• IBM Not the Only ‘Sugar Daddy’ of GNU/Linux

• Secret Deals — Not GnuTLS — a Threat to GNU/Linux Security

• Red Hat Joins the Joke Which is Amazon’s ‘Secure’ Federal ‘Cloud’

• Fedora 21 Release Just 7 Months Away

• Debian’s Importance is Growing

• Arch Linux is Becoming More Mainstream

• MDV News: OpenMandriva Lx 2014 on Its Way, Mageia Has Issue, PCLinuxOS Has New Magazine

• Leaving Windows to Rot

• Privacy, Spying on Congress, Drones, Ukraine Intervention, and More

• A Parade of (GNU/)Linux-powered Mobile Operating Systems

• Patent Stacking by Microsoft, Apple, Nokia et al. Makes Android/Linux More Expensive, Less Competitive

• You Know That Microsoft is Finished When Even Rupert Murdoch Dumps Microsoft

• Bitcoin Increasingly Adopted, Increasingly Smeared

• GoDaddy, Go Away: How This SOPA Backer is Censoring the Internet Despite SOPA's Death

• GNU/Linux Everywhere: New Stories, More Evidence

• An Android World: Limitless Expansion in Tablets, Smaller Devices, and New Hardware

• Ubuntu Rising: Desktops, Servers, Phones, and Beyond

• Linux News: 3.14 RC5, LTSI v3.10, kGraft...

• KDE News: New Releases, Qt 5.3 Preview, Indian Event, End of Nepomuk, Steam Inclusion, and Success Down Under

• GNOME News: GNOME 3.12, Wayland, Numix, GTK+...

• News About Lesser Known Desktop Environments

• This Week's News: Civil Rights, Politics and War

• If Ford Wants Open Source Community, It Should Embrace Neither Microsoft Nor Blackberry

• Embedded Linux News Roundup

• The Continued Occupation of US ‘Trade’ by Microsoft- and Monopolies-backed Entities Like BSA

• Open Source Initiative, Free Software Foundation, SFLC, Red Hat and Others Fight Against Software Patents at SCOTUS Level

• Richard Stallman Talks About Facebook ‘Useds’

• Deception Watch: AstroTurf, Lobbying, and Dirty Politics

• Open Hardware and Shareable Design News

• Finance Update: Bitcoin, the War on the Poor, AstroTurf by the Rich, and More

• Privacy and Human Rights Watch: Peeping Crown, Extradition, EU Resistance to Drones, and More

• Another Day of High-Level Abuses: Microsoft Kinect a Target of Spooks, Apple-PRISM Allegations, Ukraine Interventions…

• Snowden Leaks Confirm That Microsoft Xbox is Target for In-House Camera Surveillance, Not Just Chat Surveillance

• Leftovers: Cybervandalism in China, US/UK, Destabilisation of Ukraine and Militarism

• Tizen and Samsung

• Journalists Should Stop Spreading Baseless Speculations That Microsoft Makes Billions From Android

• Elop Confirms That He Was Working for Microsoft All Along (Mole Inside Nokia)

• Kernel News: 3.14 Release Candidate 4, Systemd 209, AMD Free Software, More Benchmarks

• Erosion of Rights: Latest Headlines

• Response to ODF as Government Standard Proposal

• Being Against Crime is Not Being Zealous

• Abuses of Rights: News About Surveillance, Torture, and Assassination

I noticed a huge pop in my web stats for today and wondered why. The cause was a link on Tux Machines. There was a recent change of ownership. Now Dr. Roy Schestowitz and Rianne Schestowitz seem to be the main authours. In a couple of days they produced a huge number of informative articles mostly links to diverse sites advocating FLOSS and GNU/Linux. I love it.

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• Many Are Moving to GNU/Linux, So Microsoft is Trying to Make it

• The Increasing Danger of Back Doors in Standards and Binary Blobs

• Microsoft Perception Management Continues at 'New' Slashdot

• Patent Troll Nokia Pretends to Have Real Products by Ripping Off Android

• Sending Letters to Stop Microsoft's Attack on Real Standards in

• Richard Stallman Explains His Account in Identi.ca and Distributed Social Networks

• Netflix Killed the Free Web With DRM, Now Kills Net Neutrality

• Intelligence Abuses: Ombudsman Spied on, Phone Data Sold, Bugging by Media, Espionage, Monarchy, PRISM, Lawsuits...

• Zeitgeist of Human Rights: Dissent and Journalism as Terrorism, Death Penalty for Suspicion, Torture Without Borders

• Ubuntu Makes Many Headlines Again, This Time Because of Real Phones

• Good Advocacy by the Linux Foundation Stresses the Jobs Effect, But Should Mention GNU Also

• In Another Attempt to Derail British ODF Policy Microsoft Calls Its Systematic Bribery "Internationally Recognised"

• Latest Examples of Public Sector Moves to Free Software

• 'Cloud' Watch: ownCloud, CloudStack, OpenStack, Hadoop and More

• Death of Privacy: Lync in PRISM, Intel Dodges Questions on Back Doors, WhatsApp Joins PRISM, Censorship/Surveillance

