The EFF Has Been Subsumed by Microsoft
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2022-10-29 08:01:19 UTC
- Modified: 2022-10-29 08:01:19 UTC
Recent Techrights' Posts
- Mass Layoffs at IBM Today, Just Like Prominent Rumours Said Upfront
- past couple of hours
- IBM is Acting No Better Than Patent Trolls, Preying on Smaller Companies by Suing Them With Software Patents
- No Red Hat employee should tolerate this aggression by the employer
- Something Has Gone Very Wrong at iTWire
- "iTWire has descended into marketing spam"
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- [Meme] Think. Positive. Saturate the Media.
- IBM: Layoffs? What layoffs?
- The Kubecost Acquisition Does Not Show IBM is Rich, It Shows It Wants to Distract From Mass Layoffs Happening This Week (Thousands Laid Off in the Dark)
- So-called "news deserts" have become a national and international phenomenon (not local/regional)
- IBM Has Been Lobbying for Software Patents, It's Not the Free Software Community's Ally
- The ancient company has been lobbying for these patents for decades already
- Over Half a Day Later the Media Still Doesn't Cover Thousands of Layoffs at IBM
- Not even a single news site bothered to investigate and report this? Not even one?
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, September 17, 2024
- IRC logs for Tuesday, September 17, 2024
- IBM Befriends and Exploits the Biggest Enemy of Software Freedom (Software Patents)
- Software Patents and IBM in Today's News
- Many Workers Quietly Leave Microsoft, the Company is Running Out of Money (Too Much Debt and Now Massive Buybacks to Keep the Shares From Collapsing While Hiding Humongous Losses)
- I've heard of people who just decided to quit Microsoft. They could not handle the anxiety.
- Links 17/09/2024: Volkswagen Layoffs May Exceed 15,000, Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Arrested
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 17/09/2024: Re-framing of Priorities and Journalists
- Links for the day
- The Linux Foundation is Associating Linux With Scams and With Scam Sites Right Now (Like the Wife of Jim Zemlin Did)
- they profit from the sellouts
- Google's YouTube Already Blocking People Who Block Ads
- YouTube feels like it's dying
- Links 17/09/2024: More on Microsoft Cuts and XBox Backward Compatibility Issues
- Links for the day
- The Hallmark of a Dying Company Running Low on Money (But Still Trying to Hide That)
- Microsoft should look into selling red markers
- UEFI 'Secure' Boot Has Put Security at Risk, Suggests New Report
- We're vindicated once again
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Monday, September 16, 2024
- IRC logs for Monday, September 16, 2024
- Links 17/09/2024: China Sanctions and Breadth of Latest Microsoft Layoffs Elaborated Upon
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 17/09/2024: Small Improvements in Carbon Capture and Pseudo-Productivity In Java
- Links for the day
- 'Open'AI Looks Like a Company Headed Towards Bankruptcy, Not IPO, Losses Grew Almost Tenfold in a Year (Yes, it's Just a Bubble Facilitated by Artificial Hype)
- This isn't going to end well, especially not for Microsoft
- Apple is Canceling Products, Services, Even Lays Off Staff in Large Numbers Every Few Months
- Apple cancelling some more things
- Later on Elon Musk Wonders Why Large Nations Block His Pet 'Social Control Media' (Incitement/Radicalisation) Platform...
- This isn't a question of "censorship" because there's a call to kill
- Microsoft: Layoffs Are Growth
- Orwell would have loved this newspeak
- Links 16/09/2024: Verizon Layoffs, 'Tram Driver Olympics', and Anniversary of Mahsa Amini's Death
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 16/09/2024: ROOPHLOCH and MyGemini.Space
- Links for the day
- Invidious Instances Explain What Google/YouTube (Alphabet/Pentagon) Did To Them This Past Week
- They're unambiguous about this
- Dr. Richard M. Stallman (RMS) on How to Make People Care About Free Software and Why Prohibiting Proprietary Software Would Not Work
- "maybe a similar general approach could work with non-Free software as a way of discouraging it from being a successful business."
- Please Quit Uploading Event Talks (Especially of Free Software) to YouTube
- This is enshittification
- Links 16/09/2024: Shrinking Economy, Climate Issues, Soaring Energy Costs
- Links for the day
- 'Former' Microsofter Jason Perlow Left Linux Foundation
- The "communication" people from the Linux Foundation are basically scammers
- MyGem Launched to Make Adoption of Gemini Protocol (With Gemini Hosting) a Lot Easier
- a new week and also a new capsule
- Disregard for History is Disregard for (Computer) Science
- They're killing the real entrepreneurs and innovators
- Dr. Richard M. Stallman (RMS) on His Hobbies and Health
- Answering a question from the audience in Germany
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Sunday, September 15, 2024
- IRC logs for Sunday, September 15, 2024
- Gemini Links 16/09/2024: billsmugs.com Becomes rainywhile.net, Zaurus on Internet
- Links for the day