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Azure Reality Log

  • 02.13.11 Another Senior Vice President Quits Microsoft and Microsoft Sues Departing Executive
  • 01.06.12 Microsoft Can Use Azure and SUSE to Put a Patent Tax on GNU/Linux
  • 03.04.12 Time to Dump Microsoft
  • 07.05.12 OpenLogic Helps Microsoft Again
  • 09.27.12 Xamarin and Miguel de Icaza Help Microsoft
  • 03.24.13 SUSE in Microsoft’s Fog Computing
  • 07.15.13 Ubuntu and SUSE ‘Cloud’ Users Spied on Through Microsoft Windows Azure (With NSA Back Doors)
  • 07.28.13 Microsoft is Adding Surveillance and Tax to Free/Libre Software
  • 10.31.15 Microsoft’s Poaching Efforts (Against GNU/Linux) Advance, Don’t Fall Into the Trap
  • 02.12.17 Microsoft’s Latest Attack Plan on GNU/Linux Has Become Clearer and It’s Still About Software Patents
  • 02.27.17 As Long as Software Patents Are Granted and Microsoft Equips Trolls With Them, “Azure IP Advantage” is an Attack on Free/Libre Software
  • 03.19.17 What’s OIN Doing While Microsoft is Siccing Patent Trolls on Azure Competitors’ Customers?
  • 09.26.17 Microsoft Brings Its GNU/Linux-Hostile Patent Scheme to China
  • 02.09.18 To Understand the Protection Racket Look Not at Microsoft But at Patent Trolls Which It Sponsors
  • 10.23.18 Microsoft’s Patent Troll Intellectual Ventures Still Suing Microsoft’s Rivals, Microsoft Gags Its Staff Regarding Patent Matters
  • 05.07.19 Microsoft Will Have You Sued for Not Hosting GNU/Linux on Azure (Paying Rents)


  • 08.25.10 Microsoft is ‘Openwashing’ Azure
  • 09.27.10 The Quiet Web Failures at Microsoft: Silverlight and Azure
  • 12.11.14 Ubuntu Core Announcement is Not About Microsoft and Hosting Ubuntu on Azure is Worse Than Stupid
  • 12.10.17 Microsoft-Connected Patent Trolls Are Increasingly Active and Microsoft is Selling ‘Protection’ (Azure Subscriptions)
  • 11.25.18 Self-Professed Linux ‘Lover’ Microsoft Passes Questionable Patents to DJI as Part of “Microsoft-DJI Collaboration on Azure”


  • 10.14.08 Nokia, Apple, Microsoft, and Other Software Patent Brats
  • 10.20.08 Patents Roundup: Microsoft’s Own Patent Trolls Subjugate Indians; New Evidence of Ill Systems
  • 10.29.08 Use of False Promises to Attract Free Software Developers
  • 10.30.08 Microsoft’s Professional Developers Conference and Novell
  • 10.31.08 Eye on Microsoft: Picture of a Monopoly in Constant Decline
  • 11.01.08 Eye on Microsoft: Foggy Clouds, Counterfeiting, and Security Problems
  • 11.06.08 Eye on Microsoft: Windows Under Attack from Critics, Cyber Criminals; Yahoo! Besieged by Microsoft
  • 12.25.08 The (Microsoft) Nightmare Before Christmas
  • 03.18.09 Downtime at Microsoft (Updated)
  • 03.23.09 Microsoft’s Very Own “Death Spiral” (on the Web)
  • 03.26.09 Why Microsoft Has Already Crashed OSBC 2009
  • 03.31.09 Open Cloud Manifesto Would be Absolutely Right to Exclude ISO Corrupter, Microsoft
  • 04.01.09 Microsoft and Novell Still Grow Closer
  • 04.10.09 Rainy Weather in Microsoft’s ‘Cloud’ This Week
  • 06.06.09 Novell News Summary – Part III: Offshoring, More Financial Analysis, and SCO
  • 06.22.09 Zune and Xbox Still Circling Down the Drain After Long Downtime
  • 08.04.09 Microsoft Watch on Microsoft vs Google and Microsoft vs Sub-notebooks
  • 08.06.09 Microsoft Keeps Running from the Law… and from Tax
  • 10.29.09 Microsoft Tries to Use Eclipse for Microsoft Lock-in
  • 11.02.09 Response to The Guardian’s Boosting of Vista 7 (Including Transcript)
  • 12.21.09 Microsoft Still Corrupts the Meaning of “Open” in Order to Enter Government Contracts, Cronies Help
  • 01.12.10 Microsoft Betrays Another ‘Partner’, This Time MySQL
  • 02.08.10 Microsoft Still Exploits the Taxpayers-Funded NASA to Spread Silver Lie and Close Down Research
  • 02.08.10 Facebook and Microsoft Revisited; New Examples of Microsoft Entryism
  • 02.08.10 Microsoft ‘Cloud’ Falls Offline for a Quarter of a Day, Zune ‘Cloud’ Deletes Music, Microsoft Shop Also Kaput
  • 02.22.10 Downtimes and Lack of Liability as Reasons to Avoid Microsoft Online
  • 03.19.10 Unsolicited Mail from Microsoft Canada Wants Developers to Create/Increase Government’s Windows Lock-in
  • 03.22.10 Government Cronyism Watch: Microsoft Inside FCC, California, Washington, and Bahrain
  • 04.17.10 Novell News Summary – Part III: Forrester Talks About Novell’s “Imminent Sale”; GroupWise’s Retreat and Business Partners
  • 05.14.10 Microsoft et al. “Embrace and Extend” That Whole “Open Thing”
  • 05.25.10 Microsoft Attacks Linux Competition Using Lawsuits and Threats (With Software Patents), Pays Acacia/IP Innovation After Anti-Linux Lawsuit
  • 05.31.10 Tax-Free Financial Gain at Microsoft Assisted by Governor Gregoire
  • 06.29.10 Microsoft Keeps Losing Market Share to Google, Goes Aggressive, Discriminates Against GNU/Linux, and Grabs People’s Healthcare System
  • 07.05.10 Microsoft Plays Government
  • 07.25.10 Microsoft’s Worst Open Source ‘Infiltration’ Ever
  • 07.25.10 Distrusted Media and the Illusion of Microsoft as an Open Source Player
  • 07.29.10 Giving Your Data to Microsoft, Now Available as ‘Open Source’ (for Windows Only)
  • 08.03.10 Microsoft Entryism Claimed at Python
  • 08.12.10 Microsoft Continues to Distort the Word ‘Open’ and Harm SVG Using Proprietary VML
  • 08.23.10 Microsoft Approaches New Minimums and Loses Billions Online
  • 08.25.10 Microsoft Tactic: We Love Open Source, But Those ‘Zealots’ Don’t Love Us Back
  • 08.27.10 Adobe Distances Itself From Dave McAllister’s Attack on Oracle and Implicit Defence of Microsoft
  • 08.27.10 Claim: Microsoft Pressured Digidesign to Deny Support of GNU/Linux (and Maybe UNIX Too)
  • 08.27.10 Second Microsoft Co-founder Becomes a Patent Troll Just Like Bill Gates, Sues Microsoft Competitors
  • 09.05.10 Microsoft Almost Downgraded Again (This Time by Credit Suisse), Value Falls Sharply
  • 09.19.10 Microsoft’s Most Profitable Windows (Vista) is Already Dead, Microsoft Camp Urges a Rush to Vista 7
  • 09.20.10 Job Openings at Microsoft: More GNU/Linux and FOSS Attackers
  • 10.06.10 TED Brand is Being Hijacked by Microsoft, Now With TEDxRedmond
  • 10.30.10 Microsoft Silver Lie is Virtually Dead. Is Moon Lie Dead Too?
  • 11.01.10 Miguel de Icaza Was Wrong About Silverlight and .NET
  • 12.02.10 Amidst Its Moves to Software Freedom Italy Falls Under Microsoft Siege
  • 12.04.10 En Medio de sus Movimientos a el Software Libre Italia Cae bajo Siega de Microsoft
  • 12.27.10 Novell Being Bribed by Microsoft to Support OOXML is Not News
  • 01.01.11 .NET and Windows Presentation Foundation Abandoned by Evernote, “Multi-platform” Means Microsoft-Only
  • 03.03.11 IDG is Again Advertising and Whitewashing Microsoft in Articles About ‘Open Source’
  • 09.10.11 The Cost of Using Microsoft
  • 10.20.11 Links – Deranged noises and damage from a Dying Microsoft. Corruption all around.
