| 2007-11-26 |
OOXML Muscling Its Way Through German Politics |
| 2008-03-28 |
Bill Gates Makes Phonecalls Again (Politics for Derailing ODF) |
| 2008-04-16 |
Links 16/04/2008: Free Software Seems Big in Italian Politics; Many GNU/Linux Releases |
| 2008-05-13 |
The Ugly Politics of Patent Laws |
| 2008-05-18 |
Patent Sanity in the United States: A Lost Cause? |
| 2008-05-26 |
When Technology Meets Politics |
| 2008-06-04 |
As Punishment for OOXML Scandals Looms, Microsoft Starts Playing Politics |
| 2008-07-11 |
Microsoft and Proxies Work on Changing the Laws Again |
| 2008-07-18 |
Patently Absurd: Microsoft, BSA, IDC, Alsup, and Trend Micro |
| 2008-08-01 |
Don't Play Politics and Diplomacy with Microsoft |
| 2008-08-27 |
Microsoft, TCS, DCI, Edelman, and Those Fake Letters About IP/SCO/Monopoly |
| 2008-11-09 |
Microsoft and National (In)Security; White House Cracked, Windows Botnets Play Politics with SPAM |
| 2008-11-24 |
More Manipulation at Microsoft: Politics, 'Charity' for Automobiles, Media Coverage |
| 2009-01-18 |
Off Topic: Politics of Software (and Everything Else) |
| 2009-01-23 |
Microsoft and Politics (Against Google) |
| 2009-02-07 |
Microsoft Plays Hardball in Politics |
| 2009-05-01 |
Why the United States is Likely Last to Migrate to Free Software |
| 2009-05-02 |
US Government Advisor from Microsoft Travels to Europe and Lobbies |
| 2009-07-30 |
Time to Drop the Word “Zealot” from Software Debates? |
| 2009-09-23 |
Microsoft and “Corporate Politics” |
| 2010-01-23 |
Arianna Huffington and the Gates Family Make a Killing |
| 2010-04-26 |
Microsoft Targets Politicians |
| 2010-05-11 |
Microsoft as Threat to National Sovereignty |
| 2010-06-06 |
ElectionMall Targets Politicians, Microsoft at Bilderberg 2010, and TechAmerica Lobbying
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| 2010-06-16 |
United States of Microsoft? |
| 2011-09-04 |
Cablegate: Microsoft Attacks Free/Libre Software in Tunisia With a Ben Ali Deal, Conspiring to Also Spy on the Population |
| 2012-08-03 |
TechBytes Episode 73: Richard Stallman on Corporate Secrecy and US Politics |
| 2013-08-05 |
TechBytes Video: Richard Stallman on Wasted Votes |
| 2013-08-07 |
Growing Support in US Politics for Elimination of Patent Trolls |
| 2013-10-07 |
Politics and the Media |
| 2014-02-10 |
Links 10/2/2013: Drones, War on Protest, Innovative Torture, and Politics of Leaks |
| 2014-03-01 |
Deception Watch: AstroTurf, Lobbying, and Dirty Politics |
| 2014-03-03 |
News Roundup: Rights and Politics |
| 2014-03-05 |
This Week's News: Civil Rights, Politics and War |
| 2014-03-26 |
The Politics of Openwashing: How Microsoft Pretends That Windows Has 'Open Source', Generates Self-Congratulatory Coverage |
| 2014-04-21 |
Links 21/4/2014: New Games for GNU/Linux, Some NatSec Politics |
| 2014-08-22 |
Microsoft is Still Preying on British Taxpayers, Playing Politics |
| 2014-10-07 |
Benoît Battistelli's Balkan Standards in EPO: Part V |
| 2015-03-23 |
Politics of Blackmail at the EPO |
| 2015-07-16 |
In the Media and in Politics, Everyone Talks About Patent Trolls, Not Patent Scope |
| 2015-10-13 |
EPO Management Lobbies for the Unitary Patent (UPC) and Uses This to Advance Software Patents in Europe |
| 2015-12-13 |
Keeping the European Patent Office (EPO) Out of Politics Amid the EPO's Campaign to Deceive the Media, Politicians |
