The OSI really had one or two jobs, which are interconnected; one was to approve "Open Source" licences sent its way and the other was to "enforce" or "protect" the brand (an overlapping task).

Microsoft is bleeding and it does not show even a glimmer of hope, unless of course one subscribes to this "broligarch" ...

The Register MS does not always get paid to produce lies about "AI" or to try to sell Windows. Sometimes it tries to do journalism about real issues, but the words that it keeps using are wrong, ...

Akira Urushibata recently wrote to libreplanet-discuss, which hadn't been active for 2 months ( he was the last person to write to it back in November ). His latest message is a bit like an article ...

Given that Microsoft has PIPs and employs many people temporarily and/or on contracts (as "contractors", "temps", or "perma-temps" - a contradiction for sure), the real extent of the layoffs is ...

Stick to the Science, the Facts, the Observable Reality. posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 07, 2026. Crossposted from Tux Machines. Science is not a new concept. Science is not a r ...

Central African Republic President Faustin-Archange Touadera has secured a third term after the December 28 election, consolidating his rule in a country long plagued by instability. The vote was ...

Put bluntly, slop is for lazy and sloppy lawmakers who wish not to do their job but to cheat. We need to treat them no better than plagiarists; they're not "embracing innovation", they just fake doing ...

Trying to catch up with stupid, misguided trends, Slideshare recently added slop as "description": Ah....... no. That's Dennis Ritchie, a colleague of Ken Thompson. Be sure fools will rewrite history ...

Any money gained is spent buying some more companies to add/join up their revenue, even if the debt surges and there's little integration going on (misfits absorbed) ...

Today we noticed that the developer of the GNU/Linux distro AnduinOS had left Microsoft. To quote: "The developer behind the project, who previously worked at Microsoft, stated that the 1.3 branch is ...

These economics are very dangerous, but the media never mentions these issues. I spoke about this with financial experts and they too agree. It's a huge bubble that's waiting to implode. IBM will ...