  • 11.18.11 Defeats for Microsoft on the Web
  • 01.11.12 Only Fools and Horses… Run Windows on the Server
  • 01.25.12 Microsoft Wants Node.js to Run Just on Windows
  • 06.09.12 Aiding Criminals
  • 06.13.12 Microsoft’s Latest Assault on Privacy
  • 06.13.12 Red Hat Was Wrong About UEFI, Failed to Ask the Users
  • 07.25.12 Microsoft Dictatorship Divides and Conquers Linux With Novell, Red Hat, and Ubuntu
  • 07.28.12 Microsoft’s Bad Mouth Causes Linux Havoc
  • 02.23.13 Microsoft Office Cannot Evolve, Monoculture Eroded
  • 03.12.13 Latest Microsoft Openwashing, Including ‘Future Of Open Source’ Survey From Proprietary Software Company With Microsoft Ties
  • 03.22.13 Grooming Microsoft as the Voice of Free/Open Source Software
  • 04.03.13 Red Hat Repeats Canonical’s Mistake by Hiring From Microsoft, Amazon Already Captive
  • 04.19.13 Microsoft’s ‘Cloud’ Strategy: Make GNU/Linux More Expensive Using Patent Blackmail, Then Offer ‘Linux Apps’ on Windows
  • 05.04.13 Microsoft ‘Open’ Technologies Designed to Isolate Microsoft From FOSS Community, Claims OSI President; Microsoft’s Patent Extortion and Sabotage of FOSS Continue
  • 05.09.13 Microsoft Moles Assimilate FOSS (Microsoft’s Philosophical Opposition) to Microsoft
  • 07.26.13 Why People Should Never Rely on Microsoft for GNU/Linux and Java
  • 08.07.13 Using Windows With TOR is Like Wearing Makeup to Dodge CCTV
  • 08.13.13 Microsoft Hardly Changes Its Smear Campaign Against Google After Microsoft’s Collusion With the NSA Got Exposed
  • 08.15.13 Sorry, NSA, Microsoft is Down
  • 08.19.13 Microsoft + Oracle = NSA Surveillance (e.g. Espionage) on Servers
  • 10.24.13 Canonical/Ubuntu-Related Links for September-October 2013
  • 11.23.13 K. Y. Srinivasan: From Serving Microsoft’s Agenda Inside Novell to Helping Microsoft Infiltrate and Control Linux
  • 12.27.13 Computing Workload: Get It Off the ‘Cloud’, Quickly
  • 01.16.14 Don’t Host GNU/Linux Under Hyper-V or Windows; There Are Back Doors
  • 01.22.14 Microsoft’s State-Imposed Indoctrination and Back Doors
  • 01.29.14 New Examples of Collaboration, Freedom, and Transparency at Work
  • 01.30.14 Latest SUSE: More Microsoft-Serving, More Microsoft-Controlled
  • 02.05.14 ‘New’ Microsoft Leadership Just Rebranding of Patent Extortion, Bribery, and Illegal Surveillance
  • 02.07.14 OpenDaylight Run by Former Microsoft Man, Funded by Microsoft, Helps Microsoft
  • 03.07.14 Red Hat Joins the Joke Which is Amazon’s ‘Secure’ Federal ‘Cloud’
  • 03.27.14 Hosting GNU/Linux Under Windows or Hyper-V is Hosting With Back Doors
  • 04.01.14 Canonical Breaks Up With Amazon Over CIA Connections
  • 04.05.14 Don’t Be Fooled by Microsoft: .NET is Proprietary Software, Still
  • 04.07.14 Microsoft’s Manipulation of the Media Demonstrated
  • 04.11.14 Going Bankrupt (or Wasting Taxpayers’ Money) With Microsoft and PRISM
  • 05.28.14 ‘Wired’ Under New Management (Condé Nast) is a Microsoft and Bill Gates Grooming Operation
  • 07.07.14 The NSA’s Top (and First) PRISM Partner, Microsoft, Lies to Governments and Businesses as Office Gets Banned in China
  • 07.27.14 Apple and Microsoft Are Proprietary Software Companies and the Media Should Stop Openwashing Them
  • 07.31.14 Microsoft-Linked Codenomicon and Bluebox in the Business of Smearing FOSS/Linux/Android
  • 08.20.14 Vista 8 Such a Disaster That Even Microsoft Cannot Cope With It, Vapourware Tactics Start Early
  • 08.22.14 Microsoft is Still Preying on British Taxpayers, Playing Politics
  • 08.27.14 Microsoft Spin Watch: IDG Turns to More Microsoft Propaganda, Hires Microsoft Boosters
  • 10.21.14 Microsoft ‘Loving’ GNU/Linux and Other Corporate Media Fiction
  • 11.15.14 The Terrible Joke Which is Microsoft ‘Loving’ Linux: Nightmares With UEFI ‘Secure’ Boot (i.e. Windows Monopoly Imposed) Continue to Affect GNU/Linux Users
  • 11.15.14 Debunking Several Days of Never-Ending Lies About Microsoft and .NET
  • 12.04.14 Microsoft .NET Still a Patent Trap, Many Bamboozled by Media-Coordinating Announcement
  • 01.14.15 Google Has Eliminated Microsoft’s Dominance in Operating Systems, Microsoft Resorts to Propaganda, Child Exploitation, and EEE
  • 01.24.15 The Latest ‘Microsoft is Open Source’ Propaganda a Parade of Lies
  • 02.21.15 Microsoft AstroTurfing War on GNU/Linux is Still Going On, But Hidden Better, Uses API as Instrument of Lock-in
  • 03.21.15 Microsoft Hates Linux – Part IV – Deleting, Attacking Android/Linux From Within
  • 03.21.15 Microsoft Hates Linux – Part VI – Propaganda Wars Against Free Software Facilitated While Media Control is Secured and Abused
  • 04.06.15 Microsoft is Still Openwashing Perfect Apparatuses for Back Doors: Common Carrier (Windows), ‘Cloud’, and Compiler
  • 04.14.15 Microsoft is Still Googlebombing the Term Open Source and Fooling Politicians Who Now Think Microsoft is Open Source
  • 04.18.15 Microsoft Tired of Pretending to be Nice to Free/Open Source Software (FOSS), Microsoft ‘Open’ Technologies Dumped
  • 04.21.15 Googlebombing ‘Microsoft Open Source’ Even When Microsoft Shuts Down Its ‘Open Source’ Proxy
  • 04.29.15 Microsoft’s Patent Attacks on Android Not Covered in the Corporate Media, Only Microsoft as the ‘Victim’
  • 05.03.15 Microsoft India’s Unofficial ‘Branch’ Infosys is Torturing the Meaning of Open Source Software
  • 05.14.15 Spinning Microsoft’s Inability to Sell Windows (or Office) as a Strength
  • 05.20.15 Microsoft is Again Showing Its Hatred of Free/Open Source Software by Lobbying the Indian Government to Drop a Rational National Policy
  • 06.03.15 Only Months After Microsoft’s Ramji Enters the Linux Foundation Microsoft Gradually Joins Him
  • 06.12.15 Trapping GNU/Linux in Proprietary Software Environments (Hosts)
  • 06.17.15 Microsoft is Trying to Subsume GNU/Linux and Free/Libre Software
  • 06.25.15 DockerCon 2015 Infiltrated by Microsoft
  • 06.27.15 The Latest Lies From Microsoft’s PR Apparatus/Public Face, Mr. Nadella
  • 07.14.15 Gross Openwashing of Microsoft and Windows, Propaganda About Associated Costs
  • 07.16.15 Hosting With Microsoft Software a Terrible Idea, as United Airlines Serves to Show
  • 07.17.15 Rackspace Joins Hands With NSA’s PRISM Pioneer, Cannot be Trusted for Security Anymore
  • 07.21.15 Don’t Ever Rely on Microsoft for Hardware, Hosting, Especially When it Comes to GNU/Linux
  • 07.22.15 Amid Billions in Losses, Microsoft Tries to Conquer the Competition (Which Already Wins)
  • 08.10.15 Microsoft is Turning All of Windows (Not Just Vista 10) Into Malware, Turning Networks Into Botnets, Harvesting Sensitive Data Everywhere
  • 08.12.15 Painting Microsoft as ‘Friend’ of Free/Open Source Software and GNU/Linux to Help it Devour All Data, Workloads
  • 09.01.15 Calling Proprietary Software, Software Patents, Lock-in (Like OOXML) and DRM ‘Open’
  • 09.21.15 Microsoft Claims to Have Built ‘Windows’ on Top of Linux, But Where is the Source Code (GPL)?
