Damn Israel and damn the war a thousand times! All the aid that entered was cigarettes 🚬, and hospitals and clinics lack medicine and disinfectants, as well as basic food supplies. If it had entered, prices would have decreased. 😡😡😡😡😡
This is their policy of genocide in all its forms; a state of evil and terrorism.
@gazaverified @aral @fabio

#Gaza #palestine #genocide #Israel #freepalestine #freeGaza #fyp #help #helpingfamilies #Urgent #MutualAidBoost #openwashing

Hablemos un poco del «Open Washing», la práctica de publicar tecnología, software o IA como si fuera de código abierto o software libre cuando realmente no lo es. Redis, Terraform,
ElasticSearch o Android son algunos ejemplos de esto. Sabrán disculpar la calidad del audio, se me rompió el 🎙️ cuando empecé a grabar este episodio.

https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/dmurana/episodes/Open-Washing--parece-cdigo-abierto-pero-no-lo-es-e3j2dt5

#podcast #opensource #softwarelibre #openwashing #codigoabierto

Open Washing, parece código abierto pero no lo es by Cosas de Damián

Hablemos un poco del «Open Washing», la práctica de publicar tecnología, software o IA como si fuera de código abierto o software libre cuando realmente no lo es. Sabrán disculpar la calidad del audio, se me rompió el 🎙️ cuando empecé a grabar este episodio.Enlaces de interés:- https://opensource.org/- https://forrt.org/glossary/english/open_washing/Me puedes contactar a través de los medios disponibles en ⁠mi blog⁠ (https://damian.murana.uy) o en el Fediverso en @[email protected].

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Do you remember the surprise announcement of a new social network in Davos this past January? Something that promised to be the "first" European social network?

Its name is #WSocial and it's a fork of #Bluesky. Its founders have ties with European politicians - but there is no official involvement by the EU.

You wouldn't know any of this from media reports because they all rehashed their talking points. So I wrote a post about it, dispelling some myths:

https://blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-uncovered-the-reality-behind-the-hype/

#OpenWashing

W Social uncovered: the reality behind the hype

An article dispelling myths about W Social, the new European platform that aims to rival X: it is a fork of Bluesky that shares many similarities with Eurosky and requires government ID to sign up.

Elena Rossini
Programme die sich als Opensource verkaufen dessen backend aber ein blob ist oder im Internet läuft, auch so eine sache. #Foss #openwashing
@ampel "most of it" #OpenWashing

It didn't take very long...

Special thanks to @mactunag for giving me a heads-up about Bluesky's message on X from November 2025

Sources:
1: https://x.com/bluesky/status/1991513731541647733

2: https://bsky.app/profile/jay.bsky.team/post/3mi5pwoncqs2g

What I find particularly egregious is that Bluesky already had a custom feed builder: #Graze was an independent project that had proved to be super popular. They had raised a million dollars just last year! They even sponsored the AtmosphereConf last week. Then Bluesky PBC steamrolled over them and announced their own project - Attie - powered by AI... at AtmosphereConf (the event where Graze was listed as a major sponsor - you can't make this up).

A developer for ATProto was horrified by this, writing:

"Why would anyone fund an Atmosphere project if Bluesky, with $100 million in the bank, might ship a competing feature at any moment? Why would a founder bet their career on this ecosystem? The presentation didn't just hurt Graze. It made the entire ecosystem look unfundable."

🔗​: https://trezy.com/blog/the-marshmallow-test

I am getting A LOT of heat for pointing out shady behaviors by Bluesky PBC. Even from Fedi friends. But I think it's important to be wide-eyed and consider all this mounting evidence of problematic behavior.

#Bluesky #ATproto #openwashing #VC #cryptobros

Cool, ein Fork! Aber ... da stinkt doch was massiv. Kann mir ein Anwalt mal sagen ob die Lizenz von #onlyoffice das hergibt?

*Update*: This is a rabbit hole of wrong usage of licenses, #narcism, #russia, #openwashing. And such unnecessary waste of money. Weird story. I'll post my findings here...

Imho war Onlyoffice ja nie wirklich #opensource, nur im Marketing von Firmen die das anbieten mussten, mangels Performance. Russensoftware halt. Oder liege ich falsch?

https://www.presseportal.de/pm/160685/6245054

Wirtschaftsinitiative startet souveräne Office-Alternative Euro-Office / Souveräner Ersatz für Microsoft...

Berlin (ots) - Europäische Regierungen und Unternehmen wenden sich zunehmend von nicht-europäischen Produktivitätsplattformen ab. Eine Allianz führender europäischer...

Presseportal.de

It was great to be at #FOSSBackstage26 today, talking about #Openwashing and what we can do about it!

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