Site Maintenance Ongoing

Dr. Roy Schestowitz

2019-06-30 09:31:32 UTC
Modified: 2019-06-30 09:31:32 UTC

Just writing endlessly isn't the goal. Maintenance is required too.

Maintenance

Summary: Behind the scenes -- so to speak -- Techrights is improving and growing; we should soon be able to produce more per day

TWO months ago we said we would spend a lot of effort organising the site and tidying things up (this was last said 5 weeks ago). Almost 26,000 blog posts later (and lots of documents, Wiki pages, media files etc.) we realise that old material isn't easy to find. A lot of it is still relevant. We've covered software patents in Europe for many years and software patents in the US since 2006, i.e. 8 years before Alice and long before 35 U.S.C. €§ 101. The history of this battle is long and complicated. I literally spent (but not wasted) my whole adult life fighting these things. I'm driven sorely by ideology -- the belief that these patents pose an existential risk to software development as we know it.

Today we add the following large Wiki pages, which are in effect index pages. For software:

As we said many times before, expect IBM's patent policy to be imposed on Red Hat. It won't be pretty.

For patents:

For Linux:

Other:

With help from iophk we've also made the following list of sites from which we often extract and find GNU/Linux news picks.

We've been making a lot of changes at the back end lately. They're not visible to users/readers, but they make us a lot more efficient and hopefully effective too. These changes are associated with backup, monitoring (of system events), security, efficiency, availability, workflow, and reach. Our IRC channels are also in a very healthy state and now involve more people than ever. We might, in the near future, cover politics a little less and use the spare time to post more articles per day. We wish to take this site to the next level, so to speak. ⬆

