Librethreat Forecast

From Techrights

Revision as of 21:07, 25 February 2020

Summary: The Free Software movement in the wild

DRM

• Trend: Netflix will be the next President of the United States
• Because screw customers, that's why
• Mitigating: at least people are complaining

Apathy

• Trend: suspense
• Mitigating: coup exposed

Privacy

• Trend: dangerous
• Even Google claims to be worried
• Mitigating: various bans on face-recognition

Organisational Co-opting

• Trend: Awful
• Bruce even resigned again, partying like it's 1999
• Mitigating: coup exposed

GNU/Linux Co-opting

• Trend: being fought
• GNU structure being established

Other Free Software Co-opting

• Trend: pretty dangerous
• Github, GSoC, EME, Flatpak, Python
• Mitigating: at least they asked

GPL / Copyleft

• Trend: slight increase in awareness
• Right idea, wrong reasons
• Mitigating: AGPL is doing alright

Cloud

• Trend: steady increase
• It doesn't exist, but GAFAM is all over it
• Mitigating: a trend towards poverty?

Code of Conduct

• Trend: minor improvements in awareness
• People know that others are being censored over nonsense
• Mitigating: not a lot

Bigotry, hate, discrimination

• Trend: anybody's guess
• Who would you trust to monitor the status of this?
• Mitigating: see Trend

Away From Keyboard

• Free Software Foundation India
• * Free Software Force, which really needs to update its blog/website now that the coup is exposed

Related pages:

• Free Software Foundation
• Free Software timeline
• Librethreat Database