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1. Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Feb-2019 19:06:34 EST Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅
   I think this is one of the not so good fosdem talks.
   
   https://ftp.fau.de/fosdem/2019/K.1.105/love_everyday.webm
   
   It's a good illustration of how entangled open source became with some of the more regressive elements of capitalism. There's no thought or care for what Google or Amazon might be doing or where they might be taking the web. You just need to make sure you're on the right career path and and focus on community without considering the context in which the software exists.
   
   It may be true that open source won, but the other question is what did it win, and for whom? With free software it's not so clear that there was any big victory and basic stuff like being able to use a phone without proprietary software is still hard.
   1. Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Feb-2019 19:22:47 EST Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅

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      Also if your career path leads you into a situation where you're personally helping to increase the fortune of the world's richest man then I think it's time to pause and reflect. Is this where the people who started open source wanted it to go? Even though it was always a business strategy that's far from clear. Did the people who started open source want the web to be centralized around AWS data centers? I don't think they did.