Post B0ugzak9HBiI2TTow4 by turbobob@mamot.fr
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 (DIR) Post #B0udHJ3dN1YuaEmm1Y by aral@mastodon.ar.al
       2025-12-04T17:55:33Z
       
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       You’re not an ally if your freedom/privacy/human rights/democracy event is sponsored by surveillance capitalists like Google that are complicit in Israel’s genocide and pose an existential threat to human rights and democracy.#FOSDEM #etc
       
 (DIR) Post #B0ufMpumppMfqRPbiS by arendleejessurun@musicians.today
       2025-12-04T18:19:36Z
       
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       @aral Lol privacy event sponsored by Google.
       
 (DIR) Post #B0ugor3GInHDQtIgGO by turbobob@mamot.fr
       2025-12-04T18:35:52Z
       
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       Good catch @aral!Google does like free and open source, but mostly because they benefit from it."Google believes that open source is good for everyone. By being open and freely available, it enables and encourages collaboration and the development of technology".–@fosdemReally? Then Google should be open to #AGPL licences—which they notoriously hate: https://opensource.google/documentation/reference/using/agpl-policyWorrying if Google can influence/censor as a sponsor, in the same way advertisers do...#FOSS #GPL #FOSDEM #Google
       
 (DIR) Post #B0ugzak9HBiI2TTow4 by turbobob@mamot.fr
       2025-12-04T18:36:48Z
       
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       Good catch @aral! Google does like free and open source, but simply because they can exploit it."Google believes that open source is good for everyone. By being open and freely available, it enables and encourages collaboration and the development of technology".–@fosdemReally? Then Google should be open to #AGPL licences—which they notoriously hate: https://opensource.google/documentation/reference/using/agpl-policyWorrying if Google can influence/censor as a sponsor, in the same way advertisers do...#FOSS #GPL #FOSDEM #Google
       
 (DIR) Post #B10kCFbadyNL3WxqRU by timezoneless@mstdn.social
       2025-12-07T16:42:06Z
       
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       @aral do you state this under the assumption that FOSDEM decides on some sort of agenda? Even considering they select talks to some extent, the vast number of talks doesn't make very strict steering likely. So, in what respects is it an actual problem?