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Also included: Yahoo’s big hack, Garrett on Lenovo, new Audacious and GNOME, and Ubuntu get’s ready for Yakkety Yak. FOSS Week in Review I spent time this week terminating a Yahoo account I’ve had since way back in the last century. For years, the My Yahoo page was my “home” page […] Continue reading Krebs Goes Down, Opera Gets a VPN & More… 
You’ve owned your printer for a year or more, and have happily used off-brand ink cartridges during that time. Suddenly the manufacturer says you can’t do that anymore, and suddenly orders the printer you own to not accept the ink cartridges of your choosing. Have you tried using you HP printer recently? If […] Continue reading HP Retrofits Ink Cartridge DRM on Printers 
It was easy to place the blame on Microsoft in a knee-jerk reaction — and it didn’t help that a Lenovo representative placed blame firmly in Redmond’s lap. It appears, however, that Microsoft’s not involved, and Lenovo’s not to blame either. The news of the day, so far, has been the speculation that […] Continue reading Surprise! Microsoft Isn’t Blocking Linux on Lenovo Laptops 
A member of the Libreboot development team has painted a picture of a lead developer who is out-of-control. It will probably not come as a surprise to anyone who’s been following the news about Libreboot’s sudden withdrawal from the GNU Project that not everyone connected with the Libreboot project is in agreement with […] Continue reading Discord at Libreboot Over GNU Withdrawal 
Also included: Libreboot leaves GNU, municipal broadband law proposed, Linux’s second 25th birthday, a new distro release, Vim and Emacs both get upgrades, Google’s hack challenge and Oracle can’t catch a break. FOSS Week in Review Yesterday I got a look at some decidedly old tech: Rope beds, pewter being made […] Continue reading Nextcloud’s $79 Box, Vim Gets an Update & More…
Both Richard Stallman and John Sullivan have issued statements concerning the allegations made against the FSF by Libreboot’s lead developer. On Friday we reported that Libreboot’s lead developer, Leah Rowe, had posted a notice to a GNU mailing list, removing her project from GNU. The reason she gave was that a friend employed […] Continue reading FSF Says Firing Wasn’t Discrimatory
So far, this entire story is summed up by the above headline. Until we know more, that’s all we know. A disturbing story broke this morning concerning the sudden action by the Libreboot project to leave the GNU project. I started to write “potentially disturbing,” until it occurred to me that no matter […] Continue reading Libreboot Leaves GNU Claiming Gender Identity Discrimination by FSF Also included: Creative Commons wins in Austria, two new distro releases, a new version for Solus’s Budgie, KDE goes Wayland and Mageia supports DNF. FOSS Week in Review Damn if the days aren’t already getting too short for this old soul who no longer feels comfortable driving after dark. This is […] Continue reading HPE Boosts SUSE, Rootkit Targets Linux & More… |
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