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Software in the Public Interest, Inc. (SPI), publisher of Debian™ GNU/Linux and Debian™ GNU/kFreeBSD™ has reached an agreement in its longstanding trade dress dispute with the Mozilla Corporation, publisher of the Firefox application suite. Under the agreement, SPI will pay an undisclosed sum to the Mozilla Corp. and periodically turn over marketing data regarding SPI's customers. In exchange, SPI will receive a nonexclusive license to distribute the Firefox suite as part of SPI's Debian™ products.
SPI agreed not to alter the branding of the Firefox suite; not to disable its Pocket integration; not to alter the suite's anti-phishing or search features, which are sponsored by Mozilla Corp. partners; and to discontinue its competing Iceweasel Web suite, which is based on Mozilla Corp. software licensed under a previous accord. The Firefox suite will be provided to SPI's Debian™ customers as an automatic update via the firm's Dpkg℠ service. The updates will go out over the course of the next three months to groups of randomly selected customers, in order to provide what SPI calls "a superior upgrade experience."
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 02 2016, @05:52PM
what IS going on with debian?
It is time, so I will point this out because you asked and it is the truth even though most of you don't want to admit it.
Social Justice Warriors have infiltrated Mozilla, Ubuntu, and Debian. They are targeting new languages and pushing for "community covenants" and such to control speech and who is and isn't allowed in the projects. Remember when the CEO of Mozilla was forced to step down due to political "wrong-think"? They have even tried to get Linus Torvalds and other prominent FLOSS figureheads into compromising positions to leverage false rape claims (many leaders acknowledge this).
Free Software is under attack from SJWs, just as the gaming scene is under siege. They want to control every outlet of expression. Indie games are made by small teams of typically unorthodox rulebreakers, so they had to attack them through controlling game journalism, hence Gamergate happened when it boiled over thanks to the purposeful actions of Zoe Quinn (contrary to popular belief ZQ has always been pro-GG, she's an old school troll and got 4chan and reddit to do her bidding and attack the gaming press she hated [wordpress.com] Don't take my word for it, these are her own words where she admits she just wanted to tear down the false meritocracy and make games less "gatekeepery" it's from the 2nd image down on the TL;DR page of TheZoePost which kicked off #gamergate, but few ever read it). The point is. The west is at culture war with Marxist SJWs, we have our spies in their camps too, their useful idiot underlings are just as easy to manipulate as the average techie dope who can't bring themselves to believe the shit I'm saying. All mainstream western media outlets have been thoroughly compromised by censorious leftist extremists, which is where the term Political Correctness comes from. [youtube.com] The sooner the public wakes up to the kind and source of subversion being employed, the better. [youtube.com]
The longer you fail to admit the current state of 4th generation warfare [wikipedia.org], the more battleground you will lose for fear of sounding like a conspiracy theorist. In truth, normals are enslaved to the conspiracy, and so they can not see the undercurrents of underlings and subprocesses as the Subgeni can. They don't even know the true origin of slack, [youtube.com] let alone slackware. The average pinkboy has no idea who truly values being Anonymous [youtube.com], they become tools of the enemy because they have forgotten to foster the ideological roots of the Hacker. [catb.org] Those who were fighting the culture war since the second world war gave birth to the concept of enshrouding truth in fiction, making flippant moves with secret motive, and to applying an ideological litmus test through affinity with certain (sometimes ridiculous) themes. This is how our movement has remained masked. Now the battle is at your doorsteps, and the time is approaching to enlist even the willful idiot lest their comfortable ignorance be painfully disrupted by the subversive totalitarian menace. Say the things that need to be said, fear not the shaming tactics of the social rulemakers. You will either fight or the things you love will die. The shadow war will rage on regardless of the outcome.
Hint:It's no mistake that Slackware is still around despite its higher barrier to entry, nor that it avoids systemd; The social filters we built have been working quite well up to this point. Linus's project is successful because he also employs a social filter via harsh critique and inflexible set of sane demands (eg: never break userland). Now the bulwarks we once bolstered to protect FLOSS against waves of subversion from this culture war are being dismantled by the enemy, and so you will seeing more and more casualties fall to the authoritarians who embrace the evil conspiracy.
