Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 03, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Michael “Monty” Widenius: It Started in 1983 With Richard Stallman (RMS)

   The other co-founder of MySQL is a bit notorious for confronting RMS rather viciously

2. For the Second Time in a Few Weeks Microsoft Lunduke Makes False Accusations Against Senior Red Hat Staff to Incite a Despicable 'Troll Army'

   Nothing that Microsoft Lunduke claims of says can be trusted

3. su lisa && rm -rf /home/ibm/power

   Novell was ruined by another person from IBM, Ronald Hovsepian

4. A Record Demand at Microsoft: Demand to Cancel

   What we're witnessing is a very ungraceful destruction of XBox

   New

5. Links 02/10/2025: 'Open' 'AI' Resorting to Gimmicks and Fake Funding, Europe’s ‘Drone Wall’ Discussed

   Links for the day

6. Links 02/10/2025: Brave Passes 100M Users Milestone, Kodak Selling Its Own Film Again

   Links for the day

7. Microsoft is Losing Europe

   Hence all the "support" and "discount" offers that are limited to Europe

8. The Free Software Foundation Starts Fund-raising for 40th Anniversary

   New pop-up 2-3 days ahead of the 40th anniversary event

9. Systemd Breaks Networking in Debian and Microsoft Staff Rushes to Make Face-Saving Excuses in LWN

   Microsoft's bluca is already there in the comments, his Microsoft money pays for LWN to let him leave comments early

10. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

11. IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, October 01, 2025

    IRC logs for Wednesday, October 01, 2025

12. What the End of XBox Will Look Like: a Fiery Crash

    XBox is the next Skype. It won't last much longer. Expect many more layoffs.

13. Richard Stallman is Going to Finland to Give a Talk Next Thursday

    A day later he speaks in Sweden

14. Gemini Links 02/10/2025: SMTP Pipelining and End of ROOPHLOCH 2025

    Links for the day

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