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The direction taken by Canonical in recent months has upset a lot of people, and rightly so; we kindly remind people that alternatives exist and Linux Mint already explores some of them
Canonical and IBM Are Turning Ubuntu and Fedora Into Microsoft Windows, Time to Adopt Real Community Distros
IBM, with its notorious army of aggressive lawyers and mountains of software patents, is trying to make RHEL proprietary and render Fedora ‘spyware’ (they know it’ll put off existing and potential users; later they can claim “reduced demand” for it and mothball the whole thing, rebranding it as “CentOS” after they had already fired Fedora management and then abandoned OpenSource.com and OpenOffice.org/LibreOffice); Canonical keeps up with evil by doing some of its own and they don't compete with Microsoft, so we can trust neither of them
The Corporate 'Cancel Culture' Industry — Part V: Hit Piece Gone Wrong?
What seemed like an 'explosive' piece in the making seems to have been aborted; we urge the community to be vigilant of corporate shills with an axe to grind, even those who call themselves "journalists" (but lack professional training in journalism)
The Web is Shrinking, But GNU/Linux is Now at Highest Web Share We’ve Ever Seen on the Client Side
Windows is losing its dominance and monopoly rents; the good news is that GNU/Linux (not ChromeOS but the freedom-respecting distros) is among the victors or among the platforms to gain, with considerable share gains in the global south
The Corporate 'Cancel Culture' Industry ? Part II: People Who Defamed Linus Torvalds Say Torvalds Was ?Grateful? for It
We’ve seen it all before; the concern trolls and ‘cancel culture’ warriors try to pass off their brigading as “help” and “advice” to the target of brigading; today we give some more concrete details
Some People Who Signed a Defamatory Petition Demanding the Removal of Richard Stallman (From the FSF and Everything Else) Have Remorse
In a manic rush to crucify the father of Free software (who had started the GNU/Linux operating system almost 40 years ago) thousands of delirious people signed an utterly ludicrous petition (full of distortions and lies) — a petition managed by an employee of IBM. Now, years later, some of them want their names to vanish.
Richard Stallman Explains Why Chatbots Are Not Artificial Intelligence (June 2023 Talk)
In his speech at the University of Pisa on June 7, Richard Stallman addressed the topic of machine learning systems (so-called “artificial intelligence”) and answered the question of whether the training data should be released. 29:00 – 54:00 and 58:40 – 1:04:00 in the video.
'Linux' Foundation Increases Number of Microsoft Employees in the Board of Directors to THREE, the Only Geek in the Board Has Left (or Got Removed)
The Linux Foundation is gradually becoming a shadow of Microsoft, just like the Open Source Initiative, where most of the money comes from Microsoft and the official blog promotes Microsoft, its proprietary software, and Microsoft’s side in a class action lawsuit over GPL violations (with 9 billion dollars in damages at stake). So it all started with one Board member after the “Microsoft loves Linux” PR charade (money passed to Jim Zemlin, who gives talks at Microsoft and is ‘married’ to Microsoft); then it became two (more money paid for the second seat; the Linux Foundation openly advertises that Board seats are up for sale with upper bound of 2) and now it’s three through the loophole (subsidiary to evade membership limits being exceeded, just like at the OSI and Redmonk). It’s like a completely covert takeover in slow motion and the “AT-LARGE DIRECTOR” is also a Microsoft employee (all 3 are female, so talking about this hostile act of entryism will get baited as being sexist); Mr. Mason is no longer there, so no geeks or Linux developers left in the Board (it’s just ‘suits’ and corporate actors). As a reminder, Microsoft is also in the Technical Advisory Board of the Linux Foundation and its current Board members keep pushing for Linux to be outsourced to Microsoft's GitHub despite being fiercely anti-GPL (the licence of Linux), totally proprietary, and having already had two rounds of layoffs this year. It’s not like Microsoft is even the sole problem in that board.
The Real Linux Foundation – Part 9: Use of Contractors Soared From 12 to 29 in Just Three Years, Value of Contracts Has Gone Up by a Lot
The Linux Foundation must be spending tens of millions of dollars on contractors, so what does its own staff do all day long?
The Real Linux Foundation – Part 5: The Annual Cost of the Office Has Jumped to Almost 8 Million Dollars for Just 261 Employees (About $30,000 Per Employee Per Year)
A couple of years ago the Linux Foundation paid almost 6 million dollars a year for an overpriced office space (vanity; no practical advantage) following a relocation to one of the world’s most expensive places; the figure has since then jumped by nearly 2 million dollars
Linux Foundation Demotes Mr. Linux, Linus Torvalds, to Third (in Salaries), Only Uses Him for the Name
The Linux [sic] Foundation‘s tax filings (divulged by the Nonprofit Explorer) show that it now pays “CHRIS ANISZCZYK” and “JAMES ZEMLIN” more than it pays “LINUS TORVALDS”, sans bonuses. Torvalds fell to third place already. Mr. Zemlin pays himself over $1.2 million a year.
IBM’s War on Open (Look at the Pattern of Layoffs at Red Hat)
By abandoning OpenSource.com and OpenOffice.org/LibreOffice IBM sends out a clear signal that it doesn’t understand or simply does not care about the community of Free software users; its siege against the FSF and other institutions never ended and today we look at who’s being laid off or shown the door (the work environment is intentionally being made worse)
IBM Has Killed OpenSource.com, Rejecting the Open Source Way
IBM seems to have shut down OpenSource.com (it’s online but inactive; nobody works on it anymore). The Linux Foundation did the same to Linux.com in 2019 and then trashed it (because it doesn’t care about Linux, except as a brand to milk).
On the Client Side, Linux Has Become Market Majority
If one counts Android as “Linux”, then it’s probably fair to say that nowadays most people already use “Linux” on the client side (the server side has been prominently GNU/Linux for a very long time) and if one counts Chrome OS as GNU/Linux (technically it is), then it seems reasonable to expect 10% market share by year’s end or some time next year
Linux Foundation is Outsourcing Linux Development and Communications to Surveillance Giants
It seems like Mr. Torvalds, the founder of Linux, has been tragically compelled to use proprietary software for E-mail (the primary means/tool for collaboration around Linux); this concerning trend, however, would be consistent with a lot of what we’ve been seeing from Jim 'respect Microsoft' Zemlin and his associates at the Board of Directors (proprietary software boosters)
Experiencing 15 Years of LibrePlanet Celebration Firsthand as a Volunteer: 2023 – Charting the Course
This year, LibrePlanet was hybrid with on-site and online options from the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center.
Services and Users TRApped in Telescreen-Running Apps
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.
New Talk: Richard Stallman Explains His Problem With Rust (Trademark Restrictions), Openwashing (Including Linux Kernel), Machine Learning, and the JavaScript Trap
Richard Stallman's talk is now available.
(editor's note: Stallman's talk starts at 18:20 into the video.)
(editor's note: Stallman's talk starts at 18:20 into the video.)
Ken Thompson, Who Co-created UNIX, is Now Moving to Debian GNU/Linux (Raspbian)
Ken Thompson has shared incredible news; he's moving to GNU/Linux
Microsoft Is an Ethical Not ?Religious? Problem
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
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