| 2015-12-14 |
EPO No Longer in the 'Business' of Just Granting Patents But Politics and Lobbying Also |
| 2015-12-20 |
Battistelli's Furious Love Affair With French Power: Part IV |
| 2016-01-17 |
Team Battistelli Has Brought Dirty Politics to the EPO, Pension Cuts May be “Blatantly Illegal” |
| 2016-01-26 |
The EPO Goes Lobbying Even More Heavily in Brussels, Reveals New Job Advertisement |
| 2016-01-31 |
MEP Konstantina Kouneva (Former Trade Unionist) Again Takes Action Against the European Patent Office for Union-Busting Actions |
| 2016-02-01 |
Microsoft Infiltrates Politics and Can Engage in Election Fraud in Iowa Right Now |
| 2016-02-08 |
The Gates Foundation Subjected to Criticism, But Over a Decade Too Late |
| 2016-04-15 |
Totally Inappropriate: The European Patent Office is Still Intervening in European Law and Politics |
| 2016-05-28 |
Battistelli's Assault on EPO Staff's Right to Strike in Relation to French Politics and That 'Bicycle' Pretext for Crackdowns |
| 2016-08-22 |
Battistelli the Liar Causes a Climate of Confrontation in French Politics, Lies About Patent Quality (Among Many Other Things) |
| 2016-09-20 |
Like Big Tobacco Lobbyists, Benoît Battistelli and Team UPC Are Just Chronically Lying and Manipulating Politicians With Their Lies |
| 2016-11-26 |
Duplicate Events for Lobbying by Team UPC Meddle in Politics in an Effort to Enrich Itself at Europe's Expense |
| 2016-11-29 |
Mixing Politics and EPO: How Battistelli Defies the Very Basic Rules of the Office |
| 2017-01-31 |
Links 30/1/2017: Zemlin Does Politics, Ubuntu and Fedora Need Wallpapers |
| 2017-02-16 |
New Survey Reveals That High Patent Quality, or Elimination of Bad Patents, is Desirable to Patent Holders |
| 2017-02-22 |
French Politician Richard Yung Tells the Government About Abuses at the European Patent Office (EPO) |
| 2017-03-02 |
EPO Budget Obscures and Distorts Facts About the Unitary Patent (UPC) in a Classic Antidemocratic Exercise by an Unaccountable Institution |
| 2017-04-29 |
Battistelli is Busy Securing the Vote of Countries Whose Support and Tickets Are Easy to 'Buy' |
| 2017-09-12 |
Upcoming EPO Series: Benoît Battistelli's 'Club Med' |
| 2017-10-27 |
Benoît Battistelli Still Involved in Politics, Probably in Defiance of Clear Rules for International Civil Servants |
| 2018-03-10 |
When Technical Projects Become Politics |
| 2018-03-24 |
Using Politics to Do the Patent Trolls' Bidding With STRONGER Patents Act, Just Like the UPC in Europe |
| 2018-05-23 |
Saint-Germain's Poisonous Legacy of |
| 2018-07-24 |
Alexandre Benalla, Macron's Violent Bodyguard, Was Also Battistelli's Bodyguard |
| 2019-02-24 |
Video: Alexandre Benalla on Carrying Weapons in Munich's EPO Premises (Strictly Illegal in Germany) |
| 2019-08-27 |
Technology is Political |
| 2019-09-16 |
Richard Stallman's Controversial Views Are Nothing New and They Distract From Bill Gates' Vastly Worse Role |
| 2019-11-10 |
Politics in the Workplace Are Not Paradoxical and Outside the Workplace They Are Free Speech |
| 2019-11-20 |
How Ralph Nader Put It |
| 2019-11-29 |
Understanding Thierry Breton: Thierry and the EPO's “Sun-King” |
| 2019-12-28 |
Protecting Free Software Means Studying and Covering Political Affairs Too |
| 2020-02-24 |
Debian Leadership Should Not be 'Shy' of Politics (and It's OK to Admit Palestinians Are Human Beings Too) |
