http://techrights.org – Summary: The Gates Foundation poisons the little press that exists in Africa using another cash injection which tilts coverage and yields self-censorship THIS MORNING we wrote about Gates' use of AGRA, which he contributed to creating in order to advance his investments in Africa (seeds with patents, expanding a monopoly to more continents). (General)
Email this pagehttp://techrights.org – Summary: Friends and offsprings of Microsoft keep shopping for some of the pillars of the Open Source community, which also weakens the Free software community Black Duck, a proprietary software group with Microsoft roots, is slurping up a lot of open source firms, this time Olliance Group. It’s “more of a Black Ostrich [than a duck] given its size,” remarks Dr. (General)
Email this pagehttp://techrights.org – Summary: Mono trap from Novell entrenched deep inside a ubiquitously-used distribution of GNU/Linux OMG!UBUNTU! not only promoted Banshee but it also jumped the gun when it claimed that the program had been added to the next Ubuntu. Well, only now is it official: he day we’ve all be waiting for has finally arrived. (General)
Email this pagehttp://techrights.org – Summary: How the perception around Mono in GNU/Linux has changed despite bullying and because of persistence with the truth REAL change is hard to bring about. When companies pour millions into marketing, it is usually them who get to determine public perception, which is a multi-trillion-dollar business. (General)
Email this pagehttp://techrights.org – Summary: Another layer of the onion is peeled off to reveal what stinks of Microsoft lobbying MR. Florian Müller is a target because he pretended to be pro-FOSS while he was campaigning against FOSS. This has “ACT” written all over it and, for those who do not know, ACT is a confirmed Microsoft front group. (General)
Email this pagehttp://techrights.org – Direct download as Ogg (1:46:40, 32.0 MB) | Direct download as MP3 (48.8 MB) Summary: Tim, Gordon, and Roy speak about games and make their picks of the year (for 2010) TODAY’S show covers what was missed since last week’s show and OpenBytes has published the show notes with most of the topics and some corresponding links. We hope you will join us for future shows and consider subs (General)
Email this pagehttp://techrights.org – Summary: Microsoft’s outlook for the coming year looks rather grim, even in the eyes of a longtime booster of the software/marketing/litigation giant from Redmond WE HAVE written extensively about Goldman Sachs not because it’s worth commending; it’s quite the opposite in fact, as Goldman Sachs is corrupt and it receives money from Bill Gates (through the Gates Foundation). (General)
Email this pagehttp://techrights.org – Summary: False claim is said to have been spread about Google and the FSF Just when one thinks that GPLv3 FUD from the likes of ACT [1, 2, 3] (Microsoft lobbyist) is years behind, Mac [sic] Asay, who recently left Canonical to join a proprietary software company, engages in revisionism, perhaps sloppily rather than intentionally (he never acts maliciously). Red Hat’s Harish Pillay redents (General)
Email this pagehttp://techrights.org – Summary: A tad philosophical take on what needs achieving and how The absolute goalposts which define personal freedom never truly change; it’s the obstructions on the way to the goal which keep moving away and showing up, so the struggle for freedom is eternal. (General)
Email this pagehttp://techrights.org – Contents GNU/Linux Distributions Devices/Embedded Free Software/Open Source Leftovers Clip of the Day GNU/Linux Desktop The outlook for Windows 7 with Google Chrome coming up Microsoft Windows owned 91 percent of the PC operating system market in 2009, and IDC expects it to drop by 1 percent by 2014. Mac, which had 4 percent in 2009, is expected to increase to 5 percent by 2014. (General)
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