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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 17-Jan-2025 17:40:09 JST 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

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     lukaabsch 🏞🌬♥️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💋 (lukiworker@mastodon.de)'s status on Friday, 17-Jan-2025 17:43:14 JST lukaabsch 🏞🌬♥️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💋

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     @aral free of exploitation data yes.

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     Harry Percival (hjwp@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 17-Jan-2025 20:00:07 JST Harry Percival

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     @aral is any kind of corporate sponsorship of FOSDEM, or free software itself, possible without compromising the F?

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     Malkabeth (brahmabelarusian@todon.eu)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 08:07:35 JST Malkabeth

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     @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.