Librethreat Forecast
From Techrights
Summary: The Free Software movement in the wild
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DRM
- Trend: Netflix will be the next President of the United States
- They still haven't figured out how to add it to real paper
- Mitigation: the "real paper" part ought to be here, and it isn't
Apathy
- Trend: general resignation
- You don't even hear about RMS at this point
- Mitigating: whatever
Privacy
- Trend: extremely dangerous
- Even Google claims to be worried
- Mitigating: various bans of face-recognition
Organisational Co-opting
- Trend: Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria
- Bruce even resigned again, partying like it's 1999
- Mitigating: it can't get much worse without more people noticing
GNU/Linux Co-opting
- Trend: dangerous
- Not much good news to report
- Mitigating: MX, Antix, Hyperbola
Other Free Software Co-opting
- Trend: dangerous
- Github, GSoC, EME, Flatpak
- Mitigating: ?
GPL / Copyleft
- Trend: really not great
- Possible migration from RMS/FSF to LF/MS/SFC
- Mitigating: AGPL is doing alright
Cloud
- Trend: steady increase
- It doesn't exist, but GAFAM is all over it
- Mitigating: ?
Code of Conduct
- Trend: minor improvements in awareness
- People know that others are being censored over nonsense
- Mitigating: not much
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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