On the left: Last week's Tux Machines 15^th birthday party

Summary: Later this year this site turns thirteen; with nearly 5 million hits in a week we're still seeing evidence of this site's importance

HAVING been organising the site over the past couple of months, we now have 5 new wiki pages for:

1. Andrei Iancu from the USPTO
2. PTAB, which Iancu suppresses
3. Christoph Ernst from the EPO
4. UKIPO, which has gotten closer to the EPO and has just been added to this list of entities that pose a threat to software freedom
5. Juve, which used to cover EPO scandals and nowadays does borderline puff pieces

A reader who wrote code to generate the above pages has suggested that we also improve archiving of the site (we're looking into it) as we approach 26,000 blog posts (incidentally, it was yesterday that we published photos from Tux Machines' 15^th birthday party, its first-ever party).

"We have meanwhile noticed a significant increase in traffic."Another reader and longtime contributor suggested that instead of covering so much political news items in our daily links we should return to covering Microsoft and GNU/Linux matters, such as Jim Zemlin's Linux Foundation affairs. We have meanwhile noticed a significant increase in traffic. We delete all logs (permanently) after 4 weeks, but looking at the past 6.5 days' traffic, it's not far from 5 million hits.

[root@techrights httpd]# cat techrights.org-access_log-20190630 | wc 
4298542 83995834 826134102

This suggests that what we write is interesting and important to readers, so we shall carry on with more of the same. ⬆