Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 12, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. How the SLAPPs From Microsoft Staff Are Connected to the Corrupt OSI, Whose Majority of Money Comes From Microsoft for Openwashing, LLM Hype, and Whitewashing GPL Violations During Class Action Trial

   Let's explain how some of these things are connected

2. You Need Not Be a Big Company to Defeat Microsoft If You Can Successfully Challenge Its Core "Ideas"

   Maybe that's just a sign that the ideas of RMS have become too effective and thus "dangerous"

   New

3. Links 11/05/2025: Pyotr Wrangel and Kubernetes With FreeBSD

   Links for the day

4. What Happened to the Open Source Initiative (OSI) Elections: A Moment of Silence and Revisionism Amid US Government Investigation and Community Uproar

   Not a word this month

5. Microsoft Florian Becomes Patent Troll, Arranges to Sue Companies (Extorting Money Out of Them)

   From campaigner against software patents to paid Microsoft shill to "FOSS patents" (actually attacking FOSS) to revisionism as "books" (for Microsoft)... and now this

6. Links 11/05/2025: China's Fentanylware (TikTok) Tells Kids to Vandalise Schools' Chromebooks and Increased Censorship in India

   Links for the day

7. Gemini Links 11/05/2025: Yeeting Oligarch Tech, Offline Browsing

   Links for the day

8. Over at Tux Machines...

   GNU/Linux news for the past day

9. IRC Proceedings: Saturday, May 10, 2025

   IRC logs for Saturday, May 10, 2025

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