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.
Good catch @aral! #Google does like free and open source, but only if they can exploit it.
Quote: "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" –@fosdem
Arend (they) 🏳️⚧️🇸🇷🍉
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Bob Machintruc
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Good catch @aral! #Google does like free and open source, but only if they can exploit it.
Quote: "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"
–@fosdem
Really? Then Google should be open to #AGPL licences—which they notoriously hate: opensource.google/documentatio…
Worrying if Google can influence/censor #FOSDEM as a sponsor, in the same way advertisers do for journals
#FOSS #GPL
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