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Written by Aral Balkan on 2025-01-21 at 20:12

Nah, don’t worry, it’ll be ok. They’ve been sponsored by Google for years. Even Facebook at one point.

It’s open source… it’s about the source being open. It’s open as in “open for business”.

The “F” in FOSDEM is silent.

It’ll be fine…

https://ar.al/2019/01/11/i-was-wrong-about-google-and-facebook-theres-nothing-wrong-with-them-so-say-we-all/

[#]FOSDEM #FOSDEM25 #JackDorsey #billionaires #trillionDollarCorporations #institutionalCorruption #openSource #openForBusiness #BigTech #PR #Google #Facebook https://mastodon.cloud/@mfeilner/113859797648383354

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Descendants

Written by Giuseppe Guglielmucci on 2025-01-21 at 20:23

@aral Sometimes I wonder if all the open and privacy movements and efforts are worth it. Then I remember: if everyone thinks the same there will be no alternative at all. That's why I use and support open projects daily.

EDIT: also, something is better than nothing.

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Written by Murdoc Addams 🧛🏻 on 2025-01-21 at 20:36

@aral

Wow, that was a big dose of sarcasm for first thing in my morning, could almost use a content warning, but perfectly justified. Great article! Really shows how far the tendrils have wormed their way into. Those other orgs I already knew about, but the FSF? I'm having a hard time with that one. I need to find out more. If we lose the likes of them then, I... I just don't know. 😟

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Written by craignicol on 2025-01-21 at 21:14

@aral does the F stand for fascist yet?

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Written by small circle 🕊 in calmness on 2025-01-21 at 22:07

@craignicol @aral

At least a Nazi Bar with bigtech sponsor suits strutting around there with greedy eyes and gravy around their mouth (where it usually foams).

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Written by small circle 🕊 in calmness on 2025-01-21 at 22:13

@craignicol @aral

Btw cool initiative here, if you didn't bump into it https://mastodon.social/@sylv_a/113866786740212465

I was also thinking about:

#AprilFoolsDay

• Only fools stick around

• Staying? Joke is on you!

• Whose the fool?

• Fool me once, don't fool me twice.

etcetera.. 1,000's of crowdsourced jokes with packaged call for action might be shot into the ether. No legal action, hey it is just satire, right? 🤷

@martijn mentioned #LabourDay as another good date. Labor for transition and onboarding at #fedi.

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Written by craignicol on 2025-01-21 at 22:28

@smallcircles @aral @martijn play up the French for April Fools as well. It's fish day in French, so plenty of "don't get caught" "don't take the bait" or "hook, line and sinker" options

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Written by small circle 🕊 in calmness on 2025-01-22 at 04:23

@craignicol @aral @martijn

That is a very good addition to the theme. 👍

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Written by m0xEE on 2025-01-21 at 21:14

@aral

Well, if Aral has no problem using a laptop made by Apple running an OS made by Apple and building his web development kit on top of Node.js, for which V8 — a project headed by Google, is a hard dependency*, then there is indeed nothing wrong with them 😏

• — there were attempts to port it to other JS engines, but none stuck, all of them are abandoned, therefore Node is built on Google technology

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Written by Aral Balkan on 2025-01-22 at 10:40

@m0xee Yeah, man, exactly the fucking same thing. Thanks, I know we live in a sewer and I’m doing the best I can by USING what’s there. How the fuck is that the same as TAKING MONEY FROM them?

But yeah, sure, what the fuck ever.

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Written by Petre on 2025-01-22 at 17:29

@aral @m0xee wait, who's taking money?

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Written by SpaceLifeForm on 2025-01-21 at 23:06

@aral

It is all about the money.

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Written by Christophe B. :android: on 2025-01-23 at 21:00

@aral FOSDEM was called OSDEM during its first year until Stallman requested the "F"

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Written by Aral Balkan on 2025-01-23 at 21:39

@bladecoder That makes a lot of sense. Would’ve been better to leave the F off rather than it lose its meaning, or worse, be used as public relations.

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