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   David Larlet (david@fedi.larlet.fr)'s status on Friday, 17-Jan-2025 00:10:39 JST David Larlet

   > Jack Dorsey, former CEO of Twitter, ousted board member of BlueSky, and grifter extraordinaire to the tune of a $5.6B net worth, is giving a keynote at FOSDEM. — https://drewdevault.com/2025/01/16/2025-01-16-No-Billionares-at-FOSDEM-please.html

   Wait, WAT?!

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     Børge (forteller@tutoteket.no)'s status on Friday, 17-Jan-2025 22:59:28 JST Børge

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     @david Yeah, ok, but nothing there about the actual reason, and how they justify it. Crazy!

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     David Larlet (david@fedi.larlet.fr)'s status on Friday, 17-Jan-2025 22:59:29 JST David Larlet

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     Official answer:

     > To be clear, in our 25 year history, we have always had the hard rule that sponsorship does not give you preferential treatment for talk selection; this policy has always applied, it applied in this particular case, and it will continue to apply in the future. Any claims that any talk was allowed for sponsorship reasons are false. — https://fosdem.org/2025/news/2025-01-16-protests/