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Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 21, 2025

Trout with tomatoes and a grouse bird 1884 Artist Robert D. Wilkie Art Public Domain

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

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  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
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Thursday contains all the text.

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