OSI Blog Composed by Microsofters on Microsoft's Payroll, Promoting Proprietary GitHub Using Microsoft's Terminology

Dr. Roy Schestowitz

2023-04-05 11:24:45 UTC
Modified: 2023-04-05 11:33:59 UTC

Sponsored by Microsoft to occupy the OSI, serving and pushing Microsoft agenda, lobbying for proprietary software (under the guise of "community"!) and even painting plagiarism/GPL violations as benign "AI"

Yesterday:

This is what OSI is advocating:

GitHub: Where everything comes to die

Summary: Not only does Microsoft besiege the OSI's Board; it also has staff on the payroll (Microsoft's money) pushing the OSI in Microsoft's direction; the OSI actively works to undermine its own mission, having taken money from (been bribed by) its foremost foe half a decade ago

Greener Pastures for Free Software Users: This coming week we'll publish many articles about GNU/Linux and technical means of/for user empowerment
Over at Tux Machines...: yesterday's posts
mp3HD: Another Patent Trolls' Patent Trap That Failed: Reprinted with permission from Ryan Farmer
IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, October 03, 2023: IRC logs for Tuesday, October 03, 2023
"Modern" Computing Sucks and Harms Computer Users: Reprinted with permission from Ryan Farmer
Red Windows: Red Hat is not into Free software
Richard Stallman Giving Talks in the Czech Republic and Germany This Week (Tomorrow's Talk is "Artificial Intelligence vs Language Models"): This past weekend he gave two talks in the Czech Republic
Companies Faking the True Number of Layoffs With Return-to-Office Mandates and Forced Relocation: we estimate that Microsoft cut about 30,000 so far this year, having cut many more jobs last year
Links 03/10/2023: Cellphones (Mobile Phones) Banned in Classrooms in England: Links for the day
IRC Proceedings: Monday, October 02, 2023: IRC logs for Monday, October 02, 2023
Google News, Which We Call Gulag Noise, is Following the New York Times Into the Digital Graveyard: It merely gives an illusion of volume and instead of giving readers more stuff to read it wastes people's time
Daily Bulletins Coming Soon (Hopefully as Early as Next Week): Today we finish testing IRC logs and their upload to Gemini, not just to IPFS
Over at Tux Machines...: yesterday's posts
Software Freedom is the Future and Microsoft is the Biggest Obstacle: GNU/Linux, at its roots, was all about Software Freedom
Links 02/10/2023: NUC, GTK Themes, and More: Links for the day
New Union Syndicale Articles About the European Patent Office: We'll probably get back to regularly writing about the EPO in the near future
If WordPress Knows Well Enough to Self-Host Its Podcast, Why Can't GNU/Linux Shows Do the Same?: For those who want videos and podcasts, here are today's latest additions from other sites
Richard Stallman Can Outlive Many of His Prominent Haters: M.J.G. tried hard to take our Web site offline, based on lies and repeated threats
The GNU/Linux Revolution Ain't Here. Look at Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa (BRICS) Instead.: The revolution won't be televised
Chaffbot Effect: Microsoft Bing Falls to Lowest Share in Two Years (Amid Loads of Bing Layoffs This Year): Press outlets mostly failed to report that Bing is collapsing
Forget VSCode (Microsoft's Proprietary Spyware), Use KATE Instead: KATE is great
Sometimes It's Time to Reboot: No, not Android. KDE.
GNU/Linux Distributions as "Appliances" and DRM Platforms (the Case of ChromeOS and SteamOS): Is this what we envisioned in the 1980s and 90s?
Fulfilling the Site's Full Potential: We remain devoted to the aforementioned goal of posting more original material
Over at Tux Machines...: 2 days' worth
Upcoming Talk by Dr. Richard Stallman: Large Language Models Are Not Artificial Intelligence: LLMs aren't truly intelligent and cannot quite grasp what they spew out
GulagTube is a Burning Platform (Exit YouTube, Invidious Won't Save Us From Google/Alphabet in the Long Run): Alphabet Agency (Google) sees the future of video as a "skinnerbox" (running Android) that indoctrinates you like TikTok does
Microsoft's Demise in the Global News Cycle is Rather Telling: It should be noted that Microsoft is, in general, no longer prominent or dominant in news headlines
Gemini Migration and Backup Capsule (Archive): At the end we'll end up with something a lot better than before and latency should be massively reduced
Links 01/10/2023: Science, Education, and pro-Russia Slovakia Leadership: Links for the day
IRC Proceedings: Sunday, October 01, 2023: IRC logs for Sunday, October 01, 2023

OSI Blog Composed by Microsofters on Microsoft's Payroll, Promoting Proprietary GitHub Using Microsoft's Terminology

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