  • 10.01.15 The ‘Microsoft Loves Linux’ Baloney is Still Being Floated in the Media While Microsoft Attacks Linux With Patents, New Lawsuits Reported
  • 10.22.15 At All Things Open (ATO) Microsoft is Embracing, Extending, Extinguishing GNU/Linux, Hopes to Do the Same to Android (Updated)
  • 10.27.15 SourceClear: Yet Another Microsoft-Connected (Coming From Microsoft) FOSS FUD Firm
  • 11.04.15 Red Hat’s Deal With Microsoft Resurrects Fears of Software Patents Against GNU/Linux and Introduces ‘Triple-Dipping’ of Fees
  • 11.04.15 Red Hat Sells Out With a Microsoft Patent Deal
  • 11.05.15 Media Coverage of the Red Hat-Microsoft Deal Includes Microsoft Talking Points and Moles, No Discussion About Patent Aspects
  • 11.05.15 More Information Emerges About the Microsoft-Red Hat Patent Agreement
  • 11.06.15 Summary of the Red Hat-Microsoft Patent Agreement of 2015
  • 11.07.15 Red Hat is Chastised For Playing Along With Microsoft’s Patent Scheme Rather Than Challenge the Patents Like Google and the Alice Case Did
  • 11.10.15 Only Days After Red Hat Legitimised Microsoft’s Patents Against Linux Another Linux-Using Company Falls Victim to Microsoft’s Patent Extortion
  • 11.12.15 After Patent Deal With Microsoft Canon Gets Sued (Using Software Patents) by a Microsoft-Connected Patent Troll
  • 11.16.15 Red Hat-Microsoft Deal Increasingly Resembles Novell-Microsoft Deal (Including Patent Aspects)
  • 12.12.15 Microsoft is Getting Utterly Desperate
  • 01.28.16 Microsoft is Still Dying
  • 02.09.16 Microsoft’s Copyrights- and Patents-Based Attacks on GNU/Linux Carry on
  • 03.13.16 Microsoft esta Convirtiendo a Eclipse En Herramienta de Software Propietario al Hincar sus Garras En La Fundación Eclipse
  • 03.13.16 Microsoft Accused of “Patent Trolling” While the United States Moves Closer to Restricting Patent Trolls
  • 03.15.16 Microsoft Acusado de “Trolling con Patentes” Mientras Que Los Estados Unidos se Mueve Cerca a Restringir a los Trolles de Patentes
  • 03.21.16 Embrace, Extend, Extinguish (EEE) Alive and Well at Microsoft: Docker, Android, Nokia, and Telstra
  • 03.25.16 As Expected, Microsoft Uses Proprietary DCOS as a Weapon Against Free Software (GNU/Linux)
  • 04.03.16 Microsoft’s Charm Offensive Against GNU/Linux Uses the Same Media Strategy Donald Trump Uses
  • 04.04.16 “The ‘old Microsoft’ is still the ‘new Microsoft’, only the face of the company has changed – CEO and PR.”
  • 04.05.16 “El Viejo Microsoft es Todavía el ‘Nuevo Microsoft’, Sólo la cara de la Compañía ha Cambiado – CEO y PR.”
  • 04.22.16 Microsoft’s Patent Blackmail Against Linux Not Enough to Keep Microsoft Afloat, Many More Layoffs Coming
  • 06.05.16 Microsoft is Still an Evil Company, Don’t Believe the Reputation Laundering ‘Campaigners’
  • 06.28.16 Today’s Media Coverage Says Microsoft Loves Linux, But Today Microsoft Extorted Linux Using Software Patents Again
  • 11.07.16 Microsoft’s Evil Patent Agenda, Issues Pertaining to Patent Scope, and the Mass Invalidation of Software Patents in the US
  • 11.16.16 Don’t Believe the Lies; Microsoft Hates Linux and Merely Pulls E.E.E. Tactics Against It, Including .NET Promotion
  • 02.28.17 IAM ‘Magazine’ Rented Out to Microsoft Again, in Order to Attack Amazon (as Host of Free/Libre Software) Using Software Patents FUD
  • 03.02.17 The Long Reach of Microsoft’s Patent Troll, Intellectual Ventures, and the Impact on TiVo
  • 03.10.17 With Latest Promotions, Microsoft Puts Its Tokens in the Patent Shakedown Basket, Its Patent Trolls Fight for Software Patents
  • 03.15.17 More Good News About the US Patent System Crushing Software Patents While the Reformer, Michelle Lee, Stays
  • 03.15.17 Microsoft Continues to Hoard Patents — Even Buying Patents — While Using Them Against GNU/Linux
  • 03.21.17 Intellectual Ventures — Like Microsoft (Which It Came From) — Spreads Patents to Manifest a Lot of Lawsuits
  • 03.25.17 It Certainly Looks Like Microsoft is Already Siccing Its Patent Trolls, Including Intellectual Ventures, on Companies That Use Linux (Until They Pay ‘Protection’ Money)
  • 03.29.17 Recognising the Death of Software Patents, Microsoft’s Largest Ally in India Belatedly Joins the Linux-Centric Open Invention Network
  • 04.04.17 Microsoft’s Patent Extortion Against Linux Now Targets Watches With Linux on Them
  • 04.05.17 Patent Attacks on GNU/Linux Devices, Courtesy of Philips, Ericsson, Microsoft and Its Patent Trolls
  • 04.17.17 Patents Roundup: Microsoft, Embargo, Tax Evasion, Surveillance, and Censorship
  • 07.15.17 Amazon is Stockpiling Terrible Patents and Using These for Competitive Advantage
  • 07.15.17 Microsoft-Owned LinkedIn is Ramping Up Software Patents Pursuits, Maybe Lawsuits
  • 07.30.17 Microsoft’s (Patent) War on GNU/Linux Continues, But It’s Disguised Using Intermediaries
  • 10.28.17 Canon Has Proven That Microsoft’s Shell Game With Patent Trolls Makes ‘Peace’ Deals (Paying ‘Protection’ Money) Futile, Belatedly Joins OIN
  • 11.07.17 Microsoft and Its Patent Trolls Pick Up Patents Whilst Attacking GNU/Linux and Dodging Infringement
  • 12.09.17 Like the EPO, Taiwan/China (SIPO) Harm SMEs With a Policy of Patent Maximalism Which Fosters Litigation, Not Innovation
  • 01.16.18 Microsoft’s Patent Racket Has Just Been Broadened to Threaten GNU/Linux Users Who Don’t Pay Microsoft ‘Rents’
  • 01.18.18 Microsoft, Masking/Hiding Itself Behind Patent Trolls, is Still Engaging in Patent Extortion
  • 01.24.18 Microsoft Financially Backs Patent Trolls That Attack Its Competitors
  • 02.26.18 Marketing and Lobbying Disguised as ‘Articles’ and Microsoft-Connected Firms That Promote Software Patents and a Microsoft Racket
  • 03.04.18 Microsoft Should be Subjected to Antitrust Action For an Extensive Network of Patent Blackmail, But With a Lobbyist in Charge (Trump Appointee) Don’t Hold Your Breath
  • 03.22.18 Aggressive New Activities of Microsoft-Connected Patent Trolls: Finjan, Intellectual Ventures, and Dominion Harbor
  • 03.25.18 Multiple Microsoft-Funded Patent Trolls Are Attacking Microsoft’s Rivals Inside and Outside the Courtrooms
  • 05.05.18 Microsoft/Intellectual Ventures: Still Pairing to Tax the Entire World With Patent Lawsuits and Extortion
  • 05.05.18 Post-Alice, Using Software Patents, Microsoft-Backed Patent Troll Finjan Continues Suing Microsoft’s Competitors
  • 06.05.18 Microsoft’s Patent Trolls Continue to Attack Microsoft’s Rivals, Including These Companies’ Use of Free/Open Source Software
  • 06.09.18 A Post-TC Heartland (and Post-Alice) Patent System is Bad if Not Fatal News to Patent Trolls Like Microsoft’s Intellectual Ventures
  • 06.17.18 Microsoft is Still ‘Cybermobbing’ Its Competition Using Patent Trolls Such as Finjan
  • 07.15.18 ‘Blockchain’, ‘Cloud’ and Whatever Else Gets Exploited to Work Around 35 U.S.C. § 101 (or the EPC) and Patent Algorithms/Software
  • 08.05.18 Understanding of Microsoft’s Patent Strategy Requires Scrutiny of the Patent Trolls It’s Connected to
  • 09.09.18 On Virnetx, Intellectual Ventures, Interval Licensing and Other Microsoft-Connected Patent Trolls That Microsoft Leverages to Attack Its Competition
  • 09.16.18 Patent Trolls Are Still Active and Microsoft is Closely Connected to Many of Them
  • 09.23.18 Patents Stranger Than Fiction and ‘Protection’ From Fictional Things
  • 09.23.18 Open Invention Network is Rendered Obsolete in the Wake of Alice and It’s Not Even Useful in Combating Microsoft’s Patent Trolls
  • 10.04.18 Microsoft’s Patent Trolls Are Alive and Well, Seeding Destruction Among Microsoft’s Competition
  • 10.05.18 Microsoft Uses LOT Network to Spread Lies and Promote Its Protection Racket
  • 10.10.18 Open Invention Network is a Proponent of Software Patents — Just Like Microsoft — and Microsoft Keeps Patents It Uses to Blackmail Linux Vendors
  • 10.17.18 Ask OIN How It Intends to Deal With Microsoft Proxies Such as Patent Trolls
  • 10.21.18 Data Engine Technologies (DET) Just One Among Many Microsoft-Connected Patent Trolls That Pick on Microsoft’s Biggest Competitors
  • 10.26.18 Microsoft’s Largest Patent Troll, Operating Through Shell Entities, Broadens Extortion Campaign in Eastern Texas
  • 10.30.18 IBM- and Microsoft-Backed Patent Troll Strikes Again and IBM’s Lobbyist for Software Patents Has Just Defended Patent Trolls (Again)
  • 11.08.18 Microsoft is Supporting Patent Trolls, Still. New Leadership at USPTO Gives Room for Concern.
