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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 26, 2025

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  1. Links 25/03/2025: Clownflare’s Slop and Bounties on Fake Patents
    Links for the day
  2. Let Them Eat 'Apps'
    Go Appless
  3. Linux Runs Almost Everything, But They Almost Never Tell You This (No Marketing Budget)
    Only about 1% (or at most 2%) of the Linux Foundation's budget goes towards Linux; a lot is routed towards Bill Gates and Microsoft promotion
  4. Free Software Community Folks Are Closer Together Than the Cliques and Opportunists Rallying Around "Open Source" (Openwashing, Marketing, Conniving)
    Generally speaking, freedom-loving geeks learn to reject morbid elements and trolls, who end up expelled
  5. Growing Poverty Rates in the United States of America (or Elsewhere) Beneficial to GNU/Linux Adoption
    Toxic politics around the world, including the US, may mean weaker economies
  6. European Patent Office (EPO) Illegally Turning to Slop Behind Closed Doors, Staff Objects to This Hidden Catastrophe
    Who stands to gain from all this and at whose expense?
  7. After US Government Funding Cuts the Centralisation of the Web (Especially Certificate Authority Let's Encrypt) is at Risk
    They try to pull the plug on open protocols with decent encryption available (unless it is outsourced to third parties)
  8. When Microsoft Folks Who Literally Strangle Women Try to Strangle Microsoft Critics
    Speaking to Court staff yesterday, they too are shocked about those SLAPPs
  9. Martinique: Windows Down to All-Time Low
    we cannot expect Windows to ever recover

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  10. Links 25/03/2025: Terrace Workbench and Spellcheck in LibreOffice on FreeBSD
    Links for the day
  11. The Open Source Initiative (OSI) Might Get 'Forked' Soon
    Someone who read our series has already taken a leading role
  12. IBM Layoffs in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2025
    Should Free software people trust such a secretive company?
  13. Roku Will 'Lead' Attempts to Abolish the Illegal and Unconstitutional Unified Patent Court (UPC), Which Represents EPO Corruption and Lobbyism Spreading Upwards Inside the EU
    When bribery buys policies and courts, even illegal policies and courts
  14. Gemini Links 25/03/2025: Relaxation, Literary "Movements", and Gemini Mentions
    Links for the day
  15. Links 25/03/2025: Putin Sends Children to Battle, 23andMe Drowns as People's Highly Personal DNA Data Floats
    Links for the day
  16. Anticipated in 2018: Lilie James & Location tracking, Googlists complained
    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
  17. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  18. IRC Proceedings: Monday, March 24, 2025
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