Summary: To better cope with emergent threats and trends we're modifying the structure of Daily Links, interrupting a pattern that is over a decade old

Shuffling of the categories in Daily Links isn't just inevitable. It's very much necessary. And why? Because the market and the society change over time. Brands change, threats change, and even topics of priority come and go. Over the past week or two many of the search results (for news) about "Linux" were negative articles portraying GNU/Linux as a major security threat. That's owing to a bunch of trolls and liars, notably those in the CBS tabloids and provocation sites. When it comes to search results (for news) about "open source" it's mostly openwashing, i.e. proprietary software and proprietary services disguised as "open" for marketing purposes. We're therefore restructuring or refactoring Daily Links. Category-wise, we considered headings such as:

• Security
• Proprietary
• FUD/Fear-Mongering/Dramatisation
• Linux Foundation
• Pseudo-Open Source
• Openwashing
• Confidentiality
• Privacy/Surveillance
• Integrity/Availability

Many of the above are connected in various ways (one way or another), so we've been discussing (details in the IRC channels/logs) how to better organise news to catalogue and occasionally tackle falsehoods.

One hierarchal proposition was as follows:

Integrity/Availability
	Proprietary
		Pseudo-Open Source
			Openwashing
			Privatisation/Privateering
				Linux Foundation
			Entrapment (Microsoft/GitHub)
	Security
		FUD/Fear-Mongering/Dramatisation
		Privacy/Surveillance
			Confidentiality





FSF
	FSFE
	GNU Projects
	Licensing/Legal





Devices/Embedded
	Open Hardware/Modding





Programming/Development
	Perl
	Python
	Bash

This is still work in progress and it will likely change/evolve over time. ⬆