Today in Techrights

• EPO Cannot Handle Patent Justice With a Backlog of About 10,000 Cases at the Boards of Appeal
• The European Patent Office Increases Surveillance: Can’t Get Food Without Being Spied on
• To GNU/Linux, the Operating System, GAFAM (Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft) is Not the Threat. Microsoft is.
• The Free Software Foundation (FSF) Has the Full Support of Techrights
• Why We Support Phoronix (Whereas Some Others Do Not)
• Guarding and Rescuing the FSF Titanic: The Simplest Ways that AI will Change Computing
• Links 20/8/2019: DragonFlyBSD Developing DSynth

IBM: OpenPOWER Foundation, Savings and the OpenStack Platform

• OpenPOWER Foundation | The Next Step in the OpenPOWER Foundation Journey

  Today marks one of the most important days in the life of the OpenPOWER Foundation. With IBM announcing new contributions to the open source community including the POWER Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) and key hardware reference designs at OpenPOWER Summit North America 2019, the future has never looked brighter for the POWER architecture. OpenPOWER Foundation Aligns with Linux Foundation The OpenPOWER Foundation will now join projects and organizations like OpenBMC, CHIPS Alliance, OpenHPC and so many others within the Linux Foundation. The Linux Foundation is the premier open source group, and we’re excited to be working more closely with them. Since our founding in 2013, IEEE-ISTO has been our home, and we owe so much to its team. It’s as a result of IEEE-ISTO’s support and guidance that we’ve been able to expand to more than 350 members and that we’re ready to take the next step in our evolution. On behalf of our membership, our board of directors and myself, we place on record our thanks to the IEEE-ISTO team. By moving the POWER ISA under an open model – guided by the OpenPOWER Foundation within the Linux Foundation – and making it available to the growing open technical commons, we’ll enable innovation in the open hardware and software space to grow at an accelerated pace. The possibilities for what organizations and individuals will be able to develop on POWER through its mature ISA and software ecosystem will be nearly limitless.

• How Red Hat delivers $7B in customer savings

  This spring, Red Hat commissioned IDC to conduct a new study to analyze the contributions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux to the global business economy. While many of the findings were impressive, including immense opportunities for partners, we were especially excited to learn more about how our customers benefit from Red Hat Enterprise Linux. According to the study, the world’s leading enterprise Linux platform "touches" more than $10 trillion of business revenues worldwide each year and provides economic benefits of more than $1 trillion each year to customers. Nearly $7 billion of that number comes in the form of IT savings. Even more exciting? As hybrid cloud adoption grows, we expect customers to continue to benefit given the importance of a common, flexible and open operating system to IT deployments that span the many footprints of enterprise computing.

• The road ahead for the Red Hat OpenStack Platform

  If you didn't have a chance to attend our Road Ahead session at Red Hat Summit 2019 (or you did, but want a refresher) you'll want to read on for a quick update. We'll cover where Red Hat OpenStack Platform is today, where we're planning to go tomorrow, and the longer-term plan for Red Hat OpenStack Platform support all the way to 2025. A strategic part of our portfolio Red Hat OpenStack Platform is a strategic part of Red Hat's vision for open hybrid cloud. It's the on-prem foundation that can help organizations bridge the gap between today's existing workloads and emerging workloads. In fact, it just earned the 2019 CODiE award for "Best Software Defined Infrastructure." One of those emerging workloads, and more on the rest in a moment, is Red Hat OpenShift.

Android Leftovers

• Google stops sending Android cell signal data over privacy concerns

• Google stops providing carriers with Android data to avoid privacy issues – report

• Google tightens grip on some Android data over privacy fears, report says

• Google was sharing Android user location data with carriers worldwide

• Google shut down a secret Android location data service for US carriers

• Google shuts down Android phone data service for wireless carriers

• Google stops sharing Android user data that helped carriers plan coverage

• Mate 20 Pro update: Android fans may have got their best look at Huawei’s next flagship

• Can Huawei's Harmony Match Up to Android?

• After pulling back Mi MIX 2 Android Pie 9.0 update, Xiaomi releases new build with July security patch

• Samsung releases Android Pie update for the Galaxy Tab S3 and Tab A (2017)

• HTC U11, U11+ & U12+ Android Pie update only available for a few units

• Nokia 3 V budget Android phone launching on Verizon

• JBL Link Bar review: Android TV in a soundbar is a fantastic idea that JBL very nearly nails

• Sling TV is Updating Its Fire TV & Android TV Apps Plus Offer a Free AirTV Mini if You Prepay

Is Fedora Linux a Good Distro? The 15 Best Reasons to Use Fedora Linux

It goes without saying that Fedora Linux is one of the best Linux distributions and significantly distinct with its properties. There is no denying that it is an enticing version of Linux and there are enough reasons to be lured with the Fedora. It offers far ranges of features that have made it an undeniable choice for the users. There is a close and intimate collaboration between Fedora and “Redhat” what has given a new dimension of this Linux version. It is more comfortable to use, user-friendly and latest technology oriented; thus, there are many obvious reasons for loving in it. [...] The various distribution of Linux system is recognized for easy-going properties, albeit Fedora is the easiest one in this context. Having an easier interface, users are capable of dealing with it very easily since the boot phase. When the boot is done, users will be guided with simple features to run it the way they desire.