@mike_hales@mako Most coop people don't understand software, let alone Free Software. Most Free Software people don't understand coops. The intersection of these two groups is tiny, but hopefully growing.
What I would like to see would be more people interested in learning, and less people trying to impose their very particualr views on the other camp.
The implied assumption that Free Software projects can't possibly stay honest is indicative that a lot more work is needed.
@mako@mike_hales Free Software was built to free people from their shackles. Free Software was almost exclusively built by Free Software people. It would be a good thing if people arrived into the world of Free Software with humble aspirations to learn how the Free Software collaborative mode of production came into being in its 30+ years of existence, and undeniable success.
«[..] ¿Y quiénes se están quedando fuera de este mundo feliz? A lo largo de estos veinte años las sombras de la globalización feliz han cubierto grandes dimensiones de la vida local y planetaria en forma de guerra, de crisis económica, de autoritarismo político y de amenaza ambiental. [..]»
@auroch in the film ... if you exchange humans killing other humans for a piece of land ... by humans killing (other) animals, it illustrates the biological story of Planet Earth ?
TL;DR Industry insiders aren't going to save anyone from anything. Tweaking around with "screen time" or interface design or adding extra "street cred" from a younger generation doesn't address any of the real problems with Sillicon Valley.
If any of these rich morons were actually sincere they would have to abandon their business models and start again with federated and distributed systems with no data concentration. But of course they're not going to do that.
Why join the FSF? A member testimonial: "After 2 decades as a sysadmin and programmer I am thoroughly convinced that the position of the FSF has always been correct. Non-free software is subversive of the rights of all citizens of the world." https://my.fsf.org/join