  • 11.09.18 With Patent Trolls Like Finjan and Blackbird Tech out There, Microsoft in OIN Does Not Mean Safety
  • 11.19.18 A Fresh Look at Recent 35 U.S.C. § 101 Cases Reveals Rapid Demise of Software Patents Even in District (Lower) Courts
  • 01.06.19 Microsoft Lost the Server Wars to GNU/Linux, But That Doesn’t Mean Microsoft is Now Benign/Ignorable
  • 01.06.19 Unified Patents Goes After Patent Trolls Funded and Armed (Given Patents) by Microsoft
  • 02.06.19 The Evolution of Microsoft Embracing Python Like a Python Snake
  • 02.11.19 Microsoft’s Patent Trolls Are Still Suing Microsoft’s Rivals to Help Sell Microsoft
  • 02.16.19 WSL is a Misleading Acronym/Name Because There’s No Linux in It, It’s Just Windows
  • 02.28.19 The US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) Will Waste No Time on Section 101. It Will, However, Waste Its Time on Obvious Patent Trolls.
  • 03.31.19 Microsoft ‘Bought’ the LOT Network Like it Did the ‘Linux’ Foundation and It’s Now, as a Result, Yet Another Microsoft PR Front
  • 04.16.19 GNU/Linux is Being Eaten Alive by Large Corporations With Their Agenda
  • 04.18.19 Freedom is Not a Business and Those Who Make ‘Business’ by Giving it Away Deserve Naming
  • 04.21.19 A Reader’s Suggestion: Directions for Techrights
  • 05.12.19 Microsoft Would Kill the Goose for Money
  • 05.12.19 The Microsoft Guide to the Open Source Galaxy
  • 05.19.19 South Korea’s Government Will Show If Microsoft Loves Linux or Just Attacks It Very Viciously Like It Did in Munich


  • 10.30.08 Links 30/10/2008: More Adopters of Android, Asia and EU Push for Free Software
  • 11.13.08 Links 13/11/2008: Cuba on Route to GNU/Linux, KDE 4.2 Raves
  • 03.02.09 Links 02/03/2009: Red Hat and Oracle Dispute Returns
  • 08.26.09 Links 26/08/2009: Ubuntu’s Firefox and JPEG 2000
  • 09.04.09 Links 04/09/2009: New Wine, Mesa, Lubuntu
  • 11.20.09 Links 20/11/2009: EVO Game Console is Out, Firefox 3.6 Beta 3
  • 12.29.09 Links 29/12/2009: GNU/Linux for Kerala Legislators, Monty Still Rushes Against Oracle
  • 01.25.10 Links 25/1/2010: NZ School Switches to GNU/Linux, KDE Software Compilation 4.4 Reaches RC2
  • 04.08.10 Links 8/4/2010: Linux Probably Back to the PS3, Ubuntu GNU/Linux Users @ ~12 Million
  • 04.15.10 Links 15/4/2010: Linux Foundation’s Collaboration Summit, Dragora Linux 2.0, ZEN-mini 2010
  • 09.05.10 Links 5/9/2010: KDE SC 4.5 Coverage, Systemd in Fedora 14, Debian 7.0 Named
  • 10.04.10 Links 4/10/2010: Codenames Needed for Fedora 15 , Linux-based Palm ‘Mansion’ Rumoured
  • 10.08.10 Links 8/10/2010: Linux Tablet Price Goes Down Under $200, Fedora 14 Beta Preview
  • 12.25.10 Links 25/12/2010: New Ubuntu-powered Tablet, Firefox 4 is Near, GnuCash 2.4.0 Released
  • 04.21.11 Links 21/4/2011: Choqok 1.1 Released, Fedora 15 Beta and GNOME 3
  • 05.17.11 Links 17/5/2011: More GNOME 3 Mockups, Groklaw Interviews
  • 06.25.11 Links 25/6/2011: More Linux in Airlines, More Patent News
  • 08.20.11 Links 20/8/2011: Linux Graphics Survey, Firefox 7 Beta
  • 09.01.11 Links 1/9/2011: Beta of GNOME 3.2, Ubuntu Core
  • 01.03.12 Links 3/1/2012: Gentoo 12.1 LiveDVD, Red Hat to Hire a Thousand
  • 01.04.12 Links 4/1/2012: Mozilla Public License 2.0, Pear OS Linux Debian Edition
  • 01.15.12 Links 15/1/2012: Wine 1.3.37, Fedora Contest
  • 03.20.12 Links 20/3/2012: Cyanogenmod 7.2, Humble Android Bundle 2, OSI’s New Board
  • 04.11.12 Links 11/4/2012: Linux 3.4 RC2, Red Hat Storage 2.0 Beta, Kubuntu Finds New Sponsor
  • 05.14.12 Links 14/5/2012: Linux Kernel 3.3.5, Wine 1.5.4
  • 06.11.12 Links 11/6/2012: Wine 1.5.6, Project Magenta Uses Linux
  • 06.14.12 Links 14/6/2012: Linux 3.5 RC2 is Out, Linus Gets Award
  • 06.16.12 Links 16/6/2012: Deploying Chromebooks, New Mandriva Foundation
  • 06.27.12 Links 27/6/2012: Google Tablet, CyanogenMod 7.2 & 9 RC1
  • 08.11.12 Links 11/8/2012: GNOME OS, OSI for Internet Freedom
  • 11.06.12 Links 6/11/2012: OEMs Explore Linux (HP Included), Linux 3.7 RC4 is Out, Red Hat Explores China, GNOME 3.8 Features Outlined
  • 01.08.13 Links 9/1/2013: Valve’s GNU/Linux Gaming PC, Android Massive at CES
  • 02.27.13 Links 27/2/2013: Firefox Phone Partners, DistroRank
  • 05.11.13 Links 11/5/2013: Ubuntu Deviation (DEB), Debian Celebrations
  • 06.12.13 Links 12/6/2013: Linux 3.11 Previews, KDE Working in Wayland
  • 06.25.13 Links 25/6/2013: Zorin OS 7, Linux Mint 15 KDE RC
  • 12.13.13 Links 13/12/2013: Linux (Kernel) News
  • 05.01.14 Links 1/5/2014: Tails in the News, Firefox 29 Reviews
  • 05.22.14 Links 23/5/2014: Linux 3.15 RC6, KDE Previews
  • 06.01.14 Links 1/6/2014: Two Linux Mint Releases, New NSA Leaks From Risen
  • 10.02.14 Links 2/10/2014: Kano Brings GNU/Linux to Education, Fedora 21 Desktop Matures
  • 10.28.14 Links 28/10/2014: SUSE Linux Enterprise 12, Canonical OpenStack Distro
  • 12.10.14 Links 10/12/2014: Fedora 21, Ubuntu Core
  • 12.11.14 Links 11/12/2014: systemd 218, Empire Total War
  • 12.16.14 Links 16/12/2014: Google and ODF, Civilization: Beyond Earth Comes to GNU/Linux
  • 12.21.14 Links 22/12/2014: GNU/Linux at Sky News, Another Tizen Camera
  • 01.12.15 Links 12/1/2015: Linux Mint 17.1 Xfce, Linux 3.19 RC4
  • 01.15.15 Links 15/1/2015: KDE Releases, Ubuntu Phone Delays
  • 01.20.15 Links 20/1/2015: Linux 3.19 RC5, 30 Years of FSF
  • 02.12.15 Links 12/2/2015: Black Lab Linux KDE Edition, Android SmartWatches
  • 02.13.15 Links 13/2/2015: Krita 2.9 and Calligra 2.9 Betas, Ubuntu in Drones
  • 02.18.15 Links 18/2/2015: Linux Report, FlightGear 3.4
  • 02.24.15 Links 24/2/2015: Xfce 4.12 a Week Away, GNOME 3.16 Previewed
  • 05.12.15 Links 12/5/2015: Jailhouse 0.5, KDE Applications 15.04.1
  • 05.19.15 Links 19/5/2015: Linux 4.1 RC4, Thunderbird 31.7.0, OpenStack Event
