@mgifford

We were not tagged, but we use Zulip's #LibreSaas offering (paid hosting that supports fully open source free software development) every day as our internal chat.

So much better than Slack or any Slack clone.

This same sort of extreme impingement on your control over something that you rely on, that you think of as yours, is why some in the Free Software movement are dead set against Software as a Service— how do you remove a kill-switch from the cloud?

Cooperative ownership / democratic control, data backups, and open source free/libre software for the whole stack - #LibreSaaS - are our answer to that.

mamot.fr/@pluralistic/10833531…

Cory Doctorow's linkblog (@pluralistic@mamot.fr)

The kill-switches in Deere tractors weren't designed to thwart Russian looters - they were designed to thwart *American farmers.

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