| 2020-06-18 |
Technical Sites Do Not Have an Obligation to Express Any Political Stances |
| 2020-07-30 |
Declassified 6-8 Years Ago: Thomas Watson Jr. (Son of IBM Founder) as Politician Navigating Cold War Politics |
| 2020-07-30 |
IBM and the Bomb - Part I: How IBM Played a Technical and Diplomatic Role in the Cold War |
| 2020-08-01 |
IBM and the Bomb - Part III: IBM's Watson Jr. Rose From Business V.I.P. to U.S. Ambassador in the Soviet Union During the Cold War (Which IBM Profited From) |
| 2020-08-02 |
IBM and the Bomb - Part V: Arms Control by Company That Profits From Nuclear Arms? World War II Mistakes Repeated? |
| 2020-08-02 |
IBM and the Bomb - Part VI: Diplomacy Replaced With 'Trade' (Money Over Politics), or How Watson Jr. Was Sold to the Public, in the Same Way His Father (IBM Co-founder) Sold His Business Relationship With Dictators Like Hitler |
| 2020-08-22 |
Techrights is International |
| 2020-08-26 |
Many Politicians Are Liars Because It's Becoming Part of the Job's Requirements (and Expectations) |
| 2020-09-13 |
[Meme] A Fight That Online and Free Software Communities Are Always Bound to Lose, No Matter Which/Whose 'Side' They Choose |
| 2020-09-16 |
[Meme] Leaks Aren't Our Enemy; They Help Expose an Inherently Corrupt and Unethical System |
| 2020-09-18 |
Somebody Needs to Talk About Free Software Politics |
| 2020-09-18 |
Debian Volunteers Disallowed and Forbidden From Talking About Politics (Unlike Debian's Aristocracy That Handles All the Money From Sponsors) |
| 2020-09-22 |
Erosion of Free Speech and Tolerance of Opposing Viewpoints in Free Software Communities |
| 2020-11-07 |
It Takes Two Boots, the (Fake) Left and the (Extreme) Right |
| 2021-01-16 |
Free Speech on the Web Not Respected by Companies That Used to Support Software Freedom |
| 2021-02-15 |
Software Freedom and Patent Systems Are a Political Endeavour (at Least in Part) |
| 2021-03-29 |
FSF and Politics |
| 2021-04-09 |
EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag — Appendix (Benoît Battistelli's Vichy Syndrome): Georges Henri Léon Battistelli and Charles Robert Battistelli |
| 2021-05-11 |
Richard Stallman on Companies That Are “Only Pretending to be American Companies” |
| 2021-07-09 |
Journalists Who Don't Even Know What the UPC is (or What It's Called) Carry Water for the Patent Litigation Lobby |
| 2021-07-18 |
EPO Collapsing Under Managerial Corruption and Neglect of Staff |
| 2021-07-24 |
Remember That the 'Linux' Foundation is Working Against You (Unless You're a Monopoly) |
| 2021-08-01 |
[Meme] Mozilla Has Turned From Technical to Marketing |
| 2021-08-06 |
'Hacker' 'News' 'Flags' Accurate and Factual Article About Mozilla, So Let's Say More About Mozilla... |
| 2021-08-13 |
Mozilla Should Focus on Improving Thunderbird and Fixing Bugs Instead of Eradicating Innocuous Words |
| 2021-08-14 |
EPO, Europe's Second-Largest Organisation, as a Hub of Corrupt Politics |
| 2021-08-15 |
An EPO Administrative Council Exposé — Part X: A “Fall Guy” For the Deputy Minister? |
| 2021-09-29 |
Links 29/9/2021: Oryx Pro GNU/Linux Laptop and Lots of Politics |
| 2021-10-21 |
How Oppressive Governments and Web Monopolists Might Try to Discourage Adoption of Internet Protocols Like Gemini |
| 2021-10-25 |
Bulgarian Like Bavarian Serfdom |
| 2021-11-07 |
