Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 01, 2024

Updated This Past Day

1. Michael Moore (President of the Tribunal) and Patrick Frydman of the ILOAT Meet “Stakeholders” of the Court

   amici or what?

2. Eben Moglen Discusses GPLv3 and Patents: It Avoids or Prevents Companies Like Novell or IBM Making a Pact With the Invader (Microsoft)

   old video

3. Bruce Perens (Debian, OSI, Still a Friend of Richard Stallman) Is Very Unhappy About What IBM is Doing

   Sadly, the FSF failed to issue a statement on what IBM did to RHEL last year

4. Co-Creator of the Mozilla Organization Unhappy About What Mozilla Has Become

   Mozilla gets the thumbs down from its own makers

5. This Year and the Next 10 Years

   Novell is no longer around, but the same issues we spoke about in 2006 (18 years ago) remain unaddressed

6. [Video] Wikipedia is Perishing as an Authoritative Source, It's Being Overrun by Public Relations (PR) and Professional Propagandists

   The site any PR agency can edit

7. [Meme] Truth Hurts, Get Used to It

   we keep going

8. A Hint About Mass Layoffs This Month? What Microsoft's Former HR VP Chris Williams Says...

   published today

9. Paged Out! A One-Page Summary of What Software Patents Are (and Why They Should Not Even Exist)

   short outline

10. [Video] Taking Stock of the First Few Topics Covered This Year

    FOSS stories

11. [Meme] Our In-Depth EPO Coverage Turns 10

    getting back to EPO memes now

12. Geminispace Grew in 2023 (But Not by a Lot)

    Time will tell if Google has done enough damage - or googlebombing - to the brand

13. Richard Stallman's Article on Why to Avoid Twitter (Now 'X')

    As per his personal site, stallman.org

14. Links 01/01/2024: Cluster Bombs and Rising National Debts

    Links for the day

15. "They Aren't Really Red Hat Any Longer, They're IBM"

    'And of course they stopped distributing CentOS, and for a long time they've done something that I feel violates the GPL, and my defamation case was about another company doing the exact same thing: They tell you that if you are a RHEL customer, you can't disclose the GPL source for security patches that RHEL makes, because they won't allow you to be a customer any longer.'

16. IRC Proceedings: Sunday, December 31, 2023

    IRC logs for Sunday, December 31, 2023

17. A Year of Karma (and Truth)

    We need to properly expose how they operate behind the scenes and hold them accountable

18. "It's time to call these destructive companies out"

    power consolidation

19. Let's Hope 2024 Will be Better

    setting the expectations correctly helps avoid disappointments

20. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day