Post 2394894 by Wolf480pl@niu.moe
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(DIR) Post #2381186 by forteller@octodon.social
2018-12-28T22:39:48Z
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Free and Open Source Software is not winning. That is terrible for all of humanity, as more and more of our freedom of thought, speech, movement, and our security is integrated with computers and the web.Why are we losing? Because there is so much money on the other side and so little on our.The sollution? We need to band togheter, in organizations fighting the cause. That means: We need to donate to @conservancy @fsfe, etc!Please read and upvote: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/aa8ws9/a_message_from_karen_sadler_to_supporters_of_the/ecrg474/ #freesoftware
(DIR) Post #2382282 by Shamar@mastodon.social
2018-12-28T23:37:06Z
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@forteller @conservancy @fsfe #OpenSource is winning hands down.Just #FreeSoftware is loosing.Because open source is strongly tied to the commercial interests of the corporations that fund it, like #Google, #Facebook, #Microsoft and so on.If you want to support #freedom of thought, speech, movement and our #security, you should bet on Free Software #hackers.We don't need #money but more hackers.So study.Learn (and teach) to be curious and to #hack.
(DIR) Post #2382283 by bob@soc.freedombone.net
2018-12-28T23:44:37.638715Z
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@Shamar @fsfe @conservancy @forteller It's difficult to say who is winning or losing. It depends what the success criteria is. There is more usable Free Software than ever. The majority of new web based systems are Free Software. I am writing this post on a desktop running Free Software via a server running Free Software. That's a success of sorts.But there are also plenty of problems. Money is always one. Publicity is always another. There are lingering issues like software patents, lack of free wifi drivers, people using Slack or Telegram to run their projects, the increasingly clear need for free hardware designs, and many other things.
(DIR) Post #2383500 by Shamar@mastodon.social
2018-12-29T00:06:48Z
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@bob @fsfe @conservancy @forteller And none of these problems can be fixed by competing on resources with #Google #Facebook #Microsoft #Amazon and so on.We can't compete for #money so we need to compete for #minds. We need more and more hackers. And if people have money to share and want to support #freedom, the best thing they can do is to invest them to become hackers, and help us with our works.We need hackers, not money.
(DIR) Post #2391494 by njoseph@social.masto.host
2018-12-29T06:49:48Z
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@Shamar @bob @fsfe @conservancy @forteller We need not just hackers, but content writers, artists and designers, marketers and most importantly more users. Users who are willing to put up with free software products and give them the space to grow to their full potential. Some of these users might even start filling the above roles. Having enough users might end up solving the funding problem too.
(DIR) Post #2392277 by noorul@noorul.us.to
2018-12-29T07:20:49Z
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I strongly feel that #FOSS community made of technical, developers, programmers etc.There seems large gap for designer and huge gap for marketers, promoters.Here is simple work flow,If we get ✅ designers make UI looks attractive, simply✅ content producer, writing, video, image, to make usage understandable✅ marketer/promoterspromote and disturb various channelsUserbase will flow automat@njoseph @bob @conservancy
(DIR) Post #2394894 by Wolf480pl@niu.moe
2018-12-29T09:29:32Z
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@njoseph @Shamar @bob @fsfe @conservancy @forteller >we need usersPlease don't fall into the trap of taking user count as a success metric. If you do that, your software will become as bad as proprietary software, modulo license.