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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.

Today, as of a few hours ago, statCounter measures GNU/Linux at just 0.01% below a value that would have it rounded up(wards) to 4.5%

In some ways this reminds us of Novell

Many devices never get updated or even communicate with the Net, so exhaustive tallies are infeasible.

There was a panic to remove references to Albanian from the GNOME Foundation web site

THE Linux Foundation almost never chooses the GPL (it didn't choose it for Linux or Git) and it's hardly surprising given the true controllers of this so-called 'charitable' (not!) foundation. Bruce Perens said that “Linux Foundation is an infringer's club.” They dislike the GPL, but sometimes they merely inherit it.

The state of online journalism is worsening very rapidly this year

They just attack the messenger without ever answering the message.

One might argue this data points to a silent exodus from Windows to GNU/Linux

In April 2024, internal emails from Mozilla were published about the harassment scandals in Debian and the Balkan countries

I was invited to go and spend weekend time as a speaker at the OSCAL conference. The request to support harassment victims was not something that was anticipated.

Windows is down, Android is surging, and even GNU/Linux is doing reasonable well.

Microsoft already has many problems. One day Microsoft won't exist anymore. But that does not guarantee users' freedom.

For a lot of software on GNU/Linux, it is nowadays not possible to install/use without systemd

Cox isn't limited to hardcore kernel stuff, having also worked on GNOME and X.Org. Unlike Torvalds, he's not shy to use the "F" word (freedom).

Can Free software bridge the economic gap? Well, it certainly can help. Removing financial barriers can help a lot. That can also help people from underprivileged communities or developing (poor) countries get involved, either as developers or something else.

One must therefore assume they have nothing to say in their defence (covering up severe security failings). IMAGINE something very damaging being presented, with full context, based on original material, right from the horse's own mouth. One might expect, at the very least, a face-saving statement, such as "well, that was a long time ago" or "we learned our lessons"...Well, Debian does not work that way. Instead, like a cult, it only attacked the messenger.

Maybe the key point was to say "Linux is not secure either" or "Windows and Linux are equally vulnerable", so don't bother dumping Microsoft.