Opinion: The GPL and Politics |
| 2021-11-20 |
Links 20/11/2021: Blender 2.93.6 and Lots of Politics |
| 2022-01-14 |
Scientific Excellence and the Debian Social Contract |
| 2022-03-08 |
Links 8/3/2022: Top Nitrux Applications and Mostly Politics |
| 2022-04-14 |
Tackling EPO Propaganda and Lawlessness: Part 2 |
| 2022-05-31 |
The Linux Foundation Has Turned Its Blog (and the Linux.com Web Site) Into Politics (Updated) |
| 2022-06-09 |
Links 09/06/2022: Python In The Web Browser and Politics |
| 2022-06-13 |
Mozilla, Just Like the Linux Foundation, Has Turned to Politics at Firefox's Expense |
| 2022-06-18 |
Wikipedia is No Longer Trustworthy on Matters of Commerce and Politics (Because of Financial Motives and Power Incentives) |
| 2022-07-02 |
Links 02/07/2022: PSPP 1.6.2 Released, Linux Mint Rejects Parts of Systemd, Lots of Politics |
| 2022-07-06 |
Links 06/07/2022: ASCII Art in GNU/Linux, Lots of Politics |
| 2022-07-26 |
Links 26/07/2022: Open Hardware, DRM, and Politics |
| 2022-09-26 |
IRC Gateway Issues and Separating the Main Techrights IRC Channel From Non-Tech-Related Politics |
| 2022-10-04 |
Links 04/10/2022: Tor Project Board and Conflicts of Interest, More Politics |
| 2022-12-04 |
When the Founder of Your Company Supports Donald Trump the Company Ends up Active in Fascist Platforms |
| 2022-12-23 |
Links 23/12/2022: Catching Up With General News and Politics |
| 2022-12-28 |
Tribalism at Sirius ‘Open Source’ |
| 2023-02-15 |
Links 15/02/2023: PL/Haskell 2.0 and Politics |
| 2023-03-01 |
Links 28/02/2023: New KDE Release and Some Politics |
| 2023-03-04 |
Links 04/03/2023: Lots of Fedora and Politics |
| 2023-03-18 |
Links 18/03/2023: Tor Browser 12.0.4 and Politics |
| 2023-07-02 |
Leftover Links 02/07/2023: Security and Politics |
| 2023-08-17 |
We Don't Do Political Wings, We Focus on Tech Issues |
| 2023-08-26 |
Gemini Links 26/08/2023: Politics and Benchmarking |
| 2023-11-05 |
Links 05/11/2023: Science, Politics, Censorship, and More |
| 2023-11-06 |
Links 06/11/2023: Hardware, Politics, and More |
| 2024-01-14 |
Links 14/01/2024: Weekly Catchup (Politics, Layoffs, and More) |
| 2024-02-17 |
Links 17/02/2024: Politics and Patents Catchup |
| 2024-05-01 |
European Parliament Elections 2024: Daniel Pocock Running as an Independent Candidate |
| 2024-05-06 |
On Character Assassination Tactics |
| 2024-05-06 |
Links 06/05/2024: Scams and Politics |
| 2024-05-25 |
Forget About India's and Pakistan's Nuclear Weapons and Armament Race, They Need to Abscond Windows and Microsoft (Security Swiss Cheese) |
| 2024-06-03 |
[Meme] Daniel Pocock Against GAFAM Interference in Irish Politics (for Tax Evasion and More) |
| 2024-06-12 |
Ireland Last to Report Election Results |
| 2024-06-13 |
Links 13/06/2024: Science, Politics, and Gemini |
| 2024-07-13 |
Kathy Lette on Julian Assange Staying at Her Attic, Why His Release Matters So Much, and Jen Robinson Staying Over Yesterday |
| 2024-07-18 |
Gemini Links 18/07/2024: A Welcome to Gemini and Politics of Assassinations |
| 2024-07-21 |
Links 21/07/2024: Climate, Politics, and More Squashed Patents |
| 2024-07-22 |
Links 21/07/2024: Health, Politics, and Kamala Harris in Focus |
| 2024-07-29 |
The Politics of Calls for Assassination |
| 2024-08-04 |
[Meme] How to Divide the Community Based on and United Around Shared Belief/Ideology on Software Freedom |
