El 2022-02-23 23:17, [email protected] escribió: > And by the way... if the problem is gatekeeping, then corporate monopolies > (the sort that invariably favour Open over Free, in rhetoric, press and > funding) are the largest-scale gatekeepers the world has ever known. > > Have a conference by all means, to put a dent in the problems these > monopolies created in the first place. But question why they want to fund > and help represent you. It might not be on the level. > > I pick on the FSF for this as well. They've gutted a lot of corporate > funding, but I noticed IBM taking them to task over this. You talk about > Hacker spaces fighting racist technology-- who do you think CREATED that > technology? > > IBM (and their ilk) lecturing the FSF on gatekeeping is like a shark > lecturing a guppy on table manners. > > It's not merely hypocrisy, it is a surreal and extremely slanted rehash of > reality itself. I can't say I'll ever support that sort of > upside-downness. But others may. And if we put it to a vote, you can count > on those who consume mass media to side with the owners of the media. > That's Open Source again. At least there are people who stand against this > sort of thing-- not as a marketing gimmick, you know-- but because they > really mean it.
So, in the end, what is important is transparency. Not diplomacy. If that is what you mean, I agree wholeheartedly. _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://lists.fsfellowship.eu/mailman/listinfo/discussion
