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1. Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 24-Mar-2019 22:23:48 UTC Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅
   Watching some of the LibrePlanet video stream and thinking how Free Software has changed over the years. A decade or more ago it was more about copyright battles, license terms, DRM and the long and sometimes dirty fight with Microsoft and patent trolls. The problems now are more about post-Microsoft tech monopolies abusing their powers and the difficult problem of connecting up with other groups who are also suffering from the effects of a malignant tech-augmented capitalism.
   
   In some regards the battles of past decades were a sideshow and now is the time that Free Software is really coming to the forefront as one of the few things which can prevent the few remaining liberties from being extinguished.
   • Adonay Felipe Nogueira repeated this.
   • Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 24-Mar-2019 22:37:06 UTC Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅

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     Today's Free Software landscape is less about lawyering and slugging it out in the courts and more about connecting with other commons-related movements.
     Adonay Felipe Nogueira repeated this.