Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 11, 2024

Updated This Past Day

1. Slow But Ongoing Mass Layoffs at EPO, Estimates That Nearly Half of the FOs Will be Made Redundant Soon

   When you cease to care about validity and quality of patents you're granting why bother with humans at all?

2. The Peril of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Illuminates the Dangers of Founders Leaving or Being Forced Out

   Whatever you may think they stand for, you risk being fixated on what they originally were and perhaps what their Web sites still say

3. Difficult Times at Soylent News

   We hope that Soylent News will recover from this

4. Crimes of the EPO Are Costing Everybody in Europe

   Since virtually everyone in Europe is a user of software (almost nobody is a forest dweller like in countries near the equator), this impacts everybody

5. OSI's Blog is Still 100% Microsoft-Sponsored Attacks on Free/Open Source Software

   OSI is a compromised, defunct body. It exists to serve the enemies of its original mission.

6. Red Hat is Suing to Protect From Patent Trolls

   Why doesn't Red Hat (IBM) also lobby to eliminate all software patents once and for all?

   New

7. Julian Assange's Father Turns 80 and They Show Themselves in Melbourne

   Will he be active in Wikileaks soon?

8. [Teaser] EPO Tightening Its Belt

   who didn't see this coming?

9. Are Lawsuits Over EPO Corruption Next?

   Why does the mainstream media not cover it?

10. Europe's Second Largest Institution, the EPO, Exploits Lack of Oversight to Commit Crimes Every Day

    Immunity begets impunity, which in turn begets crime

11. Transcript of Latest Public Talk by Dr. Richard M. Stallman (RMS), Delivered Last Month at Web3 Summit 2024 Berlin

    quick-and-dirty transcription

12. Links 10/09/2024: Big Brother Awards Germany 2024 and Telling the Unemployed to 'Drive Uber'

    Links for the day

13. Gemini Links 10/09/2024: DUIs and Useless Analytics

    Links for the day

14. New Article in redhat.com: How to Install Microsoft Windows

    That's just about as bad as that sounds...

15. A Decade Ago Things Became So Bad at the European Patent Office (EPO) That Staff Jumped Out the Window During Working Hours

    Colleagues saw the suicide; the EPO's response wasn't to tackle the causes but to bolt down the windows (like factories in China installing controversial 'suicide nets')

16. COVID-19 Ushered in Attacks on Human Rights and Things They Said They Had Introduced Temporarily Are Still in Effect/Operation Today

    COVID-19 changed a lot of things

17. Quitting Academia When Its IT Systems Are Dominated by Clowns Who Outsource

    It seems like a common trajectory

18. Why the Free Software Foundation (FSF) Owning or Renting Office Space Mattered

    "In the long term, the FSF needs to own its future office space, but then the deadly risk is that the property ownership becomes the end goal rather than software freedom."

19. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

20. IRC Proceedings: Monday, September 09, 2024

    IRC logs for Monday, September 09, 2024

21. Free Software Foundation (FSF) Probably Has No Choice But to Shut Down Its Office

    Net Income -$686,366

22. Nearly Two Years After Quitting My Job

    My colleagues and I were bullied by managers (grievance complaint got filed) who didn't even know what "Linux" was

23. Terms of Service (TOS) Under Scrutiny - Part XVIII - In Conclusion

    Many activities can be done offline without having to sign anything

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