Ecologia Digital#Freesoftware: "We are trying to give more people the opportunity to “become #hackers”. So they can profit off of all this stuff built by hackers for hackers. This isn’t a project to free all of us, it’s a project to give everyone a degree of freedom if they join our club. If they assimilate.
We are not meeting people where they are. We expect them to come to us in order to understand why our values matter and are the best. Which—sorry to have to say so—they are not."
https://tante.cc/2025/03/03/who-is-free-software-for/
We are not meeting people where they are. We expect them to come to us in order to understand why our values matter and are the best. Which—sorry to have to say so—they are not."
https://tante.cc/2025/03/03/who-is-free-software-for/
Who is Free Software for?
For a while I have been arguing that maybe there are some issues with the whole “Open*” movements, their founding myths and ideologies (see for example my talk at Fluconf). This criticism comes from a place of love. All the writing on this blog is licensed CC-BY-SA to allow others to take the texts and […]
Roberto