If you don’t give a shit that FOSDEM is sponsored by Google and is being keynoted by a billionaire Silicon Valley people farmer, you don’t give a shit about the “F” in the name. Which is fine, because neither do they and neither does much of the “open source” world. Open source, after all, is “open” as in “open for business” not “free” as in “freedom.”
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Harry Percival
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Aral Balkan
in reply to Harry Percival • • •Not every business is Big Tech or a trillion-dollar corporation. And not every entity with money is a for-profit business either. So, yes, I don’t see why you couldn’t have sponsorship from ethically-aligned organisations.
Think of it this way: there’s a reason Greenpeace isn’t sponsored by Shell or ExxonMobil and it’s not because they couldn’t use the money.
(And were Greenpeace sponsored by Shell or ExxonMobil, you’d likely have a question a two.)
highly principled invertebrate
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Aral Balkan
Unknown parent • • •Aral Balkan
Unknown parent • • •@debacle Sure.
I mean, if Greenpeace allow ExxonMobil and Shell to sponsor them, they can’t really be that bad, can they.
These, environmentalists (extremists, really) must be off their rockers. There’s no way Greenpeace would allow themselves to be sponsored by ExxonMobil and Shell if those companies were bad for the environment.
No, clearly, these are environmentally friendly companies.
Dril, baby, drill!
Harry Percival
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