Hi Bernhard,
Am 28.06.2019 14:55 schrieb Bernhard E. Reiter:
(Facebook, just like the companies IBM, Microsoft and Google contribute quite significant amount code as Free Software and interact with the communities. Applaudable even if they do bad things in other areas.)
nope, they didn't. They are contributing a significant amount of code to Open Source Software and take a significant amount of Open Source Software to lock their users to their proprietary cloud services. The idea of 'free as in free speech' becomes 'free as in free beer' for these companies and that's the opposite of Free Software.
It's really important to remind us of the moral dimension of software freedom and to link this to human freedom: Free Software is primarily for people and not to create freedom for companies. We've got to keep the social dimension of Free Software in perspective. Like free speech, Free Software should be a fundamental right and we should fight the proprietary vendor lock-in of cloud providers.
Best Christian Imhorst
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