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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 05, 2025,
updated Mar 05, 2025

A sign warning of the danger of falling rocks

Updated This Past Day

  1. Crossbow tragedy, bigger than Kyle Clifford, social media culture
    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
  2. Transcript of Richard Stallman's Interview With Manuel Cuda News in Italy (Debunking Fake "AI")
    A rough draft, but checked by two people
  3. Microsoft Collapses While GNU/Linux Rises in Bulgaria, According to statCounter
    Microsoft is losing across all sectors
  4. The Fall of the Open Source Initiative (OSI): An Introduction
    In a nutshell: there's a massive conflict inside the OSI and the OSI stooges (staff serving Big Sponsors like Microsoft) try to hide it
  5. Paraguay: GNU/Linux Surging to New Usage Levels (7%), According to statCounter
    Notice that the gains are at Microsoft Windows' expense
  6. Social Control Media as a Rapid Race to the Bottom - Part I - That Sinking Feeling
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  7. Microsoft's Entryism as Mortal Risk/Danger: The Example of the Open Source Initiative (OSI)
    Microsoft is a cult
  8. FSF Amicus Brief: Aspose.PDF for .NET 24.2.0, OOXML (.docx), and Microsoft Word (Proprietary)
    Could the FSF not find any law firm that, in addition to talking about or for Free software, does not use .NET, OOXML, and almost everything Microsoft?
  9. New Interview With Richard Stallman in Italy (Manuel Cuda News)
    Due to Google's growing aggression against Free software and proper APIs, this cannot be downloaded and converted to a free format

    New

  10. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day

    New

  11. Luxembourg: GNU/Linux at 8% Based on Estimates
    steady increases this year
  12. Gemini Links 04/03/2025: Bicycle, Photos, and Motorola 6809 Assemblers
    Links for the day
  13. Microsoft OSI Apparently Still Reading Techrights Closely, Trying to Make Face-Saving PR Moves
    They have long had this reactionary rhythm, wherein it feels like we can 'control' what they publish and when by merely highlighting facts about them
  14. Slopwatch: linuxsecurity.com and Other 'Linux' Sites With LLM Slop
    SEO spam with machine-generated fodder, plus a person to whom English isn't a first language
  15. Links 04/03/2025: Microsoft/Korea Game Industry Association Workforce Cuts, Outlook and 365 Outage Affects Very Many
    Links for the day
  16. Chad: All-Time Lows for Windows, According to statCounter
    According to statCounter, many in Chad moved to Android
  17. Links 04/03/2025: Universities Are Under Attack, Windows Attracts Ransom Against Ministry of Health
    Links for the day
  18. Links 04/03/2025: Microsoft Issues Policy Instructions to the Cheeto Mussolini Administration, Cloudflare Engages in Mass Censorship Again
    Links for the day
  19. Gemini Links 04/03/2025: Athens, Fedora 41, and Yelling at Clouds
    Links for the day
  20. The Free Software Foundation (FSF) Belatedly Comments on Case That Tests Copyleft in the United States
    "The Free Software Foundation (FSF) announced today it has submitted an amicus brief in the case entitled Neo4j"
  21. If They Try to Censor You on Some Topic, Then You Should Cover This Topic Even More
    OSI is only a small part of it
  22. IRC Proceedings: Monday, March 03, 2025
    IRC logs for Monday, March 03, 2025
  23. Thorsten Glaser & Open Source Initiative (OSI) resignations due to AI whitewashing
    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Tuesday contains all the text.

    Top-read articles (excluding bot/crawler visits):

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    2755 /about.shtml
    1887 /n/2025/03/03/The_UEFI_hype_and_Microsoft_s_lies.shtml
    1642 /n/2025/03/04/FSF_Amicus_Brief_Aspose_PDF_for_NET_24_2_0_OOXML_docx_and_Micro.shtml
    1373 /n/2025/02/25/Eternal_Vigilance.shtml
    987 /index.shtml
    883 /irc.shtml
    730 /n/2025/02/26/Microsoft_Devoured_the_Open_Source_Initiative_OSI_Now_It_s_Just.shtml
    683 /n/2025/02/17/Links_17_02_2025_Blogroll_Conundrum_Research_Scientists_Under_S.shtml
    600 /n/2025/03/04/The_Fall_of_the_Open_Source_Initiative_OSI_An_Introduction.shtml
    593 /browse/latest.shtml
    560 /n/2025/02/26/The_Free_Software_Foundation_s_Fund_raising_Efforts_Continue_Un.shtml

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