Microsoft’s presence on the server side is just a niche. No wonder there are many Microsoft layoffs (about 20,000 staff) and Microsoft divisions are being silently shut down. | Continue reading
DuckDuckGo is another privacy abuser in disguise; the above forum thread enumerates key reasons | Continue reading
Italo from the OSI, where he worked to 'cancel' Richard Stallman, has just announced the banning of a Russian firm; this raises several concerns about the promises/premises of Free (libre) software and it merits a difficult discussion because this is quite unprecedented | Continue reading
Guest article by Mitchel Lewis | Continue reading
Mozilla’s managers are a big part of today’s problem/s; they aren’t resigning, instead they lay off loads of technical staff that has worked on Firefox (while rewarding themselves with further pay increases) and Firefox users aren’t treated with respect; the way things are going, … | Continue reading
OSI, SFC, FSF and Linux Foundation are in effect selling time and space (even to Microsoft, except the FSF was never foolish enough to do this). As of today, LibreOffice does the same thing (which might remain benign; just be sure to reject rivals as "sponsors" because it dooms p … | Continue reading
Take a moment to study what actually begets the current split; the grievances don't merit a fragmentation, which the communities around Free software aren't likely to benefit from | Continue reading
Richard Stallman says he’s coming back to the FSF and he will hopefully lead the FSF again | Continue reading
The maltreatment of Red Hat at the hands of IBM is driving away people who joined Red Hat thinking it would help promote something positive, unlike the business model and ruthless patent aggression of IBM | Continue reading
The World Wide Web seems like a lost cause because Web browsers, which nowadays determine what the de facto standards are (same problem as 20 years ago), are monopolistic when it comes fundamentals like rendering engines (and privacy isn't even an option, users aren't the priorit … | Continue reading
Microsoft loves Linux enough to strangle it to death with patents while the media isn't paying attention and instead telling us that Microsoft is now a buddy or "pal" of GNU/Linux | Continue reading
Using Agate to start one's own Gemini capsule (self-hosted) is a lot simpler than one might be inclined to believe; this is a detailed HOWTO, hoping to encourage more people to join Gemini space, which is fast-growing and free of garbage | Continue reading
QuiteRSS (or any other RSS/XML/Atom reader for that matter) helps liberate cyberspace, removing middlemen from one's consumption of information on the Internet; the World Wide Web is otherwise a lost cause, monopolised by companies that censor, spy on, and manipulate people | Continue reading
"As with all security, there is assumed risk no matter how careful you are. There are no security guarantees but that doesn't mean you shouldn't try." | Continue reading
Concerns about GnuPG's Koch facilitating or allowing practices that aren't secure and are even proprietary raise concern among privacy and security specialists; alternatives exist already | Continue reading
The betrayal in the Free software community is partly caused by monopolies that bribe people to defect and, in effect, attack the community by promoting proprietary software | Continue reading
The FUD artist Catalin Cimpanu (hired by ZDNet for his Linux-hostile misinformation, which he had done for years in Bleeping Nonsense) is at it again; this is becoming an issue that oughtn’t be ignored or overlooked (even SJVN from ZDNet is increasingly concerned about it) | Continue reading
Old and new monopolists aren't allies of convenience and aren't to be counted on when it comes to salvaging GNU/Linux autonomy and community-like traits; their sole aspiration is to gain greater control over code (e.g. systemd monoculture) and over all governance structures (e.g. … | Continue reading
The 'clown computing' model or the dependence on "big" and supposedly "trusted" brands is a growing problem; people need to learn how to emancipate themselves and leverage tools which offer complete autonomy | Continue reading
The "big money" presidency stays; the faces will be different, there will be more racial empathy, but when it comes to "big business" not much is expected to change (it's bought and paid for, as usual) | Continue reading
The dictatorship at the EPO (the one which nobody can vote out) continues to trample on and laugh at the law, including the EPC, by pushing for endless expansion of patent scope | Continue reading
Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock | Continue reading
GitHub is a Microsoft censorship machine and those who are still in denial about it are a lost cause | Continue reading
