From About 2-3 Blog Posts Per Day to Not Even One Per Day (After Covering Up for 'Good' EPO Under António Campinos)
Dr. Roy Schestowitz
2022-11-22 15:07:02 UTC
Modified: 2022-11-22 15:07:02 UTC
If blogs don't cover what people care about and what needs to be said, writers and readers will go elsewhere
With just over a month left in the year:
Summary: While it's totally debatable whether the problem is IP Kat's deletion of comments critical of António Campinos (among other such factors after pressure from the EPO [1-7]) or blogs in general perishing, this blog certainly peaked when it covered EPO scandals (864 blog posts in 2015 and 879 in 2014 -- the highest ever in the blog's almost-20-year history)
If the Web gets polluted or flooded by slopfarms such as these, and Slashdot then sends traffic so these slopfarms (Slashdot probably doesn't do this intentionally), then real writers with real knowledge of GNU/Linux will lose the spark for publishing
Those of us who actually want to reform the industry and put users in control of their systems/devices will recognise that "Open Source" was selling a lie or got-co-opted by liars
The commercial exploitation of users won't stop until users exercise full control over their software or - more broadly - their computing (including data)
