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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Dec-2022 08:26:43 JST Aral Balkan

   I feel it’s important for the future of our species that we understand the difference between “open” (as in “open for business”) and “free” (as in “freedom”).

   This isn’t some inconsequential bike-shedding over terminology. It is the difference between living under a corporatocracy and living in a world with individual sovereignty and a healthy commons.

   #open #free #foss #freedom #openSource #freeSoftware

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     Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Dec-2022 08:56:31 JST Alexandre Oliva

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     • A fly against the machine
     you seem to be responding to a twisted notion of free software. our movement defends the notion that you should be entitled to control your computing, that subjugating you through the software you use is wrong. the more digital your life is, the more aspects of your individual and collective freedom depend on not being subjugated through software. like security, the weakest link is the one that breaks, so in order to have freedom, you need all the foundations of freedom to be strong.
     "open" is a corrupted, toned-down misrepresentation of that to pave the way for exploitation rather than liberation and autonomy. don't fall for their propaganda.
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     A fly against the machine (vegafjord@freeradical.zone)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Dec-2022 08:56:33 JST A fly against the machine

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     @aral Yes, its a good foundation, except that it is branded as free software. Freedom can not be reduced to a binary state. Freedom is subjective and should be explored from many angles. A feminist lense, an engineers lens, an activist, an organizer and so on. Therefore, I like to use the more descriptive term open to describe these tools.

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     A fly against the machine (vegafjord@freeradical.zone)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Dec-2022 08:56:35 JST A fly against the machine

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     @aral I dont concider free software to be actually free. For software to be free, the people need control over the software to a certain extent.

     Today free software tools gives open access to a lot of great tools, but tools that are developed to help the upper class suppress everybody else.

     We need to take back control over development through connecting developers to the grass roots and let the grass roots finance the development.

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Dec-2022 08:56:35 JST Aral Balkan

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     • A fly against the machine

     @vegafjord There are lots of ways in which the free software movement of – what is it now, 40 years ago? – doesn’t meet our needs today. I mean, heck, some of our earliest critics were from that world because we didn’t toe the line or criticised some piece of dogma or other. But there’s a world of difference between “open” and “free” and the latter (however imperfect it may be) if the foundation we should be building on.