Linux News is Microsoft
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2019-11-06 05:02:16 UTC
- Modified: 2019-11-06 05:02:16 UTC
Recent Techrights' Posts
- Michael “Monty” Widenius: It Started in 1983 With Richard Stallman (RMS)
- The other co-founder of MySQL is a bit notorious for confronting RMS rather viciously
- For the Second Time in a Few Weeks Microsoft Lunduke Makes False Accusations Against Senior Red Hat Staff to Incite a Despicable 'Troll Army'
- Nothing that Microsoft Lunduke claims of says can be trusted
- su lisa && rm -rf /home/ibm/power
- Novell was ruined by another person from IBM, Ronald Hovsepian
- A Record Demand at Microsoft: Demand to Cancel
- What we're witnessing is a very ungraceful destruction of XBox
- Richard Stallman is Going to Finland to Give a Talk Next Thursday
- A day later he speaks in Sweden
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- Links 02/10/2025: 'Open' 'AI' Resorting to Gimmicks and Fake Funding, Europe’s ‘Drone Wall’ Discussed
- Links for the day
- Links 02/10/2025: Brave Passes 100M Users Milestone, Kodak Selling Its Own Film Again
- Links for the day
- Microsoft is Losing Europe
- Hence all the "support" and "discount" offers that are limited to Europe
- The Free Software Foundation Starts Fund-raising for 40th Anniversary
- New pop-up 2-3 days ahead of the 40th anniversary event
- Systemd Breaks Networking in Debian and Microsoft Staff Rushes to Make Face-Saving Excuses in LWN
- Microsoft's bluca is already there in the comments, his Microsoft money pays for LWN to let him leave comments early
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, October 01, 2025
- IRC logs for Wednesday, October 01, 2025
- What the End of XBox Will Look Like: a Fiery Crash
- XBox is the next Skype. It won't last much longer. Expect many more layoffs.
- Gemini Links 02/10/2025: SMTP Pipelining and End of ROOPHLOCH 2025
- Links for the day
- Slopwatch: Plagiarism, Fake Articles, and FUD About Linux
- not a day goes by without Google News feeding FUD from slopfarms
- Gemini Links 01/10/2025: Chat Control and End of Life
- Links for the day
- Links 01/10/2025: Long Covid Risk Reiterated, "Bitcoin Queen" Caught
- Links for the day
- Links 01/10/2025: EA $55 Billion Deal is Debt and Slop "Raises Vishing Risks"
- Links for the day
- Bluewashing at Red Hat Means Redundancies
- The man who sold Red Hat to IBM meanwhile became a Microsoft Mono booster
- After Killing OpenSource.com, IBM ('Red Hat') and OSI Told Us OpenSource.net Would Replace It (But That Didn't Happen)
- Now it's time to move on, perhaps tarnishing the "Open Source" label some more (for whatever sponsor wants this)
- Linux is Not a Community Project, It's a Wall Street Product
- The core goal should be freedom
- Bad Actors Abusing the Free Software Community, Vandalising It Using Rogue Politics and Old Tactics
- Oil giants have long attempted to do this; now, the digital equivalent of Big Oil does this in technology
- Social Control Media Isn't the Future, The Federation or Fediverse Isn't Growing, People's Accounts Vanish for Good
- users' accounts will get deleted, not just become inactive
- IBM is Failing, This Helps Show Wall Street is Entirely Detached From Actual Commercial Performance
- IBM is unable to grow, it's just constantly shrinking
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, September 30, 2025
- IRC logs for Tuesday, September 30, 2025
- Clerical Aspects of Publishing and Development
- In Free software, the management aspects are considerably reduced
- Slopwatch: Fake Articles and Google News Promoting "Linux" Spam or Bot-Generated Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt (FUD)
- These slopfarms help misplace blame
- Third Wave of Microsoft Layoffs in September, This Time Many in Liverpool Affected
- Be ready for more waves of layoffs ahead of the so-called "results" in late October
- Gemini Links 30/09/2025: Motorcycling in Central Oregon, Protocol Styles and the Flag of Sark
- Links for the day
- Links 30/09/2025: Death Sentences, Internet Censorship, and Internet Shutdowns
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 30/09/2025: Social Control Media and ROOPHLOCH
- Links for the day
- Richard Stallman About to Give More Talks in Europe, Some Confirmed Already
- In Göteborg
- Links 30/09/2025: CERN in "Have I Been Pwned" and More Windows TCO Blunders
- Links for the day
- Microsoft Canonical is Selling Mass Surveillance and Back Doors as "Security for Ubuntu"
- If you are looking for a GNU/Linux distro to use, just remember that Microsoft has Ubuntu in the bag
- Justice for Wildlife
- animals cannot speak to humans who hate animals
- Cowboys Gonna Be Cowboys (on the Internet, They're Not a New Problem)
- Boys will be boys
- Cowboys of the "Left" and Cowboys of the "Right"
- Don't believe the lie that this is some "leftist" thing
- When Codes of Conduct Serve to Protect Criminals From Much-Deserved Scrutiny
- CoCs are typically unfit for purpose because enforcement lacks context and suitable understanding of the full background (the "full story")
- It Took the Open Source Initiative (OSI) 4+ Years to Address the 'Data Breach' or Data Protection Violation Reported to the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) in March 2025
- We may never know the dialogue or its nature
- Even Microsoft's Biggest Boosters (and Media Operatives) Are Turning Against Microsoft
- Expect many more layoffs before the fake "results" next month
- GNU Was Right 42+ Years Ago
- Since then the abusive, user-hostile technology has spread like mushrooms
- Old Isn't Always Inadequate
- How many gadgets manufactured today (in 2025) will still work in 2075?
- The Monkey Business of Rust People
- Compatibility won't matter
- Almost Half of the FSFE's Money (the Fake 'FSF', Misusing the Brand) Comes From Vodafone
- That money always comes with strings, even if they're invisible to most of us
- Microsoft Lunduke Spreads Deliberate Lies to Incite Online Mobs
- Has he lost his reading comprehension skills?
- Our 19th Birthday (in Just Over 5 Weeks From Now)
- We meanwhile have ongoing, solid plans to cover patent-related issues when the FSF turns 40
- British GNU/Linux Distro FydeOS Tops DistroWatch
- That seems like a decent site and decent effort to keep an eye on
- We'll Soon Have 75,000 GemText Pages
- avoid many perils of today's Web
- Google Used Free Software to Build a Monopoly. Now Google Kicks Free Software to the Curb
- The "G" in "Google" does not stand for GNU. It never did. It's just another greedy company.
- Gemini Links 30/09/2025: Retro Hardware, Federated Fragmentation, and Nex Server Written in C
- Links for the day
- 4 More Days Till "4 decades, 4 freedoms, 4 all users"
- We are now just 4 days away from the rare anniversary
- Two Months After Merging to Hide GitHub Losses Microsoft is Doing It Again (This Time Windows)
- Merging those two together is not a sign of strength but a tightening of budget
- Speculations About the Next Large Wave of IBM/Red Hat Layoffs
- the mass layoffs are likely to happen on week 3 or 4 in October
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Monday, September 29, 2025
- IRC logs for Monday, September 29, 2025