| 2024-08-05 |
“Ignoring office politics doesn't avoid them. It makes you the target." |
| 2024-08-23 |
[Meme] A Meme's CoC as "Conduct Policy" or "Terms of Service" (TOS) |
| 2024-09-11 |
Richard Stallman Still Deals With Politics |
| 2024-09-11 |
Linus Torvalds, the Son of a Politician, Tries to Stay Out of Politics (or Political Topics) |
| 2024-09-14 |
Links 14/09/2024: Science, War, and Politics |
| 2024-09-14 |
[Meme] The Prosecutor and Prosecuted, the Community and Businessmen (Red Hat) |
| 2024-09-23 |
Links 23/09/2024: More Layoffs and Toxic Politics |
| 2024-09-26 |
Microsoft Won't Need to Kill Red Hat Because IBM is Already Doing It (Corporate Suicide) |
| 2024-09-30 |
Torvalds (the Son) Isn't a Freedom Fighter, But He Deals With Politics |
| 2024-10-05 |
[Meme] How to Keep Granting Hundreds of Thousands of Fake Patents (Without Upsetting Anybody in Politics and Media) |
| 2024-10-07 |
Links 07/10/2024: Politics, Education, Wars, Financial Crunch |
| 2024-10-13 |
Links 13/10/2024: Science, Politics, and Some Gemini |
| 2024-10-16 |
Links 16/10/2024: Science, Politics, and BBC Cuts |
| 2024-11-06 |
Planet Debian Allows Politics (But It Depends on Your Opinions and Debian's Big Sponsors) |
| 2024-11-09 |
Links 09/11/2024: Politics, Climate, and Why Physical Cash is Crucial |
| 2024-11-09 |
Pocock Running for Office Again |
| 2024-11-10 |
Politics Becoming Way Too 'Toxic' |
| 2024-11-10 |
Links 10/11/2024: Politics, Economics, and Ticketmaster Issues |
| 2024-11-14 |
Links 14/11/2024: Politics, Climate, and Instability |
| 2024-11-20 |
Links 20/11/2024: Politics, Toolkits, and Gemini Journals |
| 2024-12-10 |
Links 10/12/2024: Health, Politics, Economics, and More |
| 2025-01-20 |
Daniel Pocock's ClueCon 2024 Presentation Was Also Streamed Live in YouTube and Later Removed by Google, Citing "Copyrights". Now It's Back. |
| 2025-01-20 |
Gemini Links 20/01/2025: Conflicted Feelings and Politics |
| 2025-01-21 |
[Video] Daniel Pocock's Public Talk About Free Software Politics, Social Engineering, Debian Deaths and Suicides, Coercion and Exploitation of Women |
| 2025-01-23 |
Gemini Links 23/01/2025: US Politics and DevOps Career |
| 2025-02-24 |
Gemini Links 24/02/2025: Politics, Monarchy, and AuraRepo Prism VCS Suppor |
| 2025-02-26 |
Links 26/02/2025: Science, Hardware, and Politics |
| 2025-03-05 |
Links 04/03/2025: Hardware, Health, Data Breaches, Politics |
| 2025-03-25 |
Growing Poverty Rates in the United States of America (or Elsewhere) Beneficial to GNU/Linux Adoption |
| 2025-04-06 |
Links 06/04/2025: Science, Politics, and Pricier Goods |
| 2025-04-10 |
Links 10/04/2025: Hardware, Politics, and Internet |
| 2025-04-24 |
Using a Law Firm's Licence to Exercise Politics Through Frivolous SLAPPs and Nastygrams (to Silence People, Remove Pages, Demand Fake or Forced 'Apologies') |
| 2025-04-27 |
Links 27/04/2025: Pope Goodbyes, "Politics of Fear", Slop Redux and More Google Shutdowns (Google Debt Had Grown This Year) |
| 2025-05-04 |
statCounter Says Only One in 6 Web-Connected Clients in Hungary Are Using Windows, iOS Almost Bigger Than Windows Now |
| 2025-06-08 |
The Issue Isn't GNOME's Promotion of Diversity But GNOME Corruption, Abuse, Censorship, and Worse |
| 2025-06-12 |
Politics Will Impact Software Choices |
| 2025-06-13 |
X11 is Free Software |
| 2025-06-25 |
