Gregory's Server"Forget about the mass surveillance programme guys, they donated to open source!"
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 Any company that carries out mass surveillance is not to be trusted. You can't compartmentalise that kind of behaviour away.  That's the very definition of too big to fail, sure they spy on you but have you not benefit from them even a bit?  @ThePlant @feditips @osc What kind of hostile question is that? Here, I can do that too: Because you use GitHub, you deserve everything Microsoft throws at you. See? That doesn’t help. Here’s the facts: Non-profits trusting for-profits has historically not worked out well for non-profits because they have fundamentally different goals. To accept money from them is trusting them in some capacity, and that money absolutely influences decisions.  @osc @feditips @ThePlant absolutely not an extremist position to hold prejudice against companies that spy on, leak information of and break users' trust. Additionally, these open source projects are beneficial to these profit-driven companies. From open-washing, to attempts at patenting (remember when Facebook tried to patent React?), to other decisions that come from a conflict of interest (Chrome being used as a vehicle for Google to control the web like nerfing adblockers, FLoC, and more..) @osc In 2017 Meta (Facebook then) did not lift a finger to prevent the ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar that was being incited on their web site. This is pretty well documented by the UN and Amnesty International. Not wanting any relation with the product of that organization is not extremist. The extremist position is to say everything is fine when we have so much evidence to the contrary. @feditips @ThePlant  @feditips https://www.theregister.com/2012/04/03/microsoft_linux_kernel_contributions/ @erin @feditips @thomholwerda @osc @ThePlant I remember when Microsoft lost the court battle for Internet Explorer and being a monopoly. It’s not hard to imagine that they do this because it’s good footing for them to not look like a monopoly. “See? We help the open source movement stay just competitive enough!” At least that comes with no strings attached thanks to the license. I think that’s the critical part. @thomholwerda@social.tchncs.de @feditips@mstdn.social @osc@econtwitter.net @ThePlant@mastodon.social i use fedora but im migrating to arch linux soon  @thomholwerda “well you’re already being watched, why do you care if even more people watch you, and farm even more data about you” :upsidedown: |
@feditips @ThePlant @Mastodon What about answering to the things I actually said, instead of answering to strawmen?