#RFC: Unionize Free Software.
Today #FOSS can be exploited by #BigTech. We need to united free software development and collectively provide a counter to big and exploitative tech, that takes free software as gratis labor and undermines it as soon as free software developers demand anything in return - even if it's just to release your own source code depending on #FOSS as #FOSS.
Thus I present to you: "Unionize Free Software".
https://discuss.coding.social/t/unionize-free-software/59
#SocialCoding
Today #FOSS can be exploited by #BigTech. We need to united free software development and collectively provide a counter to big and exploitative tech, that takes free software as gratis labor and undermines it as soon as free software developers demand anything in return - even if it's just to release your own source code depending on #FOSS as #FOSS.
Thus I present to you: "Unionize Free Software".
https://discuss.coding.social/t/unionize-free-software/59
#SocialCoding
Unionize Free Software
In the article “The changing economics of open source” Ken Mugrage present the Free Software Sustainability problem from the perspective of companies depending on free software developed by hobbyists.Discuss Social Coding
Adrian Cochrane
in reply to CSDUMMI✝️🕊️🏛️ • • •Centralized services, JavaScript frameworks, big data analysis, etc are always the first things to be exploited. So try going more decentralized... Try making a GTK or Qt app...
This approach can go far, but sure. Not all the way.
Tim Makarios
in reply to Adrian Cochrane • • •@csddumi
CSDUMMI✝️🕊️🏛️
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CSDUMMI✝️🕊️🏛️
in reply to CSDUMMI✝️🕊️🏛️ • • •Adrian Cochrane
in reply to CSDUMMI✝️🕊️🏛️ • • •Centralized services require, even more than anything else, require additional governance to deliver the benefits of free software. Not to mention p2p tech is advancing...
JavaScript (or rather the DOM) I don't view as sustainable, once Google for whatever reason looses interest the ecosystem will crumble.
And the only valid use for big data I see is science...
CSDUMMI✝️🕊️🏛️
in reply to Adrian Cochrane • • •But I do not think we should build these considerations into the system for sustaining free software.
Sustaining Free Software should not change free software's subjects - the freedoms of the developers.