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Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 16, 2024

Hakisak on a market stall

Updated This Past Day

  1. EFF Still Uses and Relies on Donald Trump's Friend (Elon Musk) for Campaigning and It Gets No Response (Except From FFII's President)
    ...He reminds them the issue isn't just "bad patents" or "patent trolls"
  2. OpenSource.net, Which OpenSource.org (OSI) Said Would Continue OpenSource.com (IBM/Red Hat), Has Been Dead for a Month
    Open Source Initiative is not an ally; it's a Microsoft front group
  3. Latest in OSI's Blog Affirms Its Status as Microsoft Front Group, Sponsored by Microsoft to Promote Microsoft Agenda and Lobby for GPL Violations
    Even the staff is paid by Microsoft; they hardly hide this anymore
  4. OpenAI: If OpenAI Survives Another 2 Years, It'll be About 30 Billion Dollars in Cumulative Losses/Debt
    So if Microsoft cushions those losses (to delay the bubble's implosion; Microsoft uses the bubble to fake its "market cap", as does NVIDIA), its debt will skyrocket
  5. Perils for Patent Eligibility Restoration Act (PERA) and PREVAIL (Efforts by the Litigation 'Industry' to Bring Back Software Patents and Crush Challengers at PTAB)
    The EFF and FSF seem to have caught up with it

    New

  6. Euthanasia perception, legacy & Debian Suicide Cluster
    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
  7. Links 15/11/2024: The Onion Buys Crank's Site, More Publications Quit Twitter/X
    Links for the day
  8. Gemini Links 15/11/2024: Boredom and New Blog with Gemini Support
    Links for the day
  9. Iceland: Microsoft Windows Down to All-Time Low of 60% on Desktops/Laptops
    It also fell sharply across all form factors
  10. Large British Newspaper (The Daily Telegraph) to be Composed by Microsoft Chatbots Instead of Journalists?
    "engagement" is not accuracy or quality
  11. FSFE Now Taking Bribes From Microsoft, Its Gold Donor (the Highest Payment Possible)
    A sellout does not get any bigger than "Gold Donor"
  12. One of the Largest B2B YouTube Channels?
    It makes the Linux Foundation look rogue; it plays along with all this
  13. Free Software is for Everybody
    today's Linux Foundation shamelessly and recklessly promotes discrimination
  14. Coming Soon: More Reports About the European Patent Office (EPO)
    EPO corruption has made Europe a lot poorer
  15. Filipinos Love GNU/Linux
    Philippines as seen by statCounter
  16. [Meme] Poverty Not an Issue
    To know who the EFF fronts for, check who's funding the EFF
  17. EFF Stories For Next Year
    The EFF isn't what it seems
  18. Windows 10? No, Windows at 10% (in Angola)
    That's how statCounter sees things anyway
  19. Wintertime in Techrights
    2025 should be an exciting year for us and we look forward to spring
  20. About 80% of Red Hat Blog is the 'Hey Hi' Nonsense (Ponzi Scheme)
    The official Red Hat RSS feeds have been drowned out by "AI" nonsense
  21. [Meme] If This is How Wall Street Really Works, People Should be Terrified
    "OpenAI worth $150 billion with a $15 billion loss"
  22. Red Hat Has Become a Buzzwords Vendor, Not a Linux Company
    Red Hat is quickly becoming a joke of a company or "90% marketing"...
  23. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  24. IRC Proceedings: Thursday, November 14, 2024
    IRC logs for Thursday, November 14, 2024
  25. Phoronix Did Not Cover This...
    1,000 people fired at AMD is not news
  26. Links 15/11/2024: LF Talks About Patent Trolls, Advancing a Warning About "Buy Nothing Day"
    Links for the day
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Friday contains all the text.

    Top-read articles (excluding bot/crawler visits):

    Span from 2024-11-09 to 2024-11-15
    2385 /n/2024/11/11/Freedom_Must_Always_Be_Fought_For_All_the_Time.shtml
    1596 /n/2024/11/09/Linux_Foundation_is_a_Scam_Like_Crypto_So_is_the_Company_of_Jim.shtml
    1565 /n/2024/11/12/It_s_Morbid_to_Talk_About_Living_People_as_If_They_re_Dead.shtml
    1262 /n/2024/11/09/Joel_Espy_Klecker_unpaid_terminally_ill_youth_labor_Debian_knew.shtml
    1166 /n/2024/11/13/Free_Software_is_About_Collaboration.shtml
    1100 /n/2024/11/15/OpenSource_net_Which_OpenSource_org_OSI_Would_Continue_OpenSour.shtml
    901 /n/2024/11/11/WordPress_is_Unfit_for_Purpose_in_2024.shtml
    827 /n/2024/11/13/In_Switzerland_GNU_Linux_Reaches_Record_Highs_But_What_About_th.shtml
    637 /n/2024/11/11/Trans_People_Misused_to_Attack_a_Project_or_Developer_Who_Has_N.shtml
    636 /n/2024/11/10/Gemini_Links_10_11_2024_A_Writer_s_Block_VIM_Tips_and_Tricks.shtml
    625 /n/2024/11/13/At_BetaNews_Most_Commented_Story_Is_Not_a_Story_But_LLP_Slop.shtml
    621 /n/2024/11/09/Teaser_Meme_Central_Occupational_Health_Safety_and_Ergonomics_C.shtml
    615 /n/2024/11/09/Linux_Foundation_is_Rebuilding_the_Berlin_Wall_to_Keep_Russians.shtml
    598 /n/2024/11/13/Evolution_of_euthanasia_WIPO_UDRP_similarities_exposed_by_W_Sco.shtml
    582 /n/2024/11/09/EPO_is_Blasting_Its_Own_Foot_There_Will_be_No_EPO_Left.shtml
    582 /n/2024/11/12/Activism_in_the_Digital_Realm_Can_Never_and_Must_Never_Rely_on_.shtml
    565 /n/2024/11/12/WordPress_is_for_the_Old_Web_the_New_Web_Necessitates_Static_Pa.shtml
    562 /n/2024/11/13/Jonathan_Carter_Debian_betrayed_Joel_Espy_Klecker.shtml
    540 /n/2024/11/11/ChromeOS_and_GNU_Linux_Growing_in_Spain_Almost_10_Now.shtml
    532 /n/2024/11/11/Meme_It_Takes_Only_Words_to_Destroy_Malicious_People_and_Pathol.shtml
    521 /n/2024/11/12/Biggest_Debt_Leap_in_Years_More_Than_Half_a_Trillion_Dollars_in.shtml
    516 /n/2024/11/09/There_s_No_Free_Lunch_in_Video_Hosting.shtml

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