• Police and Army: Not Protecting and Not Serving Ordinary People

• Samsung Capitulates to Rights Violations Amid Undermined Federal Laws and Obligatory Kill Switches
• No Need for Microsoft Inside GNU/Linux, Demand for Microsoft/Windows is Diminishing
• Verizon Makes the Death of Net Neutrality in the US More Official
• Free Software News Roundup: Careers, Liberations, and Lots More
• Anti-'Terror' Squads for the War on Sharing
• Security News: Education, DDoS, Linksys, SpamAssassin Release…
• Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday News: The Descent to Totality

• Mandriva Family is Doing Fine in Russia and Elsewhere

• Red Hat News: Hortonworks, Server, and Fedora

• Links: New Distributions and Selecting a Distribution

• CMS News: Drupal, WordPress and Others

• The Age of Microsoft-Funded Misinformation About Android/Google/Chrome OS/Linux

• Nadella is Not in Charge of Microsoft, the Big Criminals Are Still in Charge

• NSA/PRISM on Steroids: Microsoft Lync

• Embedded Computing/Devices Leave Windows in the Dust

• Big Milestones in the World of Android/Linux

• Non-Android Mobile Linux: Jolla, Tizen, WebOS and Firefox OS Gain Momentum

• Patents ‘Reform’ Debate Still Controlled by Corporations, Price of GNU/Linux Servers at Stake

• War on Everything (Minds, Lawyers, Journalists, Gamers, Surfers, Foreigners)

• Linux in the News: New RC, Steve Jobs’ Offer to Torvalds Recalled, OpenDaylight Summit…

• GNOME 3.12, GNOME 3.11.5, KDE Frameworks 5 Alpha, Kubuntu 14.04 Alpha 2, Kubuntu Derivatives, Desktop Poll

• Latest Headlines About Surveillance and Drone Strikes

• GNU/Linux: It’s Not Just for Desktops

• When ‘Get a Job’ Means Study GNU/Linux and Contribute to Free Software

• Linux Deepin/Ubuntu in the Future of China, Showing the Great Power of Debian

• Chromebooks Run GNU/Linux But Don’t Offer Freedom

• Mozilla Responds to Controversy Over Embedded Ads in Firefox

• Proprietary Software Turns Users Into Informants Against Their Neighbours

• Programming News Picks: Focus on Free Software

• UEFI Booster Intel Could Not Even Bother Making GNU/Linux Bootable on NUC

• The Scam Which is ZDNet/CBS: Not Reporting the Real Crimes

“The H-Online UK archive appears to be up again,” said David Gerard from Wikipedia, “with old URLs working.” Fantastic!

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• Historical Week for Debian and Ubuntu (a Look Back)

• Richard Stallman Talks About Diaspora and Whether It’s Worth Joining

• Skynet Watch in the Media (Friday)

• Weekend News: Surveillance, Espionage, Foreign Policy, and Assassination Debate

• Report: Microsoft's Vista 8 at Less Than 3% Market Share in Rising China, Which Apparently Builds on Linux

• Installing GNU/Linux is Still Hard Due to UEFI

• Boycott of Slashdot is Protesting Against Dice Policies

• A Defunct Economy That Systematically Passes Wealth to the Rich

• Health Watch: Sleep, Pesticides, Legalised Drug Cartels, GMO, and Major Cuts to Health

• Environment Watch: Extinction, Pollution, and Business Lobby Against Reforms

• Skynet Watch: Oppression Grows, New Smears (Libel) Against Snowden

• ‘Windroid’ is NSA-Powered, Not Linux-powered, and Real Nokia Phones (Not Microsoft ‘Nokia’) Are Only Jolla

• The Unethical Business of Semi ‘Open Source’ (Proprietary Disguised as Open)

• Dice is Dicing Slashdot to Bits

• Mozilla Sells Out

• DRM is Protectionism and Misuse of Laws, Nothing Technical

• Censorship Watch: Turkey Follows the UK, France, Not the Other Way Around

• Elusive Freedom: How Society is Growing More Oppressive Rather Than Progressive

• News Roundup: Privacy, Surveillance, and Assassination

• Now Might be a Good Time to Give Arch Linux a Try

• KDE Watch: KDE in the Spotlight, New KDE 4.12 Release

• GNOME Watch: Despite New Delays, The GNOME Desktop Excites

• GNU/Linux Desktop Environments Continue to Multiply

• Skynet Watch: From Targeting Terrorists to Targeting Protesters and From Foreign to Domestic

• Latest News About Surveillance, Torture, and Assassination

• Recent News About GNU/Linux on Servers

• New Articles About GNU/Linux Success on Desktops

• Linux News Roundup (Kernel)

• DARPA Fuels Debate Over Whether Freedom and Militarism Can Co-exist

• A Rare Moment of Sobriety: Paul Thurrott Decides to be Objective

• Recent News From the World of Ubuntu

• What Debian Does is a Very Big Deal

• Microsoft Nokia is Now Extorting Android, Harming Android

• Richard Stallman Explains His Position on Google

• Techrights Joins ‘The Day We Fight Back’

• Skynet Watch: Surveillance for Assassination

• Links 10/2/2013: Drones, War on Protest, Innovative Torture, and Politics of Leaks

• Privacy Links 10/2/2013: State Surveillance, Private Surveillance, and ‘Dirty Tricks’