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If you don’t give a shit that FOSDEM is sponsored by Google and is being keynoted by a billionaire Silicon Valley people farmer, you don’t give a shit about the “F” in the name. Which is fine, because neither do they and neither does much of the “open source” world. Open source, after all, is “open” as in “open for business” not “free” as in “freedom.”
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@aral free of exploitation data yes. This is what freedom means concrete here in this case.
It [Freedom] is an abstract word that can be used not properly.
@aral Maybe https://offdem.net/ is more interesting then?
@aral is any kind of corporate sponsorship of FOSDEM, or free software itself, possible without compromising the F?
@hjwp Not every business is Big Tech or a trillion-dollar corporation. And not every entity with money is a for-profit business either. So, yes, I don’t see why you couldn’t have sponsorship from ethically-aligned organisations.
Think of it this way: there’s a reason Greenpeace isn’t sponsored by Shell or ExxonMobil and it’s not because they couldn’t use the money.
(And were Greenpeace sponsored by Shell or ExxonMobil, you’d likely have a question a two.)
@aral oh lovely, so the biggest company in it's affordability at invading the privacy of people & within this making #DisabilityAccessibilty in tech get dragged backwards by decades is now pushing itself into the #OpenSource sphere.
@aral just found out that jack talk got cancelled following a protest campaign. so that's something. https://drewdevault.com/2025/01/23/2025-01-23-Transparency-and-governance-FOSDEM.html