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1. Hisham (hisham_hm@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 29-Aug-2019 15:25:03 UTC Hisham

   For those of you under 30: are you aware of the free software (as in GNU) vs. open source (as in OSI) debate?

   Please RT for visibility, I think my immediate circle is mostly older people 😆

   • Colegota El Villano and Adonay Felipe Nogueira repeated this.
   • Adonay Felipe Nogueira (adfeno@ecodigital.social)'s status on Friday, 30-Aug-2019 10:46:47 UTC Adonay Felipe Nogueira

     • Free Software Foundation
     • marius

     @hisham_hm @mariusor I do know that you used "won" between quotes, but as far as I — a 24-years-old that has some technological preferences of pre-1994 people — can say, being one of the volunteer contributors for many #SoftwareFreedom projects — e.g.: @fsf and #UNESCO's #FreeSoftwareDirectory ( https://directory.fsf.org/ ), #Trisquel, #Replicant, #GNU #Guix, #LibreJS, #FreeJS replacement, besides being a speaker/presenter — think this is far from lost.

   • Adonay Felipe Nogueira (adfeno@ecodigital.social)'s status on Friday, 30-Aug-2019 10:56:26 UTC Adonay Felipe Nogueira

     • Free Software Foundation
     • marius

     @hisham_hm @mariusor I'm also an issue reporter on occasional #GNU #FSDG issues found in some of the few system distributions approved by @fsf as being free/libre (because those have a stricter guideline than simple freedom of the software, thus also requiring commitments from the community around the distribution), besides being a freedom of the software reviewer for the #FreeSoftwareDirectory. The FSF lists approved system distributions.

   • Adonay Felipe Nogueira (adfeno@ecodigital.social)'s status on Sunday, 01-Sep-2019 02:46:40 UTC Adonay Felipe Nogueira

     • Christine Lemmer-Webber
     • Art :fediverse:

     @rosnovsky @hisham_hm @cwebber To be fair, #GNU isn't a synonym for "free/libre software". It is free/libre software, but there is no requirement for a software to be under the umbrella of GNU in order to be free/libre. GNU was the first to *document* the movement.

   • Adonay Felipe Nogueira (adfeno@ecodigital.social)'s status on Sunday, 01-Sep-2019 03:05:56 UTC Adonay Felipe Nogueira

     • amanda, bakery malcontent

     @alpine_thistle @hisham_hm "free/libre software" is a movement that, in capability-based theory of political philosophy, gives the user control over his own material environment, also taking care to give these freedoms and *preserve and spread* then legally. According to https://media.libreplanet.org/u/libreplanet/m/stallman-nussbaum-and-sen-putting-freedom-in-context/ , https://media.libreplanet.org/u/libreplanet/m/free-software-free-society/ and https://journals.openedition.org/rccs/pdf/5462 . Thus strong and "or-later" #copyleft license with community enforcement is advocated ( #AGPL first then #GPL second).

   • Adonay Felipe Nogueira (adfeno@ecodigital.social)'s status on Sunday, 01-Sep-2019 03:25:40 UTC Adonay Felipe Nogueira

     • amanda, bakery malcontent

     @alpine_thistle @hisham_hm On the other side there is a mix of #OpenSourceInitiative / #OSI and its followers, but also some which incorrectly label things as "open". #OSI supports #DigitalHandcuffs such as #DigitalRestrictionsManagement / #DRM and #RestrictedBoot ( e.g. some #Android and modern computers have it), FSF doesn't. #OpenSource is a development method favoring lax / non-copyleft licenses and so sacrificing freedom of the software. FSF accepts #SecureBoot.