- Posted from a Slackware slackstation.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by http on Saturday April 02 2016, @06:39PM
Please, do everyone, especially yourself, a favour and go sit in a daffodil patch for six hours. Preferably in sunshine. If you typed that from scratch, get help. If you copied and pasted it, get better help, because you saved it especailly for this occasion meaning you don't simply have bad intent and poor impulse control.
I browse at -1 when I have mod points. It's unsettling.
(Score: 4, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 02 2016, @07:42PM
Your shaming tactics are transparent and useless, meatpuppet.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 02 2016, @07:51PM
The truth fears no investigation. The post you're replying to has sources to back up its claims. Where the evidence of claimed malicious intent? Why are you afraid of their post? It is only information, it can't harm you. Relax, you are being hypersensitive and derisive for no apparent reason.
Perhaps you should take your own advice and rest on your laurels.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 02 2016, @08:47PM
Surely you jest. That or you are painfully ignorant of the predilections embraced by the Hacker ethos:
"In Tirades Veritas", heathen! [flavourcountry.net]
(Truth in tirades.)
Praise Bob!
(Score: 2) by bitstream on Sunday April 03 2016, @06:53AM
Unless you can disprove what the person above writes. I'm more inclined to think you either is a useful zombie or have something to hide.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 02 2016, @07:59PM
They have even tried to get Linus Torvalds and other prominent FLOSS figureheads into compromising positions to leverage false rape claims (many leaders acknowledge this).
Surprisingly, this seems legit.
Here's a post from Eric Raymond about it. [ibiblio.org]
I received a disturbing warning today from a source I trust.
The short version is: if you are any kind of open-source leader or senior figure who is male, do not be alone with any female, ever, at a technical conference. Try to avoid even being alone, ever, because there is a chance that a “women in tech” advocacy group is going to try to collect your scalp.
It's sort of amusing, if not absurd, to entertain the idea that parody religions are somehow part of an underground resistance. The link about 4th gen warfare is intriguing because it supports the idea of citizenry being used as active "war" assets. If true, it's a very strange new world we live in.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 02 2016, @08:59PM
have you read the bob dobbs books?
Fighting the man/the system/brand-x has been going on for a while.
the SJW thing is just another format, as are tea partiers. I don't want to say one is far left and one is far right; that's not nuanced enough. But it's clear that when us or them stopped working, they came up with a still us and still them after the respective movements were compromised.
the 99%s can't be subgenii by the very nature, but many subgenii are 99% or 1%ers that came from the 99%. Few natural born 1%ers see humor in slack, fewer understand its context.
The thing with slack is that they make it so perposterous, it is easy to dismiss. Much of it is a filter; as much as it'd be great if everyone had slack awareness... it's best to keep out those that do not. Anyway, i think a good anthem for the bob dobbs/slack disciples would be the Devo song "we're through being cool". it very effectively sums up, humorously, what many of the problems are. they also recognize the state of affairs in "beautiful world"...
embracing slack is a new tradition, so to speak... but not enough people have embraced it, partially because they just don't see the world that way.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 02 2016, @08:04PM
E.S.R. is that you? [ibiblio.org]
Why Hackers Must Eject the SJWs
The hacker culture, and STEM in general, are under ideological attack. Recently I blogged a safety warning that according to a source I consider reliable, a “women in tech” pressure group has made multiple efforts to set Linus Torvalds up for a sexual assault accusation. I interpreted this as an attempt to beat the hacker culture into political pliability, and advised anyone in a leadership position to beware of similar attempts.
(Score: 2) by bitstream on Sunday April 03 2016, @07:20AM
Set up a 8-bit computer in the lobby where everyone has to hack their way into the meeting to ensure that merit still exists?
Time for some filtering in IRL. Anyone with ideas?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 03 2016, @04:04AM
while many of your points are valid, i stopped using firefox because it was planning to have ads in the browser. when somebody targets my demographic, i take it seriously and would not give them more money. without ads, the issue is moot.
while i despite the sjw agenda, if you attempt to deprive me of the freedom to present as my gender with lethal force, due to some biological loophole you've found, i will retaliate with lethal force. Really, that's regardless. The feminists are as much of a threat to my demographic as anti-sjws.
i don't know where this sjw/anti-sjw thing is going. the sjws are obviously wrong. yet, just like the sjws you keep missing the target.
yeah, i know where you're going with this. feminism => marxism. lgbt security and rights against violence => marxism. therefore feminism => lgbt identities. we'll see what my gun says when you try to deprive me of my property.
you need to study your history boy.