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No billionnaires at FOSDEM by @how

"If Jack Dorsey would donate $250 million to free software every year, certainly that would make a valuable recognition of his debt to the Ruby language and all the free software that he made a fortune on. But would it really compensate for all the assholiness Drew describes in this article? I think not. Billionaire money, although certainly long due for redistribution, should not be a way of passage downwards through the glass ceiling. They can look down upon us all they want, they’ll never be part of us, because what makes us, us, is not something that can be bought."

oxygen.offdem.net/t/no-billion

OFFDEM · No billionnaires at FOSDEM@onepict passed on this quite funny blog article by Drew Devault of SourceHut fame, who visited OFFDEM at least once. In his call denouncing the keynote speaker (also main sponsor of this year’s FOSDEM), No billionares at FOSDEM, he’s calling for billionaire funding of free software: In my view, billionaires are not welcome at FOSDEM. If billionaires want to participate in FOSS, I’m going to ask them to refrain from using our platforms to talk about their AI/blockchain/bitcoin/climate-disaster...
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@320x200 @how@s10y.eu Main sponsor of FOSDEM is Google, kind of a billionaire as well. They'd better pay taxes. Just saying.