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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
wwahammy@treehouse.systems ("Eric Schultz") wrote:
This #FOSSY has further solidified my belief that we invest far too much time into writing software and licenses. We need to connect the four freedoms to material issues in people's lives.
People hate tech right now. Absolutely despise it. AI data centers and Flock cameras are the biggest targets but there are so many. On top of it, the economic system makes production of creative works nearly impossible. Unless we view those types of fights as core FOSS community issues, we're going to be stuck where we are.
The problem isn't (just) that you don't have the four freedoms, it's that the system guarantees oppression and misery. The lack of software freedom is a symptom of the problem, not THE problem.
EDIT: also, how is age-gating not a red alarm fire in our community?!