If you take just one thing away from #FOSDEM this is it.
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If you take just one thing away from #FOSDEM this is it.
“If we lose our democracies, Open Source is irrelevant and goes away”
or putting it another way:
If we don’t apply, enforce, adopt and embrace Open Source in our public and government institutions we risk to lose our democracies.
#OpenSource #SaveDemocracy
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@amirbkhan without democracy a lot of wonderful achievements will be no more; just imagine if we lost the light of human rights in the darkness, that is growing all over the world. Open source, human social development, choices and chances... will only go on if we all keep our freedom, our creativity to work toward a better future.
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If you take just one thing away from #FOSDEM this is it.
“If we lose our democracies, Open Source is irrelevant and goes away”
or putting it another way:
If we don’t apply, enforce, adopt and embrace Open Source in our public and government institutions we risk to lose our democracies.
#OpenSource #SaveDemocracy
Boost if you agree!@amirbkhan Partially agree with the statement as democracy existed way before open source, although it’s true that FOSS enforce the democratic processus inside gouvernment and institutions.
After, will an authoritarian regime might not see any benefit as promoting FOSS, some open source initiative can still exist but will be heavily monitored by the gouvernment, like Red Star OS from the North Korean. -
If you take just one thing away from #FOSDEM this is it.
“If we lose our democracies, Open Source is irrelevant and goes away”
or putting it another way:
If we don’t apply, enforce, adopt and embrace Open Source in our public and government institutions we risk to lose our democracies.
#OpenSource #SaveDemocracy
Boost if you agree!@amirbkhan The other way around is also true: If our democracies don't switch to Open Source software, we will lose democracy.
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If you take just one thing away from #FOSDEM this is it.
“If we lose our democracies, Open Source is irrelevant and goes away”
or putting it another way:
If we don’t apply, enforce, adopt and embrace Open Source in our public and government institutions we risk to lose our democracies.
#OpenSource #SaveDemocracy
Boost if you agree!@amirbkhan 1/2
#freesoftware and #opensource will continue, regardless IMHO. They exist in dictatorships, socialist and other regimes. They are sturdier because they chase an ideal of democracy.We tend to say #democracy is under threat, and to a large extent this is true - the very nature of the ideal.
But when people use it, they sometimes confuse the ideal with the varied implementations which were already broken by design when compared with the ideal.
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@amirbkhan 1/2
#freesoftware and #opensource will continue, regardless IMHO. They exist in dictatorships, socialist and other regimes. They are sturdier because they chase an ideal of democracy.We tend to say #democracy is under threat, and to a large extent this is true - the very nature of the ideal.
But when people use it, they sometimes confuse the ideal with the varied implementations which were already broken by design when compared with the ideal.
@amirbkhan 2/2
Both implementations of democracy and the ideal are constantly under threat. Now more than any time in my lifetime.
The nature of #freesoftware and #opensource is to be against closed, proprietary systems. Tools for individuals. It has ALWAYS been a resistance to closed, proprietary systems.
In that regard, it echoes more #volunteerism than #democracy. That it is a tool democracy can and should use should not be conflated, imho.
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If you take just one thing away from #FOSDEM this is it.
“If we lose our democracies, Open Source is irrelevant and goes away”
or putting it another way:
If we don’t apply, enforce, adopt and embrace Open Source in our public and government institutions we risk to lose our democracies.
#OpenSource #SaveDemocracy
Boost if you agree!@amirbkhan A liberal democratic society must include the right to develop and share technology, adopting openly developed and shared technology can certainly aid in protecting liberal democracy.
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If you take just one thing away from #FOSDEM this is it.
“If we lose our democracies, Open Source is irrelevant and goes away”
or putting it another way:
If we don’t apply, enforce, adopt and embrace Open Source in our public and government institutions we risk to lose our democracies.
#OpenSource #SaveDemocracy
Boost if you agree!@amirbkhan I can't agree on a cause and effect relationship. What I see is that Open Source and Democracy have a lot in common, and it's lack of participation and just fucking guts that kills either/both.
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If you take just one thing away from #FOSDEM this is it.
“If we lose our democracies, Open Source is irrelevant and goes away”
or putting it another way:
If we don’t apply, enforce, adopt and embrace Open Source in our public and government institutions we risk to lose our democracies.
#OpenSource #SaveDemocracy
Boost if you agree!@amirbkhan a technological fix will not solve a sociological problem.
Open source won't prevent the loss of democracy. It may make it easier to defend, in some scenarios, but it won't help when it's not facts being debated. Or an open source orphan crushing machine is still an orphan crushing machine.
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If you take just one thing away from #FOSDEM this is it.
“If we lose our democracies, Open Source is irrelevant and goes away”
or putting it another way:
If we don’t apply, enforce, adopt and embrace Open Source in our public and government institutions we risk to lose our democracies.
#OpenSource #SaveDemocracy
Boost if you agree!@amirbkhan And the billionaire techno feudalists humanity hater pedophile tech bros are actively attempting to destroy democracy.
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If you take just one thing away from #FOSDEM this is it.
“If we lose our democracies, Open Source is irrelevant and goes away”
or putting it another way:
If we don’t apply, enforce, adopt and embrace Open Source in our public and government institutions we risk to lose our democracies.
#OpenSource #SaveDemocracy
Boost if you agree!@amirbkhan I disagree with the first part, but agree with your added second part:
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If you take just one thing away from #FOSDEM this is it.
“If we lose our democracies, Open Source is irrelevant and goes away”
or putting it another way:
If we don’t apply, enforce, adopt and embrace Open Source in our public and government institutions we risk to lose our democracies.
#OpenSource #SaveDemocracy
Boost if you agree!@amirbkhan @FiLiS
Yes but also IMHO another very important conclusion is where and for who you demonstrate your passion for the technology and the opensource!
It’s important to admit that “I’m neutral” and “I do tech for tech” are really nothing but lies!
People who make technologies accessible for dictatorships and oppressors, whether they approve of them or not, are complices!
(Eg. state censorship machines of some countries that most likely is run by IT experts who sold their souls) -
If you take just one thing away from #FOSDEM this is it.
“If we lose our democracies, Open Source is irrelevant and goes away”
or putting it another way:
If we don’t apply, enforce, adopt and embrace Open Source in our public and government institutions we risk to lose our democracies.
#OpenSource #SaveDemocracy
Boost if you agree!@amirbkhan Big tech, closed-source American tech with big moats, is perhaps the biggest threat to the freedoms currently enjoyed in most of Europe. It has corroded the best founding principles of America, and it knows no bounds. Unless checked, it will grow at all costs. All.
Open source, decentralized, federated, no vendor lock-in, etc, etc, are the ways to go. -
If you take just one thing away from #FOSDEM this is it.
“If we lose our democracies, Open Source is irrelevant and goes away”
or putting it another way:
If we don’t apply, enforce, adopt and embrace Open Source in our public and government institutions we risk to lose our democracies.
#OpenSource #SaveDemocracy
Boost if you agree!@amirbkhan @_elena I don’t think you have quite understood the message there.
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@amirbkhan a technological fix will not solve a sociological problem.
Open source won't prevent the loss of democracy. It may make it easier to defend, in some scenarios, but it won't help when it's not facts being debated. Or an open source orphan crushing machine is still an orphan crushing machine.
@zimzat @amirbkhan yes. open source is completely compatible with authoritarianism so it can also flourish under fascism... just look at e.g. the fate of worker cooperatives under the franco dictatorship
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