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No, It's Not FOSS

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 19, 2023,

updated Dec 19, 2023

From the past few days alone (we covered many more examples in the past):

Also new:

Wow, what a mouthful. Let's examine these in turn.

Openwashing?

They're helping Microsoft EEE with mindless propaganda like "Microsoft loves Linux" and other ruinous lies.

FOSS could be promoted instead. There's no lack of FOSS Web browsers (Falkon, for instance, is still being improved), but this is part of a pattern at "It's FOSS".

It's Not FOSS

It's FOSS News site

Celeste: A Multi-Cloud Open-Source GUI File Sync Client in Rust: Dash, no link to project or source code

'Wow! Microsoft Windows AI Studio Needs Linux to Work' - perpetuating lies: No, It's Windows (WSL) and not FOSS; Also AI Studio is not FOSS

Vivaldi 6.5 Releases With Future-Ready Features: 'Vivaldi is a non FOSS solution with its UI side of things as closed source.' So why cover it?

I'd like to interject for a moment.... 6 days ago: Reference to fake (fictional) RMS quote; 'Open Source' is an attack on GNU

"I'd like to interject for a moment..." is a fake, harmful reference; the Free Software Foundation (FSF) responded to that years ago.