Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux, Linux Weekly Roundup, Wildest Linux Stories
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Linux On Mobile ☛ 2023-12-30 [Older] Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (52/2023)
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Maarten van Gompel ☛ Do not Restrict Me! How copy protection (DRM) on e-books harms our freedom and what to do about it
Likewise, I can't just build an open e-reader software myself, say based on postmarketOS and SXMO, both of which have been successfully tried on a Kobo Clara HD, because it would not be able to open anything touched by DRM, making it pretty useless for the average consumer. I'd be very interested in trying if I can get something like this working on my Kobo Aura and read my books using our own Sxmo system! Or what if I wanted to build a search index to search in the text of all the books I own? If it were not for DRM, I could easily build this, but DRM makes would make me reliant on third-party proprietary software. Normal competition is stifled as the DRM provider act as a gatekeeper that demands the user can only access a crippled defective version of the actual product.
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Linux Made Simple ☛ 2023-12-31 [Older] Linux Weekly Roundup #267
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[Repeat] Bryan Lunduke ☛ 2023-12-30 [Older] The Wildest Linux Stories of 2023
The longest-running Linux company in the world, SUSE, has had one heck of a hard year. First, their CEO gets axed back in March (unexpectedly, with no replacement ready to take over) -- then we find out that the CEO had greenlit a number of "risky deals" for the company leading up to her termination.
Then, a few months later, the company announces their de-listing from the German Stock Exchange.
Bad business news, to be sure. But it gets worse. The community focused portion of SUSE -- the openSUSE project and Linux distribution -- made two of the strangest moves imaginable.
First, openSUSE went on the warpath against half of their users and contributors by declaring people with certain politics to be "Rotten Flesh" that needs to be "Cut out" [Warning: Political].
Then, openSUSE decided they wanted to ditch one of their best assets: their long-standing, beloved, and recognizable mascot.