  • 06.09.15 Links 10/6/2015: BQ’s Second Ubuntu Phone on Sale, Desura and Bankruptcy
  • 06.11.15 Links 11/6/2015: Linux in DARPA Robotics Challenge, Fedora 22 Scientific
  • 09.21.15 Links 21/9/2015: Tizen 3.0, Red Hat’s Results Coming
  • 10.02.15 Links 2/10/2015: Qubes 3.0, Linux.Wifatch
  • 10.18.15 Links 18/10/2015: OpenBSD 5.8 Released, OpenBSD 20th Birthday
  • 10.27.15 Links 27/10/2015: KDevelop 5.0.0 Beta 1, GParted 0.24
  • 10.28.15 Links 28/10/2015: Xiaomi’s GNU/Linux Laptops and OpenStack’s Massive Expansion
  • 11.08.15 Links 8/11/2015: 1,600 Games in Valve’s Steam for GNU/Linux, MiniDebconf Cambridge
  • 11.10.15 Links 10/11/2015: International Space Station Uses GNU/Linux, TensorFlow Liberated
  • 11.12.15 Links 12/11/2015: Ubuntu Community Council Election, Fedora Goes for Wayland
  • 11.20.15 Links 20/11/2015: DockerCon EU, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2
  • 11.26.15 Links 26/11/2015: The $5 Raspberry Pi Zero, Running Sans Systemd Gets Hard
  • 12.02.15 Links 2/12/2015: Microsoft and Debian, Thunderbird’s Fate
  • 12.05.15 Links 6/12/2015: CoreOS News, MediaTek Development Platform
  • 12.08.15 Links 8/12/2015: Chromebooks Rising, KDE Plasma 5.5
  • 12.09.15 Links 9/12/2015: Linux Foundation Endorses PRISM, End for Firefox OS
  • 12.10.15 Links 10/12/2015: Many New Kernels, Mesa 11.0.7, elementary OS 0.3.2, PINE 64
  • 12.12.15 Links 12/12/2015: Mozilla Funds for FOSS, Rust 1.5
  • 12.14.15 Links 14/12/2015: KDE Frameworks 5.17.0, ‘Referendum’ on GPL Enforcement
  • 12.15.15 Links 15/12/2015: CentOS Linux 7 1511, Enlightenment DR 0.20.1
  • 12.23.15 Links 23/12/2015: Plasma 5.5.2, Wine-Staging 1.8
  • 12.24.15 Links 24/12/2015: Manjaro Linux 15.12, Black Lab 7.0.2
  • 01.05.16 Links 5/1/2016: NVIDIA Shows Linux Some Love, Black Lab Enterprise Linux 8.0 DP3
  • 01.06.16 Links 6/1/2016: CES Focus, Firefox OS in Panasonic UHD TVs
  • 01.18.16 Links 18/1/2016: AsteroidOS With GNU, NetworkManager 1.2
  • 01.19.16 Links 19/1/2016: qBittorrent 3.3.2, Manjaro Linux 15.12
  • 01.20.16 Links 20/1/2016: Brave Software’s New Browser, GitHub Under Fire
  • 01.24.16 Links 24/1/2016: Linux 4.5 RC1, Debian 8.3 Released
  • 01.27.16 Links 27/1/2016: Tails 2.0, GPUOpen
  • 01.29.16 Links 29/1/2016: Controversy at the Linux Foundation, Tor Browser 5.5
  • 01.30.16 Links 30/1/2016: Neptune 4.5, *buntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus Alpha 2
  • 02.03.16 Links 3/2/2016: Dell GNU/Linux Laptop, Wine 1.8.1
  • 02.18.16 Links 18/2/2016: New Ubuntu Phone, Go 1.6
  • 02.19.16 Links 19/2/2016: Samsung’s ARTIK, ZFS in Ubuntu 16.04
  • 02.21.16 Links 21/2/2016: Linux Mint Web Site Breaches, MWC 2016
  • 02.24.16 Links 24/2/2016: Wine-Staging 1.9.4, CaffeOnSpark
  • 02.28.16 Links 28/2/2016: Raspberry Pi 3, Copyleft Fights
  • 03.07.16 Links 7/3/2016: New Linux RC, Firefox in Devices
  • 03.11.16 Links 11/3/2016: LibreOffice 5.1.1, Android N Previews/Analysis
  • 03.15.16 Links 15/3/2016: RapidDisk 4.0, Google Summer of Code 2016 Applications
  • 03.21.16 Links 21/3/2016: PAYDAY 2 for GNU/Linux, PDFBox v2.0
  • 04.07.16 Links 7/4/2016: Ubuntu Touch OTA-10, MariaDB Improvements
  • 04.14.16 Links 14/4/2016: Muktware Returns, Google Chrome 50 Released
  • 04.19.16 Links 19/4/2016: Kali Linux Rolling Release, PCLOS Reviewed
  • 04.20.16 Links 20/4/2016: Wine-Staging 1.9.8, Intel Layoffs
  • 04.21.16 Links 21/4/2016: KDE Applications 16.04, New *buntu LTS Releases
  • 04.25.16 Links 25/4/2016: Kodi 16.1, OpenStack Summit
  • 04.27.16 Links 27/4/2016: A Lot About OpenStack, Vivaldi 1.1 Released
  • 04.29.16 Links 29/4/2016: GNOME 3.21.1, Fairphone
  • 05.20.16 Links 20/5/2016: Purism Tablet, ChromeOS PCs Outsell ‘Mac’-Branded PCs
  • 05.26.16 Links 26/5/2016: CentOS Linux 6.8, Ansible 2.1
  • 05.27.16 Links 27/5/2016: Android for Raspberry Pi, Google Beats Oracle in Court
  • 05.28.16 Links 28/5/2016: Wine 1.9.11, New Gentoo
  • 06.07.16 Links 7/6/2016: Manjaro Linux 16.06, Firefox 47.0
  • 06.10.16 Links 10/6/2016: Maru OS, Fedora 24 Delayed
  • 06.12.16 Links 12/6/2016: Chromebooks EoL, Android N Release Date
  • 06.15.16 Links 15/6/2016: Git 2.9, Habitat
  • 06.18.16 Links 18/6/2016: KDE Plasma 5.7 Beta, Robolinux 8.5
  • 06.19.16 Links 19/6/2016: Randa Over, Fedora 24 Release Soon
  • 06.21.16 Links 21/6/2016: Fedora 24 and Point Linux MATE 3.2 Officially Released
  • 06.24.16 Links 24/6/2016: Xen Project 4.7, Cinnamon 3.0.6
  • 06.26.16 Links 26/6/2016: IceCat 38.8.0, Wine 1.9.13
  • 06.27.16 Links 27/6/2016: Linux 4.7 RC 5, OpenMandriva Lx 3.0 Beta 2
  • 07.01.16 Links 1/7/2016: Enlightenment 0.21.0, Peppermint 7, New Mint
  • 07.07.16 Links 7/7/2016: New Information About Ian Murdock, New Snap Desktop Launchers
  • 07.08.16 Links 8/7/2016: Kubernetes 1.3, New Linux Foundation Events
  • 07.15.16 Links 15/7/2016: GIMP 2.8.18, EIF v. 3, Pyston 0.5.1
  • 07.16.16 Links 15/7/2016: Microsoft Playing Dirty, GNOME Maps Problems
  • 07.18.16 Links 18/7/2016: Vista 10 a Failure, FreeType 2.7
  • 07.25.16 Links 25/7/2016: Linux 4.7 Final, PostgreSQL 9.6 Beta 3
  • 07.29.16 Links 29/7/2016: More Microsoft Problems and Layoffs, Bodhi Linux 4.0.0 Alpha Released
  • 07.29.16 Links 28/7/2016: CORD as Linux Foundation Project, Wine 1.9.15 Released
  • 08.02.16 Links 2/8/2016: Chrome 52 and Firefox 48 Released
  • 08.03.16 Links 3/8/2016: KDE Plasma 5.7.3, DragonFly 4.6 Released
  • 08.04.16 Links 4/8/2016: Microsoft Wiping Dual Boot (Linux) Partitions
  • 08.16.16 Links 16/8/2016: White House Urged by EFF on FOSS, Go 1.7 Released
  • 08.19.16 Links 19/8/2016: Linux Mint With KDE, Linux Foundation’s PNDA
  • 09.14.16 Links 14/9/2016: Arya.ai’s Braid, MySQL Exploit Patched
  • 09.15.16 Links 15/9/2016: CUPS 2.2, Copyright Undermines European Internet Users
  • 09.17.16 Links 17/9/2016: Debian 8.6 Released, More Microsoft Layoffs and Dead Products