The Software Freedom Conservancy, funded by some enemies of copyleft, is trying to lecture Microsoft (which pays the Software Freedom Conservancy) on morality and choices of where to funnel money | Continue reading
Mozilla's business model keeps changing for the worse, as the "app" mentality and/or the "social control media" mindset are chosen over the needs of actual (longtime) users, limiting the extensibility of the Firefox browser in the name of "performance" or "simplicity" (as if all … | Continue reading
Debian 'canceling' the founder of Linux is no "small potatoes"; and considering the reason (or what this is done for; an expression of an opinion) we probably should be alarmed about ramifications for free speech | Continue reading
The “something” Foundation (something they make money from, without even using it, supporting it, let alone understanding it) is outsourcing almost everything to Microsoft (GitHub, proprietary software). It’s just constantly milking the trademark of Linus Torvalds to make a lot o … | Continue reading
"There are still a few people (but sadly very few groups) doing this for the right reasons." | Continue reading
"Linux Foundation lawyers are now literally recommending omitting copyright holders' names and copyright dates from copyright notices in source code." | Continue reading
Microsoft keeps paying, conditionally, a bunch of high-profile Free software projects; there's expectation they will reciprocate one way or another, shows recent history | Continue reading
It's time to recall what IBM employees have themselves said (or signed on) in light of the manner in which IBM was making money | Continue reading
For the purpose of denial of their harsh past (even very recent past), which is embarrassing, IBM managers try to paint themselves as champions of diversity who heroically battle against racism (even as they continue to profit from racism) | Continue reading
Removing words versus the sin of removing people; today we revisit (more closely) IBM's early adoption of eugenics projects to drive sales of tabulation machines, the company's 'bread and butter' at a time when it was still relatively small | Continue reading
Microsoft's "perception management" games are progressing and are finding their way into official blogs of supposed 'competitors' like Canonical and SUSE | Continue reading
Even though the Microsoft-sponsored media repeatedly refuses (or strangely enough just 'fails') to report on it, the days of Microsoft's IIS are likely numbered; it won't be long before less than a million computers run it | Continue reading
Canonical’s commitment to Free software barely exists; with so-called “Apps” and “Snaps” and “Stores” we’re seeing a gradual transition to — and acceptance of — blobs and DRM, including Microsoft lock-in inside Ubuntu | Continue reading
The Ubuntu 'community' as well as the 'community' component of Red Hat (IBM) don't view Microsoft as a rival; over a decade ago Mark Shuttleworth accused Microsoft of "extortion" and "racketeering" (his words), but now he's paid to change his tune | Continue reading
SUSE seems to have learned no lessons after the aftermath of its (or Novell’s) Microsoft patent scam, which had been negotiated partly by Miguel de Icaza (now working directly for Microsoft) before causing Novell to collapse and offload its patents to Microsoft (‘TikTok operandi’ … | Continue reading
The situation at Red Hat isn’t good, employee morale is very low, and yet — perhaps unsurprisingly — nobody seems to be talking about it (at least not in the mainstream media) | Continue reading
There’s this persistent notion, based upon a deliberate lie (which Microsoft pays the media to perpetuate), that Microsoft has ‘come around’ and magically learned to “love” the competition (as if Ballmer and Nadella are opposites when they’re in fact friends and longtime colleagu … | Continue reading
Softpedia's GNU/Linux writers were ousted, only to be replaced by Microsoft boosters who now use the site's most popular GNU/Linux section to spread Microsoft lies and FUD (as happened in other sites before Softpedia) | Continue reading
"A large part of this “loss of integrity” is simply a lack of desire to resist competition, or even recognize the nature of the threat." | Continue reading
Another major fluke from the not-so-Linux Foundation, which now promotes a Windows site in the Linux Foundation’s Official Blog and in Linux.com as well (the Linux Foundation Newsletter… is Windows) | Continue reading
"Brace for when GNU falls the way that OSI, FSF, FSFE, Mozilla, and the Linux Foundation did." | Continue reading
Loss of electronic patient records, ransom and downtime among the severe consequences of deploying Microsoft inside hospitals; yet the media rarely names the real culprit (manslaughter charges theoretically possible) and nobody gets punished except those who offer real solutions | Continue reading