technology Make Richard Stallman More Relevant Than Ever
- It's good to see him attracting vast audiences
- Belated New Article About Last Thursday's Lecture by Richard Stallman in Helsinki, Finland
- there are good reasons to pay with cash, not limited to privacy
- Attacking Richard Stallman Has Become 'Career Suicide'
- If you're going to viciously attack somebody, make sure your arguments are rock-solid
- Microsoft's Failing XBox Business Has Turned Games Into Funerals
- How does it feel to depend on Microsoft?
- Yesterday's "Distinguished Lecture" by Richard Stallman Possibly Attended by Close to 1,000 People
- The capacity of the place is about 900
- Slop Poisons Everything
- Imagine wanting to find what Torvalds has just said or what has just been released
- Taking Software Freedom 'Mainstream'
- interest in Software Freedom must have grown
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Monday, October 13, 2025
- IRC logs for Monday, October 13, 2025
- Gemini Links 14/10/2025: Ada Lovelace Day, Sony CLIE PEG-TG50 Review, Why to Avoid Network Solutions
- Links for the day
- Richard Stallman (RMS) Announced His Talk Less Than 24 Hours Before It Took Place and Still Filled Up the Auditorium at Sapienza Università di Roma
- Photos from yesterday evening [...] It looks like it was a very successful event
Comments
Challenger
2008-05-07 17:48:08
Software life cycle :
10% - Tipping point - (hardcore techies) 30% - Rapid growth - (IT people) 50% - Consumer, User level 80% - Domination
What we are seeing is that Linux has crossed the tipping point.
Next level it has to scale it to the common tech people. It will take a few more years. This is in progress...
Linux has a long way to go...
How long till Linux desktop nirvana ?
:D