Librethreat Forecast
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Summary: The Free Software movement in the wild
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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: foreboding
- Bruce even resigned again, partying like it's 1999 Now ESR is cancelled
- Mitigating: the coup is acting desperate
GNU/Linux Co-opting
- Trend: foreboding
- GNU structure being established
Other Free Software Co-opting
- Trend: dangerous
- Github, GSoC, EME, Flatpak, Python
- Mitigating: not everyone is naive enough to fall for the official narrative
GPL / Copyleft
- Trend: slight increase in awareness
- Right idea, wrong reasons
- Mitigating: ?
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, escalation in tactics from censors and liars
- 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
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