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| schestowitz | https://www.fosslife.org/open-source-alternatives-try-2023 | Jan 04 14:51 |
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| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.fosslife.org | Open Source Alternatives to Try in 2023 | Jan 04 14:51 | |
| schestowitz | " | Jan 04 14:51 |
| schestowitz | Open source offers many alternatives to popular proprietary applications that can improve the quality of life for you and your team, says Don Watkins. | Jan 04 14:51 |
| schestowitz | In this article, Watkins rounds up a variety of open source tools to consider in place of proprietary products, such as Mastodon in place of Twitter. | Jan 04 14:51 |
| schestowitz | Other open source solutions to check out include: | Jan 04 14:51 |
| schestowitz | Rocket.Chat or Delta Chat as chat tools | Jan 04 14:51 |
| schestowitz | Kdenlive and Flowblade for video editing | Jan 04 14:51 |
| schestowitz | Egroupware as a groupware solution | Jan 04 14:51 |
| schestowitz | " | Jan 04 14:51 |
| schestowitz | Re: coercion & deception | Jan 04 15:08 |
| schestowitz | > There is already some good coverage of people being coerced, e.g. the | Jan 04 15:08 |
| schestowitz | > email to Renata and the demotion email that Dr Preining published. | Jan 04 15:08 |
| schestowitz | A demotion in the context of unpaid work is a weird concept. | Jan 04 15:08 |
| schestowitz | > The analysis of the way the FSFE fellowship worked, with fake membership | Jan 04 15:08 |
| schestowitz | > cards, etc, is a strong example of deception because the members were | Jan 04 15:08 |
| schestowitz | > not recorded on the FSFE e.V. membership roll. | Jan 04 15:08 |
| schestowitz | > | Jan 04 15:08 |
| schestowitz | > Do you have any tag or category for your articles to help identify | Jan 04 15:08 |
| schestowitz | > coercion, in particular, doing work under coercion? | Jan 04 15:08 |
| schestowitz | Not coercion in particular, but: http://techrights.org/category/deception/ | Jan 04 15:08 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-techrights.org | Deception | Techrights | Jan 04 15:09 | |
| schestowitz | > Do you have any tag or category for your articles to help identify | Jan 04 15:09 |
| schestowitz | > deception, in particular, doing work under a deceptive relationship? | Jan 04 15:09 |
| schestowitz | > | Jan 04 15:09 |
| schestowitz | > Each of these topics, coercion and deception, can be relevant in a | Jan 04 15:09 |
| schestowitz | > modern slavery prosecution. | Jan 04 15:09 |
| schestowitz | > | Jan 04 15:09 |
| schestowitz | > - coercion or deception to contribute code | Jan 04 15:09 |
| schestowitz | > | Jan 04 15:09 |
| schestowitz | > - coercion or deception to change a license to be more permissive | Jan 04 15:09 |
| schestowitz | > | Jan 04 15:09 |
| schestowitz | > - coercion or deception to do sysadmin work | Jan 04 15:09 |
| schestowitz | > | Jan 04 15:09 |
| schestowitz | > - coercion or deception to do conference organization | Jan 04 15:09 |
| schestowitz | > | Jan 04 15:09 |
| schestowitz | > - coercion or deception to do IT support, helping users | Jan 04 15:09 |
| schestowitz | > | Jan 04 15:09 |
| schestowitz | > Some of the evidence is about coercion to say or not say something. | Jan 04 15:09 |
| schestowitz | > This may not be modern slavery. Oversimplifying it, censorship doesn't | Jan 04 15:09 |
| schestowitz | > always relate to doing unpaid work. But if it intersects with the work | Jan 04 15:09 |
| schestowitz | > somebody is doing then there could be an issue. | Jan 04 15:09 |
| schestowitz | Some times this month or next month I will show how my employer tried to use my job as pretext to offer support to their family friend: | Jan 04 15:09 |
| schestowitz | http://techrights.org/wiki/Sirius_Open_Source | Jan 04 15:09 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-techrights.org | Sirius Open Source - Techrights | Jan 04 15:09 | |
| schestowitz | > Both the Daniel Baumann and Norbert Preining emails are encouraging them | Jan 04 15:09 |
| schestowitz | > to continue doing Debian work under a framework of coercion. This is | Jan 04 15:09 |
| schestowitz | > distinct from emails to Renata telling her what to say. | Jan 04 15:09 |
| schestowitz | The above mentions the role of guilt and humiliation to coerce workers. One more examples of that will be published tonight. Instructions under threat. | Jan 04 15:09 |
| schestowitz | > From time to time I've seen comments from companies who felt pressured | Jan 04 15:09 |
| schestowitz | > to use an open source license. For example, I feel that the tone of | Jan 04 15:09 |
| schestowitz | > this article was shaming xTuple into changing their license, without | Jan 04 15:09 |
| schestowitz | > giving any economic reason why xTuple would benefit from changing it: | Jan 04 15:09 |
| schestowitz | > | Jan 04 15:09 |
| schestowitz | > https://web.archive.org/web/20080122022821/http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9749950-16.html | Jan 04 15:09 |
| schestowitz | I remember the xTuple debacle very well. | Jan 04 15:09 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-web.archive.org | OpenMFG transforms into xTuple, but misses the open-source train | The Open Road - The Business and Politics of Open Source by Matt Asay - CNET Blogs | Jan 04 15:09 | |
| schestowitz | > Agreed, they had been a bit naive when they started using the term open | Jan 04 15:09 |
| schestowitz | > source. But rather than mocking them, I think that the blog could have | Jan 04 15:09 |
| schestowitz | > simply left the reader with the choice, e.g. "xTuple needs to either | Jan 04 15:09 |
| schestowitz | > adopt an OSI approved license or avoid using the term open source" | Jan 04 15:09 |
| schestowitz | OSI is corrupt, deeply corrupt, it became a front group for Microsoft and proprietary GitHub. | Jan 04 15:09 |
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