"Open Source" is a term created by businesspeople wanting to exploit developers' unpaid labor. They couldn't care less about freedom, so they don't see anything wrong in using PowerPoint.
@abacabadabacaba I'll just point out that LibreOffice is free software, and it does output "PowerPoint format", which is Open Office XML since quite a long time.
A couple of years ago, I gave a talk at State Of Open Conference. To register as a speaker, they required you to have accounts on no fewer than four proprietary platforms. They used Google maps for their maps ;in spite of the fact that OpenStreetMap actually had the entrance to the venue on their maps and Google didn’t). They used some additional proprietary platform for speakers to communicate.
I took away the message that the state of open is ‘not great’.
Every single one of the proprietary systems that they used had an open source / open data alternative and, in most cases, the open version was better.
Björn Fahller
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in reply to daniel:// stenberg:// • • •That's why people should support Free Software and not Open Source.
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"Open Source" is a term created by businesspeople wanting to exploit developers' unpaid labor. They couldn't care less about freedom, so they don't see anything wrong in using PowerPoint.
Why Open Source Misses the Point of Free Software - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation
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Lars Marowsky-Brée 😷
in reply to daniel:// stenberg:// • • •To my immense dismay, a lot of the Open Source "business" world runs on Google, MS et al from their Macbooks while preaching "digital sovereignty".
The naysayers really don't need to do anything else to undermine the trust in the offering than ask their sales person "sooo what do you use".
It's like rocking up to sell an electric car in a Diesel SUV by a different brand.
David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)
in reply to daniel:// stenberg:// • • •A couple of years ago, I gave a talk at State Of Open Conference. To register as a speaker, they required you to have accounts on no fewer than four proprietary platforms. They used Google maps for their maps ;in spite of the fact that OpenStreetMap actually had the entrance to the venue on their maps and Google didn’t). They used some additional proprietary platform for speakers to communicate.
I took away the message that the state of open is ‘not great’.
Every single one of the proprietary systems that they used had an open source / open data alternative and, in most cases, the open version was better.
#OpenUK #StateOfOpen
Andre C.
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