Summary: Some quick new facts about the TomTom-Microsoft settlement
IT MAY BE TRUE that the TomTom case is just a history lesson despite OIN's response, but a source has just told us privately that "TomTom paid less the half a million EUR to Microsoft because otherwise they have to file it at the Dutch Tax authorities."
Here is a video from last month. It's about patents and Free software, but we could not produce an Ogg version. ⬆
Nighttimes in Africa are times when GNU/Linux usage on desktop/laptop devices typically surges, based on Clownflare [...] It changes in favour of GNU/Linux
Bluesky is a private company (unlike Bluesky Digital Assets Corp. in Toronto, that one runs a pyramid scheme!), so it's hard to know for sure just how much money it is losing
Setting up several reliable copies of the data, plus several off-site backups (this data is nowhere as sensitive as medical data), should only cost a few grand
