Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 21, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Richard Stallman on Patents

   uploaded a day ago by Aleksandar Popovic

2. What Happened to the Open Source Initiative (OSI) Elections: Leaking Information of Members (Even in 2025)

   More nonsense about Hey Hi (AI), which OSI has been openwashing on Microsoft's payroll

3. Techrights Will Never Capitulate to Threats From Microsofters

   Set aside violence against women and all sorts of other things; it's not about personal issues

4. The Microsoft-Led Open Source Initiative (OSI) is Hurting, It'll Try to Hurt Its Critics and Exposers Now

   The OSI's chief meanwhile issues a bunch of meaningless waffle, a sort of "damage control" or "face-saving" platitudes

   New

5. Recommended New Article From Dr. Andy Farnell and Some Site Miscellany

   Andy says he and his daughter successfully avoid GAFAM

6. Links 20/03/2025: Executions in China and Crackdowns on Science in the US

   Links for the day

7. Gemini Links 20/03/2025: Ubuntu Shafting Common Sense and Blocking of Bots of the Net

   Links for the day

8. Links 20/03/2025: IBM Layoffs (Thousands Reportedly Laid Off) and Lots More Corruption in the White House

   Links for the day

9. Apple is Still an Enemy of Open Standards and Software Freedom

   Apple did not get any more benign

10. Gemini Links 20/03/2025: Wanting the Future Back and "Society That Lost Focus"

    Links for the day

11. Fake Articles About GNOME

    betanews again

12. Richard Stallman's Personal Site Says He's Looking for More Opportunities to Speak in Europe

    He does not charge people for the talk

13. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

14. IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, March 19, 2025

    IRC logs for Wednesday, March 19, 2025

15. Debian Pregnancy Cluster, when I stopped using IRC

    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

16. Mass Layoffs at IBM Confirmed

    Thousands believed to have been laid off

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