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Nah, don’t worry, it’ll be ok. They’ve been sponsored by Google for years. Even Facebook at one point.
It’s open source… it’s about the source being open. It’s open as in “open for business”.
The “F” in FOSDEM is silent.
It’ll be fine…
#FOSDEM #FOSDEM25 #JackDorsey #billionaires #trillionDollarCorporations #institutionalCorruption #openSource #openForBusiness #BigTech #PR #Google #Facebook https://mastodon.cloud/@mfeilner/113859797648383354
@aral
Wow, that was a big dose of sarcasm for first thing in my morning, could almost use a content warning, but perfectly justified. Great article! Really shows how far the tendrils have wormed their way into. Those other orgs I already knew about, but the FSF? I'm having a hard time with that one. I need to find out more. If we lose the likes of them then, I... I just don't know. 
@aral
Well, if Aral has no problem using a laptop made by Apple running an OS made by Apple and building his web development kit on top of Node.js, for which V8 — a project headed by Google, is a hard dependency*, then there is indeed nothing wrong with them 
* — there were attempts to port it to other JS engines, but none stuck, all of them are abandoned, therefore Node is built on Google technology
@yayacout
Not sure, could be. I was referring to Kitten, which depends on Node.js and Node in turn — on V8.
There were attempts to port it to SpiderMonkey: https://github.com/mozilla/spidernode
And ChakraCore (old Edge's JS engine): https://github.com/nodejs/node-chakracore
None came to fruition, so today the whole Node.js ecosystem is reliant on Google: if Google drops support for some platform or architecture, Node.js does it too — this is what has happened to Big Endian PowerPC.
@aral
Man, I'm not trying to pick a fight with you, I was just following the sarcastic tone of your own article. You're free to use whatever you want, but you've ridiculed FSF for having their logo next to Google, not for *taking money*. And if we go full purism, you have a few sins of your own — that's it, come prepared!
@aral
Did he just… block me? 
This is priceless coming from the one being outraged about his question being cut from the video — top-notch activism!
If we even call this "All or nothing! You aren't being radical enough!" approach activism. Did that "The Dems aren't any better than the GOP" thing go well? If you are allowing yourself the option to compromise — then everyone does!
God damn it, cannot believe this shit!
@aral
If that's the best *you* could do and only went only this far with your tech stack, what should the average person do — seeing you lumping smaller organisations together with true evil? "If the alternatives aren't much better then maybe Google isn't that bad?" — that would be their line of thinking, what good does this accomplish?
And yes, for stepping away from "big tech" Node is the worst pick — you aren't ceasing the means of production, Google remains at the helm!
@m0xee Yeah, man, exactly the fucking same thing. Thanks, I know we live in a sewer and I’m doing the best I can by USING what’s there. How the fuck is that the same as TAKING MONEY FROM them?
But yeah, sure, what the fuck ever.
@aral does the F stand for fascist yet?
in calmness At least a Nazi Bar with bigtech sponsor suits strutting around there with greedy eyes and gravy around their mouth (where it usually foams).
Btw cool initiative here, if you didn't bump into it https://mastodon.social/@sylv_a/113866786740212465
I was also thinking about:
- Only fools stick around
- Staying? Joke is on you!
- Whose the fool?
- Fool me once, don't fool me twice.
etcetera.. 1,000's of crowdsourced jokes with packaged call for action might be shot into the ether. No legal action, hey it is just satire, right? 
@martijn mentioned #LabourDay as another good date. Labor for transition and onboarding at #fedi.
@smallcircles @aral @martijn play up the French for April Fools as well. It's fish day in French, so plenty of "don't get caught" "don't take the bait" or "hook, line and sinker" options
That is a very good addition to the theme. 
It is all about the money.
@aral FOSDEM was called OSDEM during its first year until Stallman requested the "F"
@bladecoder That makes a lot of sense. Would’ve been better to leave the F off rather than it lose its meaning, or worse, be used as public relations.