Aral Balkan
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.”
#FOSDEM #OpenSource #trillionDollarCorporations #billionaires #Google #JackDorsey #institutionalCorruption #BigTech #SiliconValley #PR
Panthone :ancomheart: ㅤ★ㅤ♡♦
@aral free of exploitation data yes.
Harry Percival
@aral is any kind of corporate sponsorship of FOSDEM, or free software itself, possible without compromising the F?
highly principled invertebrate
@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 Balkan
@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 Balkan
@debacle You should tell Greenpeace that. The idiots have been turning down money from ExxonMobil and Shell for years now. What fools, amirite?
Debacle
I still see a difference between being sponsored by $EVILCOMPANY and plattforming $EVILBILLIONAIRE.
The former can be problematic, but I accept it as more or less necessary. The latter is a horrible mistake.
Aral Balkan
@debacle Sure.
I mean, if Greenpeace allow ExxonMobil and Shell to sponsor them, they can’t really be that bad, can they.
These, environmentalists (extremists, really) must be off their rockers. There’s no way Greenpeace would allow themselves to be sponsored by ExxonMobil and Shell if those companies were bad for the environment.
No, clearly, these are environmentally friendly companies.
Dril, baby, drill!
Debacle
As I said: "Can be problematic."
Greenpeace is probably right, not sure.
Maybe I would take the money and try to turn it against the donators, but would this work?
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