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This year, LibrePlanet was hybrid with on-site and online options from the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center.

TRApp, term that lends its name to this article, is short for "Telescreen-Running App". It sounds just like "trap". Any similarity is not purely coincidental.

Richard Stallman's talk is now available.

(editor's note: Stallman's talk starts at 18:20 into the video.)

Ken Thompson has shared incredible news; he's moving to GNU/Linux

A recent Reddit post caught my attention as a Christian, humanist and computer scientist. Allegedly, an employer claimed to be troubled by a worker citing "Religious Reasons" for their refusal to use Microsoft

5 of the things that will hopefully change over the next 5 years; today we give a short list

The above video explains how both my wife and I were being bullied by management just weeks or at most a month after a shell was created in the US after the Gates Foundation had secretly (under NDA) offered money to the CEO. Only a few years prior to that he told me (face to face in Alton Towers) that Microsoft had contacted him over the phone to complain about me (regarding things I wrote in Techrights). Funny how Microsoft likes to complain about you behind your back… to your boss. I only found out and wrote about it years later. It was risky to even mention this, but I did it anyway.

Mainstream media or corporate 'tech' media is presenting a real issue — an issue of unmaintained or unpatched WordPress plugins — as an issue to do with “Linux” and even the term "backdoor" is misused (“Linux” is mentioned a lot in the context of villainy to scare away potential adopters)

Most egregiously, the highest levels have been staffed not by experienced administrators with an understanding of the demands and complexities of a university network, but by "industry dropouts" who bring toxic corporate buzzwords and hostile values into an institution that requires curious, tactful consultation, openness, trust and cooperation.

Disempowering technologies take away legitimate control from their operator. For example, not being able to stop a Windows upgrade at a critical moment. I've quit counting the classroom hours lost to inefficient and dysfunctional Microsoft products that ran amok out of my control while students stared out the window.

The Linux Foundation continues to privatise the Commons or basically turn community-developed work into corporate “assets”

When one pursues news updates about the GNU/Linux operating system (on the World Wide Web) one is increasingly likely to stumble upon promotional Microsoft articles that encourage use of proprietary spyware

The Linux Foundation seems to have at least partly abandoned WordPress and Drupal (GPL) in favour of proprietary and outsourced “offerings”; there has been a lot of outsourcing in recent years and this reaffirms the observation that the Foundation is run by inadequate management that fails to understand the ‘product’ it is named after, the licensing aspects, the community etc.

Fuelling Microsoft-affiliated and sometimes Microsoft-funded “news” (noise) sites, Red Hat — and to a lesser extent Fedora — exaggerated the severity of bugs a week before their details’ release (long and purposeless suspense); it’s a case of a boy who cries “wolf!” to get “likes” in Twitter and media coverage that relies on nothing but lousy (inaccurate) "tweets", where fact-checking is impeded by NDAs/embargo

To my surprise, my experiment with teaching computer science using nothing but the benign technologies of a whiteboard pen and £25 Raspberry Pi is an astounding success, loved by all the students.

The Linux Foundation expresses gratitude, upfront, to only one company: Microsoft

The Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC), which is trying to take ‘business’ and funds away from the FSF (also from SFLC, which sued it over that), helps IBM/Red Hat and the corporate front groups take over important GNU projects, typically under the guise of providing security and funds (financial security)

Is Canonical contractually obliged to promote Microsoft's proprietary things that spy on users? It would not be the first time Canonical works closely with Microsoft against the interests of Ubuntu users.

Rather than stick to its mission, which defines the name of the institution, we've witnessed an expansion to promotion of Microsoft GitHub and non-technical things that have nothing to do with Linux (this enables grifting, openwashing etc.)

The cookie jar associated with exploitation (or dilution) of the brand “Linux” is being opened and emptied by people who don’t use Linux and don’t contribute anything to it, instead selling control over it to hostile companies — i.e. opponents — like Microsoft (classic, textbook sellout)