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Summary: The Free Software movement in the wild

●● DRM

  Trend: Netflix will be the next President of the United States 

Because screw customers, that's why

Mitigating: at least people are complaining

●● Apathy

  Trend: suspense 

Mitigating: coup exposed

●● Privacy

  Trend: dangerous 

Even Google claims to be worried

Mitigating: various bans on face-recognition

●● Organisational Co-opting

  Trend: foreboding 

Bruce even resigned again, partying like it's 1999 Now ESR is cancelled

=> ↺ partying like it's 1999

Mitigating: the coup is acting desperate

●● GNU/Linux Co-opting

  Trend: foreboding 

GNU structure being established

●● Other Free Software Co-opting

  Trend: dangerous 

Github, GSoC, EME, Flatpak, Python

Mitigating: not everyone is naive enough to fall for the official narrative

●● GPL / Copyleft

  Trend: slight increase in awareness 

Right idea, wrong reasons

Mitigating: ?

●● Cloud

  Trend: steady increase 

It doesn't exist, but GAFAM is all over it

Mitigating: a trend towards poverty?

●● Code of Conduct

  Trend: minor improvements in awareness, escalation in tactics from censors and liars 

People know that others are being censored over nonsense

Mitigating: not a lot

●● Bigotry, hate, discrimination

  Trend: anybody's guess 

Who would you trust to monitor the status of this?

Mitigating: see Trend

●● Away From Keyboard

 Free Media Alliance (disbanded) 

=> ↺ Free Media Alliance

Free Software Foundation India (not very active)

=> ↺ Free Software Foundation India

 Related pages: 

=> Free Software Foundation

=> Free Software timeline

=> Librethreat Database

=> Techrights

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