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● 01.17.11

●● Identi.ca Helps Determine Who Cares About Software Freedom

Posted in GNU/Linux, Novell, Red Hat, Ubuntu at 9:30 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Summary: Commonalities among those who push dubious self-copyrighted code rather than Free software without copyright assignment

I have received no response from Jono Bacon regarding the Open Respect suggestion, which has me assume inaction regarding the young man who uses a “Ubuntu” cloak while trolling Techrights in its IRC channels, promoting Mono, and bashing Identi.ca as a lot of Mono boosters do (notice that almost none of them are in Identi.ca, they only/mostly use Twitter, which is telling). As a side note, see the comments from Canonical employees who explain why they don’t use Identi.ca either, leaving much of the action to Fedora people. As the thoughtful person who wrote this blog post claims:

=> Open Respect suggestion | ↺ bashing Identi.ca

I manage a number of communities, trust me, I understand that it’s really great to make good friends on closed networks. I get it. But that doesn’t mean that we need be quite so mean spirited about people who make friends on other more FOSS friendly networks. It’s just as extreme as those who want to force everyone to use only FOSS by martyrdom.

Don’t be a stranger, Canonical. Novell too is hardly at Identi.ca and it says a lot about their attitude towards software freedom. Is it surprising at all that Canonical — unlike Fedora — helps Novell spread Mono? One reader suggested using the following picture, which is tongue-in-cheeky. █

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