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Happy Software Freedom Day [16th of September 2023] (www.softwarefreedomday.org)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

Looks like a really nice and useful initiative.

Suggestion to the owners of the SFD webpage

I would appreciate the SFD initiative even more, if on the SFD webpage you would "live by your own words".

Facebook and the blue bird are by no means free software, also not according to your definitions "free to study [how the program works]", "free to distribute [copies]", "free to modify [the software]", "free to access [the source code]".

So why not at least show the benefits and use FOSS social media alternatives in action?
If you need the momentum of the unfree social media, you still could do this additionally.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That's why we specifically mentioned Fediverse and FOSS alternatives to get the word out about Software Freedom Day here: https://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/SFDMarketingSites The DFF board discussed this topic and wants to continue to reach out to people who don't know about FOSS and the Fediverse. So, we are trying to meet them where they are and let them know about the benefits of using FOSS. Also, one of the groups did a talk on switching from X to Mastodon: https://mobilizon.fr/events/1ab64af3-b99e-473d-87da-7ad07497ab41 If you have suggestions for the web site, please join the SFD discussion mailing list and add your input. The new DFF board will be redesigning the entire site for next year, but did not have time to do so for the 20th edition of Software Freedom Day. Their main goal was making sure that we still had a Software Freedom Day this year after the old board stepped down.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Thank you for your detailed explanation and the wiki link 🙂. Good to hear that this (side-) topic is on the agenda.

As mentioned, I really appreciate your work around education and awareness of FOSS principles and chances
and I wish you a nice (remaining) Software Freedom Day.

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