Free Software Foundation EuropeJul 22, 2023

Public Money, Public Code! Code paid by the people should be available to the people!
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Public Money, Public Code

Public Money, Public Code - A campaign for releasing publicly financed software as Free Software

Show threadeternaltyroJul 22, 2023

@fsfe @johas "we need software that guarantees freedom of choice, access, and competition."

I think you misspelt cooperation!

Show threadJohannes NäderJul 22, 2023
@eternaltyro @fsfe I'd say Free Software is key to competition and cooperation.
Show threadeternaltyroJul 22, 2023
@johas @fsfe but competition is.... bad??
Show threadMatija Nalis
@eternaltyro @johas @fsfe Competition would be only be bad if everyone wanted and liked exactly the same things, as then it would be needless duplication of effort to create same thing multiple times. But, should everyone use only GNOME? Some people might prefer KDE, or icewm. Should everyone use only Emacs for text editing? Some people might prefer vi, or nano, or joe. That is all competition... Competition does not mean "war", but catering to different segments of some market...
Jul 22, 2023 at 2:14pmWeb
Show threadeternaltyroJul 22, 2023
@mnalis @johas @fsfe I see your point. But that's not competition. You're conflating diversity of options with competition. For example, KDE and GNOME aren't competing for anything.
Show threadMatija NalisJul 23, 2023
@eternaltyro @johas @fsfe Aren't they? IMHO, they're at least competing for Desktop Environment users (afterall you can't run both KDE and GNOME simultaneously, and if use one on one system you're likely to use it on others systems and recommend it too), AND for developers (if you invest time to improve GNOME, you're not likely to also do it for KDE, and even if you do, hours spent doing one are not available for the other). But perhaps we don't use same definition of competition?
Show threadeternaltyroJul 23, 2023
@mnalis @johas @fsfe perhaps.
Show threadJonathan Hartley's old accountJul 25, 2023
@eternaltyro @mnalis @johas @fsfe This is a textbook definition of competition, the only wrinkle being it isn't for financial purchase cost. They compete for end users, for developers & other contributions such as designers and documentors, for application developer mind share (eg. To test specifically with one or the other, or provide specialized affordances with one or the other in mind?), for selection as the default installation by different distributions, etc