  • 09.23.16 Links 23/9/2016: Latest Microsoft and Lenovo Spin (Now in ‘Damage Control’ Mode)
  • 09.25.16 Links 25/9/2016: Linux 4.7.5, 4.4.22; LXQt 0.11
  • 10.11.16 Links 11/10/2016: Torvalds’ ARM Rant, End of Production of Galaxy Note 7
  • 10.30.16 Links 30/10/2016: Lenovo Surrenders to Linux, Bodhi Linux 4.0.0 Released
  • 11.02.16 Links 2/11/2016: Fedora 25 Final Freeze, Minoca OS Under GPL
  • 11.04.16 Links 4/11/2016: Qt 5.8 Beta, New Systemd
  • 11.06.16 Links 6/11/2016: Vista 10 Plagued With Ads, Linux 4.9 Now in RC4
  • 11.08.16 Links 8/11/2016: SUSE Release, Android Distribution Stats
  • 11.15.16 Links 15/11/2016: “498 out of 500 of the Speediest Computers on the Planet Are Running Linux”
  • 11.17.16 Links 17/11/2016: OpenSUSE Leap 42.2, Microsoft E.E.E. on Linux
  • 11.27.16 Links 27/11/2016: Linux 4.8.11, Linux 4.4.35, and Distrowatch Rankings
  • 11.28.16 Links 28/11/2016: X-Plane 11 Beta, Early Work For C++20, Microsoft Hole in RHEL
  • 12.02.16 Links 2/12/2016: Mint Betas, Chrome 55, KDevelop 5.0.3, PHP 7.1.0
  • 12.05.16 Links 5/12/2016: Linux 4.9 RC 8, DeepMind as FOSS
  • 12.07.16 Links 7/12/2016: ROSA Desktop Fresh R8 Plasma 5, Ubuntu Touch OTA-14
  • 01.05.17 Links 5/1/2017: Inkscape 0.92, GNU Sed 4.3
  • 01.10.17 Links 10/1/2017: Synfig 1.2, Kodachi Linux 3.7
  • 01.18.17 Links 18/1/2017: Red Hat’s OpenShift 3.4, Mozilla’s New Logo/Branding
  • 01.19.17 Links 19/1/2017: PulseAudio 10.0, Linux 4.9 Longterm Kernel
  • 01.20.17 Links 20/1/2017: Docker 1.13, Linux 4.4.44 LTS
  • 02.01.17 Links 1/2/2017: LibreOffice 5.3 Officially Released
  • 02.02.17 Links 2/2/2017: darktable 2.2.3, Krita 3.1.2 Released
  • 02.17.17 Links 17/2/2017: Wine 2.2, New Ubuntu LTS
  • 02.22.17 Links 22/2/2017: Wine-Staging 2.2, Nautilus 3.24
  • 03.17.17 Links 17/3/2017: ‘Guetzli’ JPEG Encoder, Updates From Munich
  • 03.21.17 Links 21/3/2017: PyPy Releases, Radeon RX Vega, Eileen Evans at Linux Foundation
  • 03.24.17 Links 24/3/2017: Microsoft Aggression, Eudyptula Challenge Status Report
  • 03.28.17 Links 28/3/2017: Linux 4.11-rc4 Kernel Released, Red Hat Surge on Sales
  • 03.29.17 Links 29/3/2017: End of Linux Action Show, Top NSA Partner Pays Linux Foundation
  • 04.03.17 Links 3/4/2017: Linux 4.11 RC5, Mesa 17.0.3, GTK+ 3.90.0
  • 04.12.17 Links 12/4/2017: Snap Lands in Fedora, OpenBSD 6.1 Released
  • 04.13.17 Links 13/4/2017: Nginx 1.12, GNOME 3.24.1 Released; Mark Shuttleworth Back to CEO Role
  • 04.24.17 Links 24/4/2017: Linux 4.11 RC8, MPV 0.25
  • 05.01.17 Links 1/5/2017: Krita 3.1.3, feren OS 2017.0, Android Widens Gap Over Windows
  • 05.12.17 Links 12/5/2017: Wine 2.8, Kdenlive 17.04.1, NHS Windows Syndrome
  • 05.31.17 Links 1/6/2017: KDE Plasma 5.10, Qt 5.9 Released
  • 06.08.17 Links 8/6/2017: Chrome 59, Tor Browser 7.0
  • 06.14.17 Links 14/6/2017: New BlackArch Linux ISO and Q4OS 1.8.6, Orion
  • 06.23.17 Links 23/6/2017: Wine 2.11 Released, HPC Domination by GNU/Linux
  • 06.24.17 Links 24/6/2017: GNOME Music Improves, FreeBSD 11.1 Beta 3
  • 06.30.17 Links 30/6/2017: Ubuntu 17.10 Alpha 1, Mozilla Employee Denied Entry to the United States
  • 07.04.17 Links 4/7/2017: Market Share Debate is Back, Libinput 1.8 Released
  • 07.12.17 Links 12/7/2017: Fabric 1.0, Wine Staging 2.12, Exo 0.11.4
  • 07.21.17 Links 21/7/2017: New Wine, Ubuntu EoL
  • 07.25.17 Links 25/7/2017: KStars 2.8.0 is Out, Flash Will Die
  • 07.27.17 Links 27/7/2017: Wine Staging 2.13, Fedora 27 Schedule, FreeBSD 11.1
  • 07.28.17 Links 28/7/2017: Suricata 4.0, QML vs. HTML5, LibreOffice 5.4
  • 08.10.17 Links 10/8/2017: Tails 3.1, GhostBSD 11.1 Alpha
  • 08.11.17 Links 11/8/2017: Atom 1.19, LLVM 5.0 RC2
  • 08.16.17 Links 16/8/2017: Ardour 5.11, 24th Birthday of Debian
  • 08.17.17 Links 17/8/2017: Krita 3.2.0, New Raspbian GNU/Linux OS
  • 08.20.17 Links 20/8/2017: KStars 2.8.1, Fedora Design Interns
  • 08.25.17 Links 25/8/2017: GIMP 2.9.6 Released, SUSE Cushions Btrfs
  • 08.29.17 Links 29/8/2017: Bodhi Linux 4.3.0, FSFE’s Digital-O-Mat for Germany
  • 08.30.17 Links 30/8/2017: New Stable Kernels, Paper on Security Record of Free Software
  • 09.05.17 Links 5/9/2017: Mesa 17.2, Qt Creator 4.4
  • 09.07.17 Links 7/9/2017: GNOME 3.26 RC 2, LLVM 5.0.0, GnuCOBOL 2.2 Releases
  • 09.11.17 Links 11/9/2017: GNU/Linux Preinstalled (Many New Options), New Stable Kernels, Mesa 17.1.9, Oracle Linux 7 Update 4
  • 09.14.17 Links 14/9/2017: Plasma 5.11 Beta, Q4OS 1.8.8, Orion
  • 09.15.17 Links 15/9/2017: Mesa 17.2.1 RC, Wine 2.17, WordPress to Ditch React Over Patents
  • 09.19.17 Links 19/9/2017: Pipewire, Mir Support for Wayland, DRM in W3C
  • 09.21.17 Links 21/9/2017: Red Hat’s Open Source Patent Promise; Qt 5.6.3, Kali Linux 2017.2 Release
  • 09.23.17 Links 23/9/2017: Mesa 17.1.10 RC, Samba 4.7.0, KStars 2.8.4
  • 09.24.17 Links 25/9/2017: XFree KWin, FreeBSD 10.4 RC2
  • 09.26.17 Links 26/9/2017: Ataribox runs GNU/Linux, Firefox Quantum, Microsoft Pays OSI
  • 09.28.17 Links 29/9/2017: Krita 3.3.0, Tails 3.2, Amos Yee is Free
  • 10.04.17 Links 4/10/2017: OpenSSH 7.6, Mesa 17.2.2, FreeBSD 10.4
  • 10.13.17 Links 13/10/2017: X.Org Server 1.19.5, pfSense 2.4, Final Stages of Ubuntu 17.10
  • 11.01.17 Links 1/11/2017: Wine 2.20, Cutelyst 1.10.0, F1 2017 Coming
  • 11.02.17 Links 2/11/2017: Valve Survey, MariaDB Funding
  • 11.03.17 Links 3/11/2017: IPFire 2.19 is Out, Black Duck to Vanish
  • 11.07.17 Links 7/11/2017: Krita 4.0 Development Update, Apache Kafka Reaches 1.0, Apache OpenOffice Revisited
  • 11.11.17 Links 11/11/2017: Mesa 17.2.5 and Wine 2.21 Released
  • 11.16.17 Links 16/11/2017: WordPress 4.9 and GhostBSD 11.1 Released
  • 11.16.17 Links 16/11/2017: Tails 3.3, Deepin 15.5 Beta
  • 12.07.17 Links 7/12/2017: Qt 5.10, ReactOS 0.4.7, Guix and GuixSD 0.14.0
