Gregory's ServerI mean, Jack Dorsey speaking about "Infusing Open Source Culture into Company DNA" when not a single soul has ever heard of him in relation to Open Source before this talk title would have worked as a joke to me.
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  @bagder Exactly. I don't care about billionaires. I don't care how much money is in the bank account of someone who presents at FOSDEM. But at least they should have some kind of connection to the Open Source world. I'm sure he can present countless interesting things about investments and building big platforms, but that's not what FOSDEM is about.  @bagder Maybe it's as aspirational as the promise/lie that BSky is open and federated? @bagder I was wondering how there could possibly be a keynote without mentioning AI, I think that would be against the rules now for Silicon Valley visionaries Then I read the abstract, what a relief  @bagder Twitter was pretty good about open-sourcing the libraries they built back in the day! @bagder I’m not endorsing Jack Dorsey, far from it, but the title isn’t ridiculous @bagder so - just the first example coming to my mind - bootstrap is not opensource, isn’t used by thousands, and wasn’t released by twitter when he was in charge there? Not going to praise that guy too much as i don’t trust him too far and there are surely many better people to give a fosdem keynote - but saying he has nothing to do with opensource seems odd. @Dame_ @bagder don’t know his personal role exactly but at least he allowed his company engineers to publish some of their code. @bagder and reading further i personally find „The session will also introduce Block's new open source AI agentic framework.“ more of a questionable thing as it tries to make us believe a marketing buzzword is an actual technical term that developers should care about. I see marketing getting to define and redefine technical terms quite problematic   @bagder Even if his companies had been involved in open source projects, I don't think I'd care to hear from someone who's been a CEO for so long. He's so removed from the code and the on-the-ground decision-making. Likewise I don't think I'd care to hear what Matt Mullenwig has to say these days, regardless of controversy. He's too far removed. |
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Perhaps he means "how to profit from other people's work"?