Recent Techrights' Posts

GNU/Linux in Kyrgyzstan: From 0.5% to 5% in Eight Years: the country is almost the size of the UK
Microsoft-Connected Sites Trying to Shift Attention Away From Microsoft's Megabreach Only Days Before Important If Not Unprecedented Grilling by the US Government?: Why does the mainstream media not entertain the possibility a lot of these talking points are directed out of Redmond?
[Video] 'Late Stage Capitalism': Microsoft as an Elaborate Ponzi Scheme (Faking 'Demand' While Portraying the Fraud as an Act of Generosity and Demanding Bailouts): Being able to express or explain the facts isn't easy because of the buzzwords
Firefox Has Fallen to 2% in New Zealand: At around 2%, at least in the US (2% or below this threshold), there's no longer an obligation to test sites for any Gecko-based browser
Winning Streak: Free software prevalence
Links 19/05/2024: Conflicts, The Press, and Spotify Lawsuit: Links for the day
GNU/Linux+ChromeOS at Over 7% in New Zealand: It's also the home of several prominent GNU/Linux advocates
libera.chat (Libera Chat) Turns 3 Today: Freenode in the meantime continues to disintegrate
[Teaser] Freenode NDA Expires in a Few Weeks (What Really Happened 3 Years Ago): get ready
GNU/Linux is Already Mainstream, But Microsoft is Still Trying to Sabotage That With Illegal Activities and Malicious Campaigns of Lies: To help GNU/Linux grow we'll need to tackle tough issues and recognise Microsoft is a vicious obstacle
Slovenia's Adoption of GNU/Linux in 2024: Whatever the factor/s may be, if these figures are true, then it's something to keep an eye on in the future
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Saturday, May 18, 2024: IRC logs for Saturday, May 18, 2024
Links 19/05/2024: Profectus Beta 1.2: Links for the day
Site Archives (Not WordPress): We've finally finished the work
[Meme] The EPO Delusion: on New Ways of Working
EPO Representatives Outline Latest Attacks on Staff: Not much has happened recently in terms of industrial action
Links 18/05/2024: Revisiting the Harms of Patent Trolls, Google Tries to Bypass (or Plagiarise) Sites Under the Guise of "AI": Links for the day
Links 18/05/2024: BASIC Story, Site Feeds, and New in Geminispace: Links for the day
Justice for Victims of Online Abuse: The claims asserted or pushed forth by the harasser are categorically denied
[Meme] Senior Software Engineer for Windows: This is becoming like another Novell
Links 18/05/2024: Deterioration of the Net, North Korean IT Workers in the US: Links for the day
Windows in Lebanon: Down to 12%?: latest from statCounter
Links 18/05/2024: Caledonia Emergency Powers, "UK Prosecutor's Office Went Too Far in the Assange Case": Links for the day
Microsoft ("a Dying Megacorporation that Does Not Create") and IBM: An Era of Dying Giants With Leadership Deficits and Corporate Bailouts (Subsidies From Taxpayers): Microsoft seems to be resorting to lots of bribes and chasing of bailouts (i.e. money from taxpayers worldwide)
US Patent and Trademark Office Sends Out a Warning to People Who Do Not Use Microsoft's Proprietary Formats: They're punishing people who wish to use open formats
Links 18/05/2024: Fury in Microsoft Over Studio Shutdowns, More Gaming Layoffs: Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Friday, May 17, 2024: IRC logs for Friday, May 17, 2024
Links 18/05/2024: KOReader, Benben v0.5.0 Progress Update, and More: Links for the day
[Meme] UEFI 'Secure' Boot Boiling Frog: UEFI 'Secure' Boot: You can just ignore it. You can just turn it off. You can hack on it as a workaround. Just use Windows dammit!
The Market Wants to Delete Windows and Install GNU/Linux, UEFI 'Secure' Boot Must Go!: To be very clear, this has nothing to do with security and those who insist that it is have absolutely no credentials
In the United States Of America the Estimated Share of Google Search Grew After Microsoft's Chatbot Hype (Which Coincided With Mass Layoffs at Bing): Microsoft's chatbot hype started in late 2022
Techrights Will Categorically Object to Any Attempts to Deny Its Right to Publish Informative, Factual Material: we'll continue to publish about 20 pages per day while challenging censorship attempts
Links 17/05/2024: Microsoft Masks Layoffs With Return-to-office (RTO) Mandates, More YouTube Censorship: Links for the day
YouTube Progresses to the Next Level: YouTube is a ticking time bomb
Journalists and Human Rights Groups Back Julian Assange Ahead of Monday's Likely Very Final Decision: From the past 24 hours...
[Meme] George Washington and the Bill of Rights: Centuries have passed since the days of George Washington, but the principles are still the same
Daniel Pocock: "I've Gone to Some Lengths to Demonstrate How Corporate Bad Actors Have Used Amateur-hour Codes of Conduct to Push Volunteers Into Modern Slavery": "As David explains, the Codes of Conduct should work the other way around to regulate the poor behavior of corporations who have been far too close to the Debian Suicide Cluster."
Video of Richard Stallman's Talk From Four Weeks Ago: 2-hour video of Richard Stallman speaking less than a month ago
statCounter Says Twitter/X Share in Russia Fell From 23% to 2.3% in 3 Years: it seems like YouTube gained a lot
Journalist Who Won Awards for His Coverage of the Julian Assange Ordeals Excluded and Denied Access to Final Hearing: One can speculate about the true reason/s
Richard Stallman's Talk, Scheduled for Two Days Ago, Was Not Canceled But Really Delayed: American in Paris
3 More Weeks for Daniel Pocock's Campaign to Win a Seat in European Parliament Elections: Friday 3 weeks from now is polling day
Microsoft Should Have Been Fined and Sanctioned Over UEFI 'Lockout' (Locking GNU/Linux Out of New PCs): Why did that not happen?
Gemini Links 16/05/2024: Microsoft Masks Layoffs With Return-to-office (RTO) Mandates, Cash Issues: Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Thursday, May 16, 2024: IRC logs for Thursday, May 16, 2024
Ex-Red Hat CEO Paul Cormier Did Not Retire, He Just Left IBM/Red Hat a Month Ago (Ahead of Layoff Speculations): Rather than retire he took a similar position at another company
Linux.com Made Its First 'Article' in Over and Month, It Was 10 Words in Total, and It's Not About Linux: play some 'webapp' and maybe get some digital 'certificate' for a meme like 'clown computing'