Links 09/05/2008: GPL wins in court Again, 100% Free Software PC Finally Available
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2008-05-09 08:35:09 UTC
- Modified: 2008-05-09 08:35:09 UTC
- Reliability Study Serves Up Good News For Linux Users
- Digium: Doubling Annual Sales with Open Source VoIP
- KVM and Xen cofounders engage in war of words
- JVM now compiles with Sun Studio on Linux
- Microsoft intensifies anti-piracy measures
- TorrentSpy Ordered to Pay $110 Million in Damages to MPAA
- Here’s my new Business Model: Assume my Customer is a Thief
- Three afterthoughts: OpenSolaris, XP SP3, taxing MP3 players
- Rich Green, viceprezident Sunu o open source
- Do we need to protect open source from the cloud?
- Tomorrow: Court hearing in Welte vs. Skype GPL case
- The GPL Wins Again - Welte vs. Skype Technologies SA (Germany)
- 199 Euro laptop with OpenOffice.org pre-installed
- Word Users, Prepare For Critical Update
- India and Belgium decry Chinese cyber attacks
- I Was A Teenage Bot Master
- India set to counter Chinese net attacks
- Fighting the agents of organized cybercrime
- Scary security numbers from Trend Micro
- LAC Now Shipping gNewSense 2.0 Systems (1 May 2008)
- Unixfication II
- Freenet: An Open Source, Anonymous Voice for Anyone
- Google Grilled on Human Rights
- Google addresses antitrust issue on Yahoo ad deal
- Next up: A Microsoft-Google antitrust fight?
- Red Hat Recognises Standout Partners at EMEA Partner Summit
- Red Hat Continues Middleware Industry Momentum
- VIA Gives 16,434 Lines Of OSS Code
- 5/7/08 - Parted Magic 2.2.
- Firebird 2.1: Released 18-Apr-2008
- GNU Guile 1.8.5 released
- San Mateo County levies a serious punishment for traffic violations: Internet Explorer
- SaaS, Open Source and the Migration of Burden
- Thoughts on JavaOne 2008 (mostly good, but lots of confusing messages from Sun)
- Getting business out of social connections
- Top Ten Reasons for a Linux Laptop
- Millionaires, Billionaires, and Open Source
Recent Techrights' Posts
- IBM is "Taking the PIP" (Piss), People 'Retire' 'Voluntarily' to "Focus on Family"
- IBM has a billion bucks for 'the butcher', but not a million dollars for critical projects and initiatives in Free software
- It Should be Uncontroversial to Say That Social Control Media is a Weapon
- Democracy is not compatible with the likes of Kapo-Berg and MElon controlling public discourse of billions
- Debian: Plagiarism OK, Just be "Responsible" About It
- The result isn't the worst, but it's not good either
- Don't Let Them Kill Activism
- Are the oligarchs shutting the lid on activism and whistleblowers?
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- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Saturday, August 29, 2026
- IRC logs for Saturday, August 29, 2026
- Links 29/08/2026: Stop the Hate, Goldfish Myths, and xmpp.nz
- Links for the day
- Links 29/08/2026: Wave of Social Control Media Bans, Suno Data Breach Class Actions
- Links for the day
- Links 29/08/2026: Microsoft GitHub Outage (Again), "Displaying Ads Directly on Your Monitor", and "Election Deniers Could Soon Control Elections"
- Links for the day
- Misuse of Bots (Now Sold as "Agents", "Hey Hi", "Automation", and "Efficiency")
- They even try to rebrand robotics as "hey hi" and try to sell slop as "work"
- SLAPP Censorship - Part 165 Out of 200: Two Years Since My Wife and I Sued
- In early September 2024 we hit back
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Friday, August 28, 2026
- IRC logs for Friday, August 28, 2026
- Gemini Links 29/08/2026: Death Notice, Systems Biology, and Gopher
- Links for the day
- Links 28/08/2026: Chatbot Pushers Admit They're Used Heavily for Social Engineering Scams, Strong Backlash Against "Smart Glasses" (CCTV on Legs)
- Links for the day
- Michael Catanzaro's Latest Blog Post Affirms Rumours of Red Hat Changes and RAs/PIPs at IBM
- reading between the lines, IBM is "spitting out" Red Hat staff
- If Linux Was Written in Rust, 80% or More of Linux Developers Would Not Understand It (Same If It's Composed by LLM Slop)
- The licence (GPL) is not enough when there are ways to bypass it
- Gemini Links 28/08/2026: Absurd Tomodachi Summer, Screen Piggery, and Jugulans 1.0.3 Released
- Links for the day
- Links 28/08/2026: "UK Power Grid Has a Phantom Data Center Problem" and "Growth at All Costs is Cancer"
- Links for the day
- SLAPP Censorship - Part 164 Out of 200: Patent Troll SLAPPs, Defamation Trolls, and Stranglers From America
- You start to wonder if the core issue is insecurity
- Rumours of More PIPs and Layoffs at Confluent Just Months After IBM Bought It
- It is meanwhile apparent IBM will have mass layoffs next week (September)
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Thursday, August 27, 2026
- IRC logs for Thursday, August 27, 2026
- After Many Waves of PIPs (Silent Layoffs) IBM Makes Non-Silent Layoffs, Effective Next Week (September)
- What we heard is turning out to be true
