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   Alexandre Oliva (lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br)'s status on Saturday, 03-May-2025 10:51:18 JST Alexandre Oliva

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   • Dave Lane :flag_tino: 🇳🇿
   hey, that brought me back very fond memories from my very first free software advocacy paper and speech, inspired by a line from an interview by Samba's Jeremy Allison that made this very point
   
   https://www.lx.oliva.nom.br/papers/free-software/selection.pdf
   
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     Dave Lane :flag_tino: 🇳🇿 (lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Saturday, 03-May-2025 10:51:20 JST Dave Lane :flag_tino: 🇳🇿

     Huh - what do you know? https://redis.io/blog/agplv3/ - turns out that when a software category is dominated by a #libre option (e.g. mobile operating systems, database & blog engines, and now value stores/caching systems), nothing proprietary can compete. And the rest of the world benefits from it. Imagine that.

     Abhiseck Paira :gnu: repeated this.
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     Dave Lane :flag_tino: 🇳🇿 (lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Saturday, 03-May-2025 11:15:54 JST Dave Lane :flag_tino: 🇳🇿

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     @lxo ooo, nice quote - yes, I remember seeing Allison talking about this stuff around that time - he's the real deal.

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     Alexandre Oliva (lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br)'s status on Saturday, 03-May-2025 11:31:55 JST Alexandre Oliva

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     • Dave Lane :flag_tino: 🇳🇿
     oh, and thank you, I'd have entirely missed the upcoming 25th anniversary of my début, with its first presentation, if it weren't for your reminder!
     
     that FISL was on May 4th-5th, 2000. it was the very first one, too. it grew to become an amazing conference over the next two decades. I miss it a lot, it was the yearly meeting point for the brazilian free software communities.