Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 27, 2024

Updated This Past Day

1. Microsoft Won't Need to Kill Red Hat Because IBM is Already Doing It (Corporate Suicide)

   Many comments critical of Arvind are deemed "racist" and removed, which is probably serving to justify IBM's choice of identity politics

2. The EPO's Central Staff Committee Explains the EPO Became So Corrupt That It Strives to Almost Automatically Grant Every Patent (Monopoly) Request

   Each time this is done deliberately by the management should be considered a serious white-collar crime, but at the EPO they flaunt diplomatic immunity as they destroy Europe for "profit" (we know whose)

3. Lots of Anti-Linux FUD This Week, Some of It is Microsoft- or Chatbot-Generated Spew

   The bad news is, we're seeing lots of anti-Linux trash this week in the media

4. Red Hat Publishes Windows Article, Omits Authors' Names

   In the past, Red Hat published Windows articles for Microsoft staff. We covered examples.

5. A Year Since the Big Switch - Part V - In Summary

   "The truth always finds its way out, even years and years and years later. The truth always prevails." -Tyler Hamilton

   New

6. [Meme] Break the Law for the European Patent Office (EPO) or Die (Get Sacked in a Terrible Economy)

   Europe's second-largest institution forces scientists to grant illegal monopolies to multinationals (or go broke)

7. Links 26/09/2024: Russia's Escalation in Its Nuclear Tone

   Links for the day

8. Why We Keep Saying Bryan Lunduke is a Liability

   In recent days he promoted the idea Trump had won the 2020 election

9. The Media Has Hardly Mentioned This, But New Antitrust Complaint Filed Against Microsoft in the European Union

   "AFP has wirefeed article picked up only by two sites about how Microsoft abuses Azure to 1) lock-in 'customers' and 2) overcharge them 400%"

10. [Meme] How Crime Becomes the 'Normal' in Society

    crimes pile up and nobody even keeps a count

11. EPO Dictatorship, Facing Growing Pressure From Senior Staff for Breaking Laws and Illegally Running the System, Turns to "Young Professionals" (to Crush Voices, Rights, and Benefits)

    The European patent system has become a bloody jungle and the "courts" are themselves a violation of the law. They have no actual legitimacy, they're run for and by industry (as in, large corporations, not even European).

12. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

13. IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, September 25, 2024

    IRC logs for Wednesday, September 25, 2024

14. Gemini Links 25/09/2024: Banning Leasehold, Eshell Ramble

    Links for the day

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