Ariadne Conill 🐰Jan 31
someone has a sense of humor here
Show threadAriadne Conill 🐰Jan 31
here in the main hall, they have on royalty-free techno music. the music is being played on a mac (non-free software), in the brave browser (free-ish software). in the dock there are several icons for microsoft and other non-free software.
Show threadAriadne Conill 🐰Jan 31
i am just pointing this out because, you know, it's FOSDEM, the free and open source developers' european meeting.
Show threadAriadne Conill 🐰Jan 31
last year the computer they used for this was running KDE 🙃
Show threadAriadne Conill 🐰Jan 31
they have swapped out for another machine running KDE (free software). it is showing a slideshow authored in Google Slides (non-free software), and the browser appeared to be Firefox (free software).
Show threadAriadne Conill 🐰Jan 31
RichiH has a strong message to kick this one off, definitely saying what everyone is feeling
Show threadIlya ZverevFeb 1

@ariadne While strong, I do not consider this true. Like @eobet writes below, open source is community, and in non-democracies, communities and personal contact are most important.

On the contrary, closed source might be irrelevant in non-democracies.

Show threadAriadne Conill 🐰Feb 1
@zverik @eobet its a valid point, and indeed yesterday a friend pointed out that FOSS is growing quickly in China
Show threadMichael Dexter

@ariadne @zverik @eobet I mean… GPL-violating devices gonna violate, everywhere, and the Linux Foundation becomes indistinguishable from… say… Oracle?

Free Software contiues to completely win and lose at the same time.

It’s a multidimensional paradox and always has been. Just keep fighting the right fights.

Feb 1 at 4:36pmWeb
Show threadAriadne Conill 🐰Feb 1
@dexter @zverik @eobet personally I think GPL enforcement is kind of a waste of time in most cases because you wind up chasing shell companies on shell companies which have already been dissolved after the product release 🙃
Show threadMichael DexterFeb 1
@ariadne @zverik @eobet It’s gotta have teeth, but this is about democracy and open source.