Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 04, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. In Central African Republic Windows Has Pretty Much Fallen to Zero

   We need to focus on Software Freedom

2. Microsoft Windows Down to 8.5% in South Africa

   South Africa and Egypt are strategic in Africa

3. New Series: A Deep Dive Into the Severe Corruption of the Open Source Initiative (OSI), Nowadays a Front Group and Lobbyist of Microsoft

   There's a lot to show

4. Doing Free Software for a Living in an Era or a Time of Abundance of Code (and Fast Internet to Pass It Around Freely) or Writing When the Web is Attacked by LLM Slop

   Tailoring code to needs is the key

5. The UEFI hype and Microsoft's lies

   By Sami Tikkanen

   New

6. Gemini Links 03/03/2025: Copyrights, GrapheneOS, and SpaceBeans

   Links for the day

7. Links 03/03/2025: Europe Rallies Behind Ukraine, Measles Flourishes in US Again

   Links for the day

8. After Fund-raising Campaign the Free Software Foundation Still Raises About $13,000 Per Week (Without Campaigning for New Donors/Members)

   Richard Stallman in the Board is not a liability

9. Links 03/03/2025: 'Monetisation' Myth' and Microsoft's LLMs Helping Criminals

   Links for the day

10. The New Series About the Open Source Initiative (OSI) and the Microsoft Entryism in OSI is Closely Related to the SLAPP Against Techrights

    Also based on the leading publication that they want removed

11. Links 03/03/2025: Mass Layoffs in IBM China, Intel Still in Trouble

    Links for the day

12. 3 Out of 4 in Cuba Use Linux to Access the Web

    Maybe change does come about...

13. Links 02/03/2025: Day Off, POWER9, Console Challenge

    Links for the day

14. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

15. IRC Proceedings: Sunday, March 02, 2025

    IRC logs for Sunday, March 02, 2025

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