Being famous or infamous isn't a good yardstick, as we've just mentioned in relation to Steve Jobs and Dennis Ritchie. If RMS lived a life of principles and will one day die a principled person, that ...

The "Latest Technology News" for this Saturday: The "Latest Technology News" might as well become a punchline. At Beta'News', marketing spam (for payments through clicks) is "news" and they no longer ...

Sebastian Hetze, Linus Torvalds, and Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie having a conversation at the USENIX Annual Technical ...

Wayland is not much of a "selling point" for a distro in 2025. Wayland by default is a warning label. Distros that adopt Wayland typically adopt it along with X, as the only way to get Wayland to work ...

The blog post mentioned "sponsoring the GNU System and Savannah", among other things: ...

12. “Think of life as it really is, think of the details of life; and then think that there is no meaning in it, no purpose, ...

The interesting part, however, is ChromeOS and GNU/Linux. They're fast approaching 10% of "the market". See the chart above, comparing Windows to GNU/Linux PCs and Chromebooks combined. It is widely ...

Raises About 330,000 Dollars. posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 03, 2025. In the first two days of 2025 the Free ...

Yesterday we showed that in North America adoption of GNU/Linux is growing fast. Windows is down to all-time lows in Canada ...

Older: IBM and Canonical Leave Money on the Table Because Microsoft Pays Them Not to Compete and Instead Market Windows, WSL, Microsoft 'Clown Computing', and TPMs | Free Software Community/Volunteers ...

"Grassroots organization against a corporation as large as Microsoft is never easy. They have the advertising budget to claim that they "love Linux" (sic), not to mention the money and political ...

Software Freedom Conservancy Inc (SFC) Lost Revenue and Also Got Rid of "Senior Director of Diversity and Inclusion" (Sage A Sharp, Formerly Known as Sarah Sharp, Who Ran an Ill-Spirited Campaign ...