Google has a huge opportunity to push forward free and open source gaming with their larger long term strategy as they are abandoning #Stadia (https://blog.google/products/stadia/message-on-stadia-streaming-strategy). Instead of giving people back their money and throw the whole platform tech away, they could turn over source code and copyright.
People and ccompanies that invested in this would not be let down and it would make for a wonderful contribution to counter market dominance - and would #empower users. Go Google, do the right thing!
People and ccompanies that invested in this would not be let down and it would make for a wonderful contribution to counter market dominance - and would #empower users. Go Google, do the right thing!
A message about Stadia and our long term streaming strategy
We’ve made the difficult decision to begin winding down our Stadia streaming service.Phil Harrison (Google)
Aral Balkan
in reply to NGI Zero open source funding • • •Do better.
#ngi #nextGenerationInternet #bigTech #google #surveillanceCapitalism #pr #NLnet
NGI Zero open source funding
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •I think you must have used Etherpad at some point? What is different here? Do you still see that as a Google product? Of course, #Cryptpad is warmly recommended.
Aral Balkan
in reply to NGI Zero open source funding • • •- The potential to use free labour
- The potential for positive public relations (which, when amplified, will hopefully get people thinking about them as a benevolent philosopher kings instead of the robber barons and people farmers that they are)
- The potential to influence the stack (with tools that function in line with their success criteria)
- The potential to find new talent
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Aral Balkan
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •The sooner we stop pretending they ever had this goal and the sooner institutions that have some level of legitimacy (or at least a claim) in representing “the alternative” stop laundering their legitimacy by perpetuating these myths, the better.
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Aral Balkan
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •With Big Tobacco this came with the Surgeon General’s report unequivocally stating that smoking harms your health.
We need the equivalent in tech.
Institutions like yours shouldn’t be pleading with Google to “do the right thing” any more than an animal rights group would plead with factory farms to “please, be kind.”
The goal is to not have factory farms.
Brian
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Nemo_bis 🌈
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •NGI Zero open source funding
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Look at the matter at hand, and focus on what you want to achieve - and what could be helpful. Google is about to kill a service that failed to successfully compete with two dominant big tech players. Ignoring this opportunity exists makes no sense.
Aral Balkan
in reply to NGI Zero open source funding • • •Aral Balkan
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Do you (NLnet/ngi) see anything fundamentally wrong with Google and it’s business model or do you think they are generally a force for good in the world (but they sometimes make mistakes and could improve how they do certain things).
I’d like to know this as we are very careful about who we associate with and, especially, who we accept money from.
NGI Zero open source funding
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hamish campbell
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •#EU are kinda blinded like all people http://hamishcampbell.com/?s=Nlnet the funding is poured down the drain.
#nlnet guys at least fund "better" unless tech projects ;)
I have tried talking to um about this, my thought is the people picking the projects are a self reflecting #geekproblem so they are unlikely to fund let alone see value outside this narrowness.
It's the mess we look at from outside, likely nice bunch of people as individuals though
Arne Babenhauserheide
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Aral Balkan
in reply to Arne Babenhauserheide • • •Also, have you heard, some clueless folks seem to have a vendetta against them and are trying to regulate (basically restrict) them? How horrible. Why would anyone want to harm a company that gifted humanity the likes of etherpad?
Arne Babenhauserheide
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