  • 12.11.17 Links 11/12/2017: Linux 4.15 RC3, Debian 8.10 and Debian 9.3
  • 12.17.17 Links 17/12/2017: KStars 2.8.9, GNOME 3.27.3, Parrot Security 3.10
  • 01.11.18 Links 11/1/2018: City of Barcelona Moves to GNU/Linux, Julian Assange Becomes Ecuadorian
  • 01.12.18 Links 12/1/2018: New *buntu ISOs. KDE Applications 17.12.1
  • 01.16.18 Links 16/1/2018: More on Barcelona, OSI at 20
  • 01.18.18 Links 18/1/2018: MenuLibre 2.1.4, Git 2.16 Released
  • 02.01.18 Links 1/2/2018: Linux Journal 2.0, Microsoft’s $6.3B Loss, AtCore 1.0.0
  • 02.12.18 Links 12/2/2018: Linux 4.16 RC1, ZFS Back in Focus
  • 02.21.18 Links 21/2/2018: Apper 1.0, New Fedora ISOs
  • 02.24.18 Links 24/2/2018: Npm Bug, Mycroft AI on Plasma
  • 02.27.18 Links 27/2/2018: Linux 4.16 RC3, Wayland 1.15 Alpha, Mesa 17.3.6
  • 03.17.18 Links 17/3/2018: Varnish 6, Wine 3.4
  • 03.21.18 Links 21/3/2018: Cutelyst 2, More on webOS
  • 03.22.18 Links 22/3/2018: Mesa 17.3.7, Mesa 18.0.0 RC5, RawTherapee 5.4, Krita 4
  • 03.26.18 Links 26/3/2018: Linux 4.16 RC7, Slax 9.4
  • 03.28.18 Links 28/3/2018: Mesa 18.0.0, Kubernetes 1.10, Heads 0.4, GIMP 2.10 RC1
  • 04.03.18 Links 3/4/2018: OpenSSH 7.7, Cutelyst 2.1 and Fedora 28 Beta Released
  • 04.07.18 Links 8/4/2018: KDE Applications 18.04 Release Candidate, Features Approval For Fedora 29
  • 04.11.18 Links 11/4/2018: Linux 3.18.104, ReactOS 0.4.8 Release
  • 04.12.18 Links 12/4/2018: Stable New Kernels, Neptune 5.1
  • 04.14.18 Links 14/4/2018: Wine 3.6, KDE Elisa 0.1
  • 04.17.18 Links 17/4/2018: Linux 5.x Plans and Microsoft’s ‘Embrace’
  • 04.18.18 Links 18/4/2018: New Fedora 27 ISOs, Nextcloud Wins German Government Contract
  • 04.19.18 Links 19/4/2018: Mesa 17.3.9 and 18.0.1, Trisquel 8.0 LTS Flidas, Elections for openSUSE Board
  • 04.20.18 Links 20/4/2018: Atom 1.26, MySQL 8.0
  • 04.21.18 Links 21/4/2018: Linux 4.9.95, FFmpeg 4.0, OpenBSD Foundation 2018 Fundraising Campaign
  • 04.24.18 Links 24/4/2018: Preview of Crostini, Introducing Heptio Gimbal, OPNsense 18.1.6
  • 04.27.18 Links 27/4/2018: Cutelyst 2.2.0, OpenSUSE Tumbleweed Updates, Fedora 28 Coming Soon and New *Ubuntu Releases
  • 04.28.18 Links 28/4/2018: Wine 3.7 Released, FigOS 2.8, GIMP 2.10
  • 05.02.18 Links 2/5/2018: Focus on New Ubuntu and Fedora, Deb Nicholson joins Conservancy
  • 05.03.18 Links 3/5/2018: Cinnamon 3.8 and GCC 8.1 Released
  • 05.04.18 Links 4/5/2018: Kubernetes and GSoC in Headlines
  • 05.07.18 Links 7/5/2018: Linux 4.17 RC4 and Mesa 18.0.3
  • 05.08.18 Links 8/5/2018: Red Hat’s Event and Microsoft Openwashing
  • 05.09.18 Links 9/5/2018: Firefox 60 and CrossOver 17.5
  • 05.10.18 Links 10/5/2018: Battle for Wesnoth 1.14, Tails 3.7, Devuan 2.0 RC
  • 05.11.18 Links 11/5/2018: New CentOS, X.Org Server 1.20, Rust 1.26, Krita 4.0.2, Cutelyst 2.3.0 and Kdenlive 18.04.1
  • 05.15.18 Links 15/5/2018: Black Duck’s Latest FUD and the EFF’s EFFail FUD Debunked Further
  • 05.19.18 Links 19/5/2018: Mesa 18.0.4 and Vim 8.1
  • 05.22.18 Links 22/5/2018: Parrot 4.0, Spectre Number 4
  • 05.28.18 Links 28/5/2018: Linux 4.17 RC7, Fedora 26 EOL Soon
  • 05.31.18 Links 31/5/2018: Many Stable Kernels, Cutelyst 2.4.0, Cockpit 169, MAAS 2.4.0, Rust 1.26.1
  • 06.05.18 Links 5/6/2018: Jailhouse 0.9, Libinput 1.11, Qt Creator 4.7 Beta, Oracle Lays Off Java Mission Control Team
  • 06.07.18 Links 7/6/2018: ​Buildah 1.0 and Mozilla’s Voice Collection
  • 06.10.18 Links 10/6/2018: Devuan ASCII 2.0.0 and Tails 3.7.1
  • 06.20.18 Links 20/6/2018: Qt 5.11.1, Oracle Solaris 11.3 SRU 33, HHVM 3.27.0, Microsoft Helping ICE
  • 06.21.18 Links 21/6/2018: Microsoft’s ‘Damage Control’ Amid Role in ICE Scandals, 11-Hour Azure Downtime (Again), GNOME 3.29.3, and More GNU/Linux Wins
  • 06.23.18 Links 23/6/2018: Kodi 18 Alpha 2, Peppermint 9, Wine 3.11
  • 06.26.18 Links 26/6/2018: New Firefox and Stable Kernels
  • 06.27.18 Links 27/6/2018: ​Supercomputers All GNU/Linux, Kubernetes 1.11, Plasma 5.13.2
  • 06.30.18 Links 30/6/2018: Linux 4.16 EoL, Gentoo Crack, Linux Mint Release
  • 07.18.18 Links 18/7/2018: System76′s Manufacturing Facility, Microsoft-Led Lobby for Antitrust Against Android
  • 07.19.18 Links 19/7/2018: Krita 4.1.1, Qt Creator 4.7.0, and Microsoft-Led Lobby Against Android in EU
  • 07.21.18 Links 20/7/2018: MusicBrainz is Back, Microsoft Pushing .NET Through Canonical
  • 07.22.18 Links 22/7/2018: Neptune 5.4, NetBSD 8.0
  • 07.25.18 Links 25/7/2018: Ubuntu 18.10′s New Community Theme, Slackware Creator ‘in Strife’
  • 07.26.18 Links 26/7/2018: Update of DTrace on Linux and Reasons for Migrating to Linux
  • 08.08.18 Links 8/8/2018: KDE Neon for Testing, New LibreOffice Release, Dart 2.0
  • 08.15.18 Links 15/8/2018: Akademy 2018 Wrapups and More Intel Defects
  • 08.20.18 Links 20/8/2018: Flatpak’s 1.0 Milestone, New GIMP, New Chinese Distro Releases
  • 08.21.18 Links 21/8/2018: deepin 15.7 and Git 2.19 RC
  • 08.23.18 Links 23/8/2018: Mesa 18.2 RC4 Released, Bodhi Linux 5.0.0 Released
  • 08.24.18 Links 24/8/2018: Intel’s Gag Backfires, Red Hat Takes Aim at VMware
  • 08.25.18 Links 25/8/2018: Go 1.11, LLVM 7.0 RC2
  • 08.30.18 Links 30/8/2018: Purism’s Chatty and HHVM 3.28.0
  • 09.05.18 Links 5/9/2018: New Releases of GNOME, Firefox and Chrome
  • 09.06.18 Links 6/9/2018: Mesa 18.2 RC6, GNOME 3.30, New Tails and Tor Browser 8.0
  • 09.07.18 Links 7/9/2018: Mesa 18.2, Akademy 2018 videos, OpenMandriva Lx 4.0 Alpha
  • 09.11.18 Links 11/9/2018: OpenSSL 1.1.1, Alpine Linux 3.8.1, Copyright Fight in EU
  • 09.17.18 Links 17/9/2018: Torvalds Takes a Break, SQLite 3.25.0 Released
  • 09.18.18 Links 18/9/2018: Qt 5.12 Alpha , MAAS 2.5.0 Beta, PostgreSQL CoC
  • 09.21.18 Links 21/9/2018: Cockpit 178, Purism ‘Dongle’
  • 09.26.18 Links 27/9/2018: KDE Neon, Linux Security Patches, and GNU Shepherd 0.5.0