Wayland is Perfect, Nobody Can Escape Its Perfection! (Or Not) |
| 2025-07-07 |
Why Many of Us Use X Server and Will Continue to Use It For Many Years to Come |
| 2025-07-09 |
Technical Reasons, Not Politics: With Wayland "it feels a lot like Linux from 20-25 years ago, which is horrendously frustrating, because it feels like we wasted one or two decades of progress and stability" |
| 2025-07-16 |
It is Not About Politics |
| 2025-07-17 |
The People Who Promoted systemd in Debian Also Promote Wayland |
| 2025-07-20 |
The History of Daily Links and Politics |
| 2025-07-21 |
Links 21/07/2025: Indie Web and Toxic Politics |
| 2025-07-24 |
Too Bribed by Microsoft to Move to Free Software? |
| 2025-08-10 |
Gemini Links 10/08/2025: Residents Management Company, Automation, and Politics |
| 2025-08-11 |
Links 11/08/2025: Data Breaches, Politics, and Climate |
| 2025-08-14 |
Microsoft's Bankruptcy in Russia is Only the Beginning |
| 2025-08-16 |
Gemini Links 16/08/2025: Politics and Alhena 5.2.8 |
| 2025-08-25 |
Links 25/08/2025: Data Breaches, Politics, and Financial Strain |
| 2025-09-23 |
Gemini Links 24/09/2025: Gemlogs and Politics |
| 2025-09-24 |
This is How Microsoft's XBox and Entire Consoles (If Not Gaming) Ventures Will Ultimately Die |
| 2025-10-01 |
Bad Actors Abusing the Free Software Community, Vandalising It Using Rogue Politics and Old Tactics |
| 2025-10-14 |
Probably a Lot Worse Than LLM Slop: GNOME Tying Itself to Divisive Politics, Even Where It's Clearly Not Relevant |
| 2025-10-17 |
Richard Stallman (RMS) is a Target of Defamation Campaigns Because of His Views on Software (But Politics Are the Excuse for Defaming Him) |
| 2025-11-04 |
Links 04/11/2025: Conflicts, Politics, and IPv6 at Home |
| 2025-11-07 |
On Midlife Crises |
| 2025-11-11 |
The 'Politics' of Operating Systems (or Exclusion for Inclusion's Sake) |
| 2025-11-11 |
Links 11/11/2025: Conflicts and Politics From National Broadcasters |
| 2025-11-12 |
Trying to Cancel People and Projects That You Don't Like by Changing the Focus to Politics |
| 2025-11-15 |
Links 15/11/2025: Science, Conflicts, and International Politics |
| 2025-11-17 |
How We Managed to Make IRC Inclusive and Free Speech-Tolerant Without Banning People |
| 2025-11-25 |
Latest From 'analognowhere' Comic Strip Focuses on GAFAM Politics |
| 2025-12-01 |
Links 01/12/2025: National News About Politics, Economics, and Civil Rights |
| 2025-12-22 |
Links 22/12/2025: Data Breaches, deterioration in Politics, and Geminispace |
| 2026-02-03 |
Colombia Adopting GNU/Linux Even Faster (at Microsoft's and Apple's Expense) |
| 2026-02-06 |
Blackmail evidence: Debian social engineering exposed in ClueCon 2024 talk on politics |
| 2026-02-09 |
A Can of WORMS - Part IV - They Would Even Attack RMS for Criticising Autocrats (Saying This is "Politics") |
| 2026-02-10 |
Links 10/02/2026: Media Freedom Feels Dead in Hong Kong and Grammys, Superbowl Becoming Politics |
| 2026-02-15 |
When It Comes to Rust, Keep All the Eyes on the Ball (Technical and Legal Perils, Sustainability Questions) |
| 2026-02-15 |
Links 15/02/2026: Slop, Politics, and Gemini |
| 2026-02-20 |
Links 20/02/2026: Standards, Science, and Politics |
| 2026-02-21 |
Firefox is No-Go in China, Not Even 1% "Market Share" Anymore |
| 2026-02-25 |
IBM Debt-Loading and Liability (Toxic Asset) Offloading |
