Notices by Adonay Felipe Nogueira (adfeno@ecodigital.social), page 141

It just occurred to me that #GitHub ran out of money and had to sell themselves to MS. While companies like #Loomio, whose code is 100% free under #AGPL, and #Wire (A/GPL), are still in business. Doesn't that prove that the infamous "#OpenSource almost everything" creed of the GH founders is a failure, and you might as well free all your code? (looking at you #GitLab)
http://tom.preston-werner.com/2011/11/22/open-source-everything.html

#TIL that while #OpenMoko Inc. might be dead, OpenMoko continues as an "open phone" project, with a volunteer community:
https://openmoko.org/

Weird that GH sold #Gitter, a mature codebase they'd kept proprietary, and which already had a significant user base, and then bought a much newer, #FreeCode chat platform like Spectrum, which is only just out of beta. What can we read between the lines here about the MS for GH going forward?

#Spectrum.chat has been acquired by MS via GH:
https://spectrum.chat/spectrum/general/spectrum-is-joining-github~1d3eb8ee-4c99-46c0-8daf-ca35a96be6ce

"Spectrum will stay open source, and we’ll continue collaborating with the open source community to serve you the best way we can."

I hope so, but given that GH keeps a bunch of their secret sauce proprietary, I'm not going to hold my breath. One less #SlackaLike to recommend ;)

As part of the EU project @FOSS4SMEs@twitter.com we've just participated in the third transnational meeting in Dublin. Long story short: Great progress on the upcoming online course on Free and Open Source Software for SMEs has been made 🎉

Thanks @WeAreTUDublin@twitter.com for hosting us! #FOSS4SMEs

I'm conflicted about @Purism announcing an app store. https://puri.sm/posts/purism-announces-pureos-store/
They've managed to properly work with upstream until now and I don't really see what that idea brings over the Gnome Software Center.

Hey all, I wanna open up this invite again. I really want to grow organizing.social. This instance is a space for community organizers and we welcome folks trying to bring that work into a proper social media space.

The #fediverse is vast and has been amazing, but #OrgSoc is way too small :P

Here's an invite link:
https://organizing.social/invite/tnBbPe2X

We wanna encourage a diversity of voices and joining this instance will mean you are a part of deciding how it operates.
#DirectDemocracy
#ComradesWelcome

Everyone working directly on Collaborate is a volunteer, but "there are just a few ... base costs that you can't pay for with volunteering, things like accounting software"
#WTF? Why are charities paying for accounting software? On what planet does it make any sort of sense for a volunteer-run charity to be cross-subsidizing the expenses and profits of proprietary #SaaSS accounting platforms?!?

I saw some news about a backlash over a capitalist brand piggy-backing on a social justice movement.

I expected to read critiques of their exploitation of the movement for profit, undermining the integrity of the cause.

Instead, I nearly gagged as I read that the massive backlash was actually just regressive people complaining about the brand's support for social justice.

Ugh