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It seems like the FSF is making somewhat of a comeback
A Can of WORMS - Part IV - They Would Even Attack RMS for Criticising Autocrats (Saying This is "Politics")
Quite frankly, RMS should be able to write about whatever he wants, and not have any middlemen or moderators pre-filter what he adds to his personal sites in the clearly-labeled political notes. Some people want him censored or prefer for him to self-censor.
Linux Foundation Operative Says We and Our Software All "Owe an Enormous Debt of Gratitude" to a Software Patents Reinforcer
OIN isn't the solution, it's not our solution; it exists to serve large American (and Japanese) companies.
The State of Memory Leaks in GNU/Linux
A little memory leak each day is the road to Hell
Canonical: Make Ubuntu Bloated (Debian With Snaps), Then Sell the 'Debloated' Version for a Fee
Put bluntly, Canonical is trying to sell a solution to a problem it is creating
Not Journalism: Almost 80% of the 'Articles' We Saw About Torvalds and 'Vibe Coding' Are LLM Slop (Sometimes Slop Images)
The real issue is, Torvalds who created Git as a solution to proprietary prison is entertaining Microsoft's own proprietary prison
Monday, January 12, Red Hat Layoffs Allegedly Planned
We'll update this post or follow up if or when we get more information
Open Source Initiative (OSI) Not Doing Its Job, Instead It's Promoting Microsoft Ponzi Schemes
And the site they were meant to manage as a successor/heir/continuity for opensource.org has been inactive for 6 months (it'll be 6 months tomorrow)
Microsoft LLMs Are Speaking, Spreading Misinformation by Slop About Ken Thompson and Unix
History is being distorted before our eyes. Even fake quotes are manufactured, attributed to real and still-living human beings.
Dr. Richard Stallman, Invited by LibreTech Collective, is Giving a Public Talk in Georgia Tech Next Month (Scheller College of Business)
They can probably squeeze about 400 people into this room if they try hard enough
Microsoft, Over 120 Billion Dollars in Debt, Prepares Next Round of Mass Layoffs (After Christmas)
Based on the online "rumour mill", Microsoft is already planning the next "megacull"; some workers hope that joining a union will protect them, as we showed some days ago, but in reality those Microsoft employees are a liability to such unions.
Microsoft GitHub is Dying and Bot Activity in GitHub Won't Save It
Doing what it can to keep it alive, Microsoft only loses more money (it now classifies it as "AI" to justify all the losses)
Valve's SteamOS, Microsoft Canonical's Ubuntu, and Other Platforms That Only Leverage Free Software (But Won't Protect It)
Despite the word "ubuntu" having a nice connotation (especially in Africa), the distro called "ubuntu" isn't a poster child for community but for a super-rich person commanding an army of unpaid volunteers
Why So Many Software Projects Are Quitting Microsoft and GitHub
In a nutshell, they eventually figure out it's not 'free hosting' but a trap
Based on Almost 2 Billion Web Sessions, GNU/Linux Grows Fast (But So Are Attempts to Undermine It)
If you're in the business of selling proprietary software such as Windows, all you can see in GNU/Linux is something to sabotage or hijack
Fake News Sites Made by LLMs Are Lying With Confidence (IBM and Red Hat Layoffs)
Slop just doesn't work, but it is made to simply appear credible because of the grammar.
Google News is Now Promoting a Parasitic Slopfarm Called "findarticles.com", Where Plagiarism of "Linux" Articles is Rampant
Imagine being a Web surfer trying to locate actual journalism about "linux" this week.
What a World Would Look Like If Everyone Used Free Software Only
In such a world privacy abuses would be a lot rarer. Because if someone added some "telemetry" to the program, then someone else would remove that from the program, then redistribute the same. Guess which one users would rather download...
Slopwatch: linuxconfig.org, linuxsecurity.com, and Google's Promotion of the Worst and Most Prolific Slopfarms
Slopwatch will be relatively long for the simple reason that we found a lot of new LLM slop about "Linux".
Microsoft E.E.E.: Git Will Now (or Very Soon) Fully Depend on Rust, Which is Controlled by Microsoft
So a Microsoft employee now boasts that they're making Git - not GitHub - dependent on Rust, which Microsoft controls in GitHub. We already saw the trouble this causes in Linux and very much foresaw it (LibreOffice is also targeted).