  • 09.28.18 Links 28/9/2018: Kubernetes 1.12 Released, Intel DRM in Linux, Krita 4.1.3, Ubuntu Beta
  • 10.03.18 Links 3/10/2018: IBM Containers and Red Hat Announces Satellite 6.4
  • 10.04.18 Links 4/10/2018: Tails 3.9.1, Fedora 29 Gnome 3.30 Test Day Tomorrow
  • 10.06.18 Links 6/10/2018: Mageia 6.1, Qt 5.12 LTS Beta Released
  • 10.09.18 Links 9/10/2018: Plasma 5.14, Flatpak 1.2 Plan
  • 10.13.18 Links 13/10/2018: Ubuntu Touch OTA-5, MidnightBSD 1.0 Ready
  • 10.16.18 Links 1610/2018: Linux 4.19 RC8, Xfce Screensaver 0.1.0 Released
  • 10.17.18 Links 17/10/2018: Elementary OS 5.0 “Juno” Released, MongoDB’s Server Side Public Licence
  • 10.18.18 Links 18/10/2018: New Ubuntu and Postgres
  • 10.23.18 Links 23/10/2018: Mesa 18.3 Planned, RISC OS Adopts Apache Licence, Mozilla Firefox 63.0 Available
  • 10.27.18 Links 27/10/2018: Wine 3.19, Sparky 4.9 RC, GCC 6.5 Released
  • 10.31.18 Links 31/10/2018: Linux Lite 4.2 and GNOME 3.30.2 Officially Released
  • 11.02.18 Links 2/11/2018: System76 Thelio, Mesa 18.3 and Zchunk 1.0 Coming
  • 11.06.18 Links 6/11/2018: Neptune 5.6, Qubes OS 4.0.1 RC1 and Linux Kernel 4.20 RC1
  • 11.07.18 Links 7/11/2018: Fifteen Years of Fedora, ReactOS 0.4.10
  • 11.10.18 Links 10/11/2018: Mesa 18.3 RC2, ‘Linux on DeX’ Beta and Windows Breaking Itself Again
  • 11.13.18 Links 13/11/2018: HPC Domination (Top 500 All GNU/Linux) and OpenStack News
  • 11.18.18 Links 18/11/2018: Cucumber Linux 2.0 Alpha and Latest Outreachy
  • 11.20.18 Links 20/11/2018: Spectre Patch Ruins Linux, Total War: WARHAMMER II Comes to GNU/Linux
  • 11.21.18 Links 21/11/2018: Red Hat ‘Down Under’ and Microsoft Downtime
  • 11.22.18 Links 22/11/2018: More Microsoft Woes, Release of GNU Bison 3.2.2
  • 11.28.18 Links 28/11/2018: Red Hat Buys One Last Company, Mozilla’s Annual Report
  • 11.30.18 Links 30/11/2018: Mesa 18.3 RC5, Blender 2.8 Beta, Wine 3.0.4 Released
  • 12.08.18 Links 8/12/2018: Mesa 18.3.0, Mageia 7 Beta, WordPress 5.0
  • 12.11.18 Links 11/12/2018: Tails 3.11, New Firefox, FreeBSD 12.0
  • 12.12.18 Links 12/12/2018: Mesa 18.3.1 Released, CNCF Takes Control of etcd
  • 12.15.18 Links 15/12/2018: Cockpit 184, Vivaldi 2.2, Krita 4.1.7 Released
  • 12.19.18 Links 19/12/2018: VirtualBox 6.0, RawTherapee 5.5, Mir 1.1.0, LibreOffice 6.1.4 Released
  • 12.22.18 Links 22/12/2018: systemd 240, Wine 4.0 RC3, KDevelop 5.3.1 and KStars 3
  • 01.03.19 Links 3/1/2019: ‘Year of the Desktop’ and Many New Releases
  • 01.06.19 Links 6/1/2019: KBibTeX 0.8.2, Cloudera-Hortonworks Merger a Done Deal
  • 01.08.19 Links 8/1/2019: Godot 3.1 Reaches Beta, Tidelift Gets Money
  • 01.14.19 Links 14/1/2019: Linux 5.0 RC2 and DXVK 0.95 Released
  • 01.20.19 Links 20/1/2019: Exo 0.12.4 and Libhandy 0.0.7 Released
  • 01.26.19 Links 26/1/2019: Wine-Staging 4.0, MythTV 30.0 Released; Debian GNU/Linux 9.7 “Stretch”
  • 01.29.19 Links 29/1/2019: VirtualBox 6.0.4, New Firefox, KMyMoney 5.0.3, Flatpak 1.2
  • 01.30.19 Links 30/1/2019: Alpine 3.9.0 and Slax 9.7.0 Released
  • 02.01.19 Links 1/2/2019: Mesa 18.3.3, KTechLab 0.40.1, OPNsense 19.1, Glibc 2.29 Released; GNOME Shell Speed Boost
  • 02.04.19 Links 4/2/2019: GNU Binutils 2.32, Eclipse GlassFish 5.1 Released
  • 02.05.19 Links 5/2/2019: Wine 4.1, Nanonote 1.1.0, openSUSE Board Elections
  • 02.07.19 Links 7/2/2019: Cockpit 187, Hatari 2.2.0, GNOME 3.31.90, LibreOffice 6.2
  • 02.09.19 Links 9/2/2019: Linux 4.4.174 and GTK+ No More (Now Just GTK)
  • 02.13.19 Links 13/2/2019: Tails 3.12.1, MongoDB Being Dumped
  • 02.18.19 Links 18/2/2019: Linux 5.0 RC7, RISC-V Spreading Fast
  • 02.20.19 Links 20/2/2019: digiKam 6.0.0, Cockpit 188, Mesa 19.0 RC5
  • 02.22.19 Links 22/2/2019: GNOME 3.32 Beta 2 Released and Fedora 30 Flicker-Free Boot
  • 02.25.19 Links 25/2/2019: Linux 5.0 RC8 and Second Mageia 7 Beta
  • 02.28.19 Links 28/2/2019: KStars 3.1.0, Fedora IoT Docs Go Live, Devuan Developer Gathering
  • 03.01.19 Links 1/3/2019: Rust 1.33.0 and New Ubuntu LTS
  • 03.02.19 Links 2/3/2019: Alpine 3.9.1 and New Wine
  • 03.05.19 Links 5/3/2019: EasyOS Reviewed, Debian ‘Cloud’ Team
  • 03.09.19 Links 9/3/2019: International Women’s Day, QtLottie
  • 03.20.19 Links 20/3/2019: Google Announces ‘Stadia’, Tails 3.13
  • 03.24.19 Links 24/3/2019: Microsoft Does Not Change; Lots of FOSS Leftovers
  • 03.26.19 Links 26/3/2019: Python 3.7.3, New Copyright Nightmares
  • 04.02.19 Links 2/4/2019: Fedora 30 Beta, Django 2.2 Released
  • 04.05.19 Links 5/4/2019: Purism/PIA, GNUnet 0.11.2, Torvalds in Headlines Again
  • 04.07.19 Links 7/4/2019: DeaDBeeF 1.8.0, Valve Index VR Headset on Linux
  • 04.10.19 Links 10/4/2019: Microsoft’s GDPR Trouble, New Fedora 29 Images
  • 04.13.19 Links 13/4/2019: Wine 4.6 and Emacs 26.2 Released
  • 04.15.19 Links 15/4/2019: Linux 5.1 RC5 and SolydXK Reviewed
  • 04.18.19 Links 18/4/2019: Ubuntu and Derivatives Have Releases, digiKam 6.1.0, OpenSSH 8.0 and LibreOffice 6.2.3
  • 04.20.19 Links 20/4/2019: Weblate 3.6 and Pop!_OS 19.04
  • 04.21.19 Links 21/4/2019: SuperTuxKart’s 1.0 Release, Sam Hartman Is Debian’s Newest Project Leader (DPL)
  • 04.24.19 Links 24/4/2019: Chrome 74, QEMU 4.0 Released
  • 04.26.19 Links 26/4/2019: Best GNU/Linux Laptops and More
  • 05.02.19 Links 2/5/2019: GNU Guix Reaches 1.0, Airship 1.0, Rook 1.0 and Oracle Linux 8 Beta
  • 05.03.19 Links 3/5/2019: Sparky 4.10, FuguIta 6.5, GCC 9.1
  • 05.06.19 Links 6/5/2019: Linux 5.1, DXVK 1.1.1, Elisa 0.4 Beta
  • 05.07.19 Links 7/5/2019: GNU Linux-Libre 5.1, Tails 3.13.2, Sailfish OS Hossa, Firefox 66.0.4, LibreOffice 6.1.6
  • 05.09.19 Links 9/5/2019: Libinput 1.13.2 and man-pages-5.01
  • 05.09.19 Links 9/5/2019: Krita 4.2 Alpha, GNOME 3.32.2, Ubuntu Touch OTA-9
  • 05.11.19 Links 11/5/2019: Mesa 19.0.4, “2019 the Year of GNU/Linux on the Desktop”