Response to a troll for the opportunity to say publicly why — in 2015 — I stopped saying “GNU/Linux”:

I say “Linux-based systems” — which I also recommended for SFC's stylesheet.

I ceased saying “ga-new-slash-lynn-ox” when Richard Stallman (RMS) chastised me for saying “Linux” (but not “GNU”) in a post about VMWare's #GPL violation. I *had* mentioned GNU GPL;no GNU software was in their product.

RMS told me I harmed #GNU every time I didn't footnote the word “Linux” & explain GNU/Linux.
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I have something else to be thankful for today. At this moment in time I am busy restoring functionality on systems so that I will be able to resume important remote tasks, which shall enable me to restore the level that I am used to, when it comes down to actual value of goods

This work is highly specialized and needs a set of computing systems, communication systems which use GSM messaging systems and other means of signalling, in order to properly Act, monitor react and deploy the remote systems, of which a set of those are managed deployed monitored and configured through Proxmox.

@gyptazy has made incredibly wonderful contributions to the community of Open Source and I'm specifically highlighting his work in for example the great Proxmox load balancer.

Through the Work Of Him and other hundreds to thousands nameless Open Source coders, programmers en hackers am I able to do this work.

I am fortunate enough to have virtually met him here on the FediVerse through a beautiful forward that @stefano has made.

Without the work of this incredible people none of this would have been possible. I would be sitting watching this beautiful scenery that I would have made myself with props

There would not be any Open Source Operating System driving the displays.

Being Grateful is important. Giving Thanks sends a beautifully modulated Pulse of Energy through the Universe to everyone.

I am thankful to you all

@mccoysmith

Suggesting, as you did, that Big Tech is an ally in “right to repair” is classic cooption — same kind of cooption that led to Big Tech exploiting #FOSS,not complying with #copyleft & #GPL …even while spokespeople & lawyers for Big Tech lament that FOSS “isn't sustainable”.

r0ml once put it well as “free as in market, not free as in ride”. Problem is:Big Tech doesn't want a free & fair market for FOSS,so there is no way they want that for right to repair either.
Cc: @wwahammy @josh

There's a gamut of developments at the CaliXos community.

Most of them are good for the individuals involved, but not for the continuity of the Operating System as the whole.

You shall not be able to update your device anymore you will have to transition to another operating system which is still supported for your particular device.

CaliXos supports 25 + devices.

From what I have gathered by briefly reading the statement, programming patching and development has been frozen until further notice

TLDR {Too long didn't read} you have to install another operating system if you are running CaliXos

#OpenSource #OperatingSystem #CaliXos #Android #programming #alternative #Free #as #in #Beer #POSIX #GNU #GPL #development #Freeze

https://calyxos.org/news/2025/08/01/a-letter-to-our-community/

@glynmoody #Microsoft does have one viable solution, and it would require relinquishing some control. It would work like this:

1. Pay a European law firm to create an independent (i.e., non-subsidiary—not owned or controlled by Microsoft or any of its officers) #EU corporation; call it something like "Microsoft Europe." That corporation must have solely EU-resident EU citizens constituting its officers (board, directors, and voting shareholders).
2. Irrevocably license all Microsoft [US] IP involved in software or services used by EU principals to Microsoft Europe, as part of a contractual agreement requiring Microsoft Europe to follow Microsoft [US] direction except as contraindicated by EU or member-state law. Agree to allow Microsoft Europe to relicense under EU, rather than US, law, whenever providing products or services to EU customers, then have Microsoft Europe do so.
3. Include with the license all complete and corresponding source code (by the #GPL definition), and include in the contract an NDA prohibiting any reuse or redistribution of all but the open-source parts of that source code except as strictly necessary (by the #GDPR definition) to fulfil license or contractual obligations to EU customers or to comply with EU or member state law.
4. Charge licensing feeds to Microsoft Europe equal to everything in excess of their operating costs (just enough personnel to fulfil licenses and contracts to EU suppliers and customers, plus EU-based insurance and legal services). Then Microsoft [US] is out no more revenue than necessary to run an office.
5. As the foregoing isolate Microsoft Europe legally and through disjoint org charts, isolate digital systems through cryptography. Make it mathematically impossible for Microsoft [US] to violate EU or member state law regarding EU data, as only Microsoft Europe would be able to access the cryptographic keys controlling confidentiality, availability, or integrity of EU data.

The net effect: for the cost of perhaps a few to several million Euros, is that Microsoft [US] could maintain status quo the EU, except insofar as becoming unable to violate EU or member state law at the behest of the US government. The same model can be replicated in other jurisdictions, such as #Canada, and by other multinational digital services providers, such as #Alphabet (Google).

To make this happen, EU (and other) governments can require it as a condition of continuing to do business with Microsoft (and other multinationals).

Maintaining a monolithic multinational corporation is the legal equivalent of maintaining a flat network. Internationally federating a multinational corporation is the legal equivalent of maintaining a well segmented network. In the coming years, US-based Big Tech companies will need to firewall their non-US operations off from themselves, as outline above. And non-US governments will need to mandate that. The sanctioning of the #ICC was already proof of that necessity.

An awesome update is coming up by the programmers of KDE KDEnlive

#OpenSource #POSIX #GNU #GPL #KDE #NLE

https://kdenlive.org/news/2025/2508-rc/