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1 readyHow Software Patents Were Viewed or Their General Status Changed Over Time (updated)

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2 readyNothing that Microsoft Lunduke claims or says can be trusted (updated)

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3 readyDatamation, Where I Used to Publish Articles, Appears to Have Been Sold to TechnologyAdvice Only to Become a Slopfarm (updated)

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4 readyThe statCounter Site Has Data Integrity Problems

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5 ready10 Ways to Combat Software Patents

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6 ready"Just a Little Bit of Meat..."

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7 readyCompromised by NVIDIA Proprietary Library

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8 readyRed Hat is Ignoring the Free Software Community, It's a "Fortune 1000" Vendor

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9 readyAdvocacy of Software Freedom Changed, LUGs Became Less Relevant

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10 readyFree Software Foundation Party Has Begun

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11 readyFormer Head of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Lina Khan Knows Whatever Microsoft Touches Will Die

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12 readySlopwatch: Fake Articles About LibreOffice in Austria and Wine 10.16

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13 readyLinks 04/10/2025: "attempted Coup" Noted in Facebook, Russia Kills Journalists via Drones

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14 readyGemini Links 04/10/2025: Anesthesia and Baudpunk

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15 readyLinks 04/10/2025: "Privacy Harm Is Harm", Criticism Outlawed in US

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16 readyGarmin Uses Linux for Some of the Garmin Products, Now It's Sued by Strava Using Software Patents

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17 readyRichard Stallman Will Give a Talk in Sweden in 6 Days

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18 readyFSF Turns 40

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19 readyOver at Tux Machines...

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20 readyIRC Proceedings: Friday, October 03, 2025

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21 readyGemini Links 04/10/2025: Distro Hopping and "Part Time"

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22 readyWe Are Turning 19 in One Month, FSF Turns 40 in 3 Hours (CET)

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23 readyPatent Docs (or PatentDocs) Learned the Wrong Lessons From the Death of TypePad

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24 readyUSPTO Patent Bubble Already Imploding, After Decades of Artificial Inflation, Entire Offices Close for Good

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25 readyTikTok is Not Harmless (Being CheeTok in the US Will Advance Orange Agenda)

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26 readyAndy Farnell and Helen Plews Explain What "Modern" Tech Does to Old People

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27 readyTomorrow the Free Software Foundation (FSF) Turns 40 and Its Web Site is Still Slow Due to DDoS by LLM Slop Bots

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28 readySlopwatch: Google News as a Firehose of LLM Slop About "Linux"

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29 readyLinks 03/10/2025: "NPR’s Economics Lessons Come With Neoliberal Spin" and Canada Post at Risk

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30 readyGemini Links 03/10/2025: Panic Attacks and Food Adulteration

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31 readyLinks 03/10/2025: Lawyers Caught Using LLM Slop Explain Why They Did It, LibreSSL 4.1.1 and 4.0.1 Released

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32 readyFSF Board Grew 50% Since Last Year, Has New President, Turns 40 in Two Days

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33 readyLinks 03/10/2025: Conflicts, Death of TypePad, and TikTok/CheeTok Gives a Boost to Far Right Groups in Europe

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34 readyOver at Tux Machines...

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35 readyIRC Proceedings: Thursday, October 02, 2025

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36 readySlopwatch: Linux Journal, Google News, and LinuxSecurity

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37 readyGemini Links 02/10/2025: Kubernetes With FreeBSD and robots.txt

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38 readyLinks 02/10/2025: 'Open' 'AI' Resorting to Gimmicks and Fake Funding, Europe’s ‘Drone Wall’ Discussed

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39 readyLinks 02/10/2025: Brave Passes 100M Users Milestone, Kodak Selling Its Own Film Again

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40 readyMichael “Monty” Widenius: It Started in 1983 With Richard Stallman (RMS)

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41 readysu lisa && rm -rf /home/ibm/power

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42 readyA Record Demand at Microsoft: Demand to Cancel

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43 readyMicrosoft is Losing Europe

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44 readyThe Free Software Foundation Starts Fund-raising for 40th Anniversary

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45 readySystemd Breaks Networking in Debian and Microsoft Staff Rushes to Make Face-Saving Excuses in LWN

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46 readyOver at Tux Machines...

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47 readyIRC Proceedings: Wednesday, October 01, 2025

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48 readyWhat the End of XBox Will Look Like: a Fiery Crash

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49 readyRichard Stallman is Going to Finland to Give a Talk Next Thursday

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50 readyGemini Links 02/10/2025: SMTP Pipelining and End of ROOPHLOCH 2025

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