Based on this month's South American data from statCounter, not only did GNU/Linux rise to unprecedented highs (4% by ...

The passkeys, an associate reminds us, are vendor lock-in plus increased surveillance. Also revisit this article: US Government Already Bailing Out OpenAI/Microsoft With "Contracts", As Usual, Back ...

One more statistic of interest for today comes from statCounter, based on data it has from Africa: Pay careful attention to ...

Microsoft's CEO is Hyping Up 'AI' (Plagiarism) to Distract From Falling Interest in It and Missed Expectations (Investors Run Out of Patience as Reality Does Not Meet or Match Early False Promises) ...

The curve is quite revealing. In China, in India, and in Asia in general Android (Linux) still gains. But China makes its own operating systems; statCounter does not detect them properly (or even ...

RMS is right about the US. He's also aware of the problem with UK libel law - a remnant of imperial times, just like D-notices, a "typically British fudge that has survived a century". * They're both ...

Yesterday we said that Microsoft's lying President is now lying out loud about some sort of "commitment" to Europe. This won't work, even if Microsoft gets some incredulous fools in the Atlantic ...

Having just covered Europe and its shift to GNU/Linux at the front end and the back end (to the point Microsoft feels as if it must urgently manipulate European media and to mindless spread obvious ...

In better news, after a very long time offline [ 1, 2] Groklaw is back. It used to be an Internet joke that SCO keeps coming back from the dead; now it's Groklaw: ...

As the associate recalls, "FOSS was defacto at universities through to the early 00s. Microsoft got a foot in the door in the ...

All the people who SLAPPed [ 1, 2] us are basically crazy people who do crazy things to people. If there's insufficient room in the US prison system, they should at least be candidates for a mental ...