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The EPO's lingering attempts to shut us down go back to 2015 and a year later the CEO of Sirius Open Source told me in person (in Alton Towers) that Microsoft was contacting him, trying to get me in trouble. They even phoned him.

How many thousands got laid off secretly? This month we sort of broke the story about IBM layoffs, starting with "soft" rumours and later more substantiated rumours. "Scouting" the insiders sort of 'paid off'. Not in a monetary sense of course; we don't make money, we lose money.

Seeing how IBM lobbies against 35 U.S.C. § 101 and how IBM/Microsoft exercise control over the USPTO (personnel-wise), we have no choice but to treat IBM as "part-time" enemy (only part because they also employ some Linux developers)

Intentional or not, the move seems deeply misguided

Microsoft paid Novell to stop competing and instead advance the interests of Microsoft as if these were Novell's too

Richard M. Stallman (RMS) has a new public talk online. He did not announce this in his site and we know why the FSF never mentions his talks either.

The above isn't a new problem because back in 2007 a Microsoft-connected troll called Acacia sued both Novell and Red Hat over Linux graphics. Hard to believe 17 years have passed since then.

There's a limit to how much abuse to me and to my family I can tolerate for the act of merely reporting on corporate corruption

That's Google. It has too much power/influence and it looks like a stacked panel.

That's a bigger increase than we expected, more so given vandalism by Microsoft.

This is what the Linux Foundation did to Linux.com after firing all the staff!

The Linux Foundation may take another month to upload the full stack of videos, so this is an unofficial recording by the audience.

Why are the abuses directed at the people who opposed this mess rather than the perpetrators of this mess? Is it OK to send death threats to men and women who object to "secure" boot?

Half a year ago: Linus Torvalds on 'Hilarious' AI Hype: "I Hate the Hype" and "I Don't Want to be Part of the Hype", "You Need to Be a Bit Cynical About This Whole Hype Cycle" So Torvalds got asked about "hey hi" again (of course, hard to escape mindless hype and cargo cults that game the stock market). Today it's Linux's birthday, so what better time to examine what he said?

They do the same to operating systems with UEFI 'secure boot' - an assault on everybody's freedom

Remembering that the company's founder, Mark Shuttleworth, already has a history of running afoul of tax laws (in South Africa), the casual reader must be sceptical

Let's assume that in the past 5 years "over 2 billion" became 2.5 billion. Servers are far fewer than desktops and laptops anyway. What is 4.5% of 2.5 billion? It is about 112,500,000 (112.5 million).

This is an ad by Microsoft. Why did the editors go ahead/along with this? Did they not check who sponsored it? Or did Slashdot too get paid?

It seems like a case of breaking down a person completely, then taking away his life's project (that he had already started when he was my colleague 13 years ago) and even the funding for the project.

Can we trust the Linux Foundation to look after anything at all? Look what it turned this once-thriving site into.