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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 29, 2023,
updated Sep 29, 2023

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Richard Stallman's Public Talk in GNU's 40th Anniversary Ceremony
Out now
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Microsoft GitHub Exposé — In the Alex Graveley Case, His Lawyer, Rick Cofer, Appears to Have Bribed the DA to Keep Graveley (and Others) Out of Prison
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Links 28/09/2023: Preparing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.9 and 9.3 Beta
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Recent IRC Logs (Since Site Upgrade)
better late than never
Techrights Videos Will be Back Soon
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Microsoft is Faking Its Financial Performance, Buying Companies Helps Perpetuate the Big Lies (or Pass the Debt Around)
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Techrights Will Tell the Story (Until Next Year!) of How Since 2022 It Has Been Under a Coordinated Attack by a Horde of Vandals and Nutcases
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Google (and the Likes Of It) Will Cause Catastrophic Information Loss Rather Than Organise the World's Information
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Links 28/09/2023: GNOME 45 Release Party, 'Smart' Homes Orphaned
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Reprinted with permission from Ryan Farmer
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GNU is 40, Linux is Just 32
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Links 27/09/2023: GNOME Raves and Firefox 118
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Links 27/09/2023: 3G Phase-Out, Monopolies, and Exit of Rupert Murdoch
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IBM Took a Man’s Voice, Pitting Him Against His Own Work, While Companies Profit from Low-Effort Garbage Generated by Bots and “Self-Service”
Reprinted with permission from Ryan Farmer

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