Today in Techrights

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

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

   When you realise you made an error and things you adopted more than 15 years ago became utterly bad

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

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