But sir, the Shackle Maker 2000™ by Shackle Corp® is open source. You could, theoretically, use it to make more than shackles.
#CorporateOpenSource #openSource #openAsInOpenForBusiness #BigTech #openWashing #FOSS
d@nny disc@ mc²
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#OpenWashing has become a growing issue in the Free Software community. Many companies claim to be working on “Open Source” or “Free Software” while distributing proprietary software products.
We at the @fsfe would like to learn more about current market practices, and we need your help!
Please share your views and experiences on openwashing here:
https://share.fsfe.org/apps/forms/s/Z6xHfa8EiXk77FFreg2R6A6T
Please spread the word, any input is welcome!
RE: https://podcasts.social/@engkiosk/115697063402130187
Gerade erschienen: FSFE Policy Project Manager @johas spricht im @engkiosk ausführlich über #PublicCode im deutschsprachigen Raum.
Warum bekommen wir digitale Souveränität nur mit Freier Software? Welche Rolle spielt der #DeutschlandStack? Wo können sich @Bundesregierung und @BMDS gerade #Österreich zum Vorbild nehmen? Wie kann Freie Software strategisch beschafft werden? Wie gefährlich ist #Openwashing?
📻 Die Episode könnt ihr hier hören: https://engineeringkiosk.dev/podcast/episode/232-public-money-public-code-mit-johannes-n%C3%A4der-von-der-free-software-foundation-europe
Bonnie
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🎉 It’s FRIDAY!!! ⚡ Even if it’s not Software Freedom Podcast day… we’ve got a surprise drop for you! 😎🎧
To celebrate episode #40, we’re diving into the wild world of #openwashing with @annabonnie & @johas 💬
🎉 It’s FRIDAY!!! ⚡ Even if it’s not Software Freedom Podcast day… we’ve got a surprise drop for you! 😎🎧
To celebrate episode #40, we’re diving into the wild world of #openwashing with @annabonnie & @johas 💬
@landley @eruwero @maybeanerd but if your goal is to "commit asset-denial" against GAFAMs then shure, #AGPLv3 is a shure-fire method to have neither corporate users nor -sponsors…
- If you expect to be paid to maintain #FLOSS you need to find a company willing to do that, and they certainly won't do AGPL but either #openwashing with " #SourceAvailable" shit like #SSPL or choose #0BSD up to #GPLv2.
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
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Proton released an "AI" (Lumo) that they market as open source. About that... with zero openness features checked it is the least open "open" model ever to arrive in the European OS AI index
Compare Lumo, Deepseek and OLMo: https://osai-index.eu/compare?models=OLMo,deepseek-v3,lumo
Until Proton tells us more about the base LLM and other aspects of this system, it is officially the least open LLM that is marketed as "open source"
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Proton released an "AI" (Lumo) that they market as open source. About that... with zero openness features checked it is the least open "open" model ever to arrive in the European OS AI index
Compare Lumo, Deepseek and OLMo: https://osai-index.eu/compare?models=OLMo,deepseek-v3,lumo
Until Proton tells us more about the base LLM and other aspects of this system, it is officially the least open LLM that is marketed as "open source"
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Joseph Nuthalapati :fbx:
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Typical #Microsoft being Microsoft. And he's right when he says they have "miserably incompetent IT." Having to deal with their sign-in methods is a pain when it works. Imagine how much when it doesn't because your account is locked out, but then requires you to sign in to file an appeal.
These are the reasons why I stick with #FOSS, and not the kind Microsoft says it supports (#OpenWashing). #LibreOffice
Typical #Microsoft being Microsoft. And he's right when he says they have "miserably incompetent IT." Having to deal with their sign-in methods is a pain when it works. Imagine how much when it doesn't because your account is locked out, but then requires you to sign in to file an appeal.
These are the reasons why I stick with #FOSS, and not the kind Microsoft says it supports (#OpenWashing). #LibreOffice
Emelia 👸🏻
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The only way Microsoft should be involved in a European Sovereign Tech Fund is if we fund it by taxing the living shit out of them.
But having them organise and influence it (and who gets funded by it), thereby de facto giving Microsoft EU taxpayer subsidies? Get the fuck out of here.
There are no words to describe how angry this attempt at corporate capture gets me when we’ve been working on sovereign tech in the EU for the past seven years with zero EU funding (not for lack of trying).
Note which people and organisations allow their names to be used to legitimise this effort so you don’t trust a thing they say on this subject in the future.
https://github.blog/open-source/maintainers/we-need-a-european-sovereign-tech-fund/
#EU#FOSS #freedom #tech #funding#EuropeanSovereignTechFund#corporateCapture#openWashing#BigTech #microsoft#GitHub
Aral Balkan
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We do need a European Sovereign Tech Fund, yes.
What we don’t need is Microsoft – a trillion-dollar surveillance capitalist from the US that peddles proprietary technology and is helping Israel carry out its genocide of the Palestinian people as we speak – having anything whatsoever to do with it.
#microsoft #github #europeanSovereignTechFund #openWashing #corporateCapture #EU #tech #openSource #freeSoftware #FOSS #israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #Palestine #Gaza #WestBank https://ohai.social/@senficon/114904112159509578
The only way Microsoft should be involved in a European Sovereign Tech Fund is if we fund it by taxing the living shit out of them.
But having them organise and influence it (and who gets funded by it), thereby de facto giving Microsoft EU taxpayer subsidies? Get the fuck out of here.
There are no words to describe how angry this attempt at corporate capture gets me when we’ve been working on sovereign tech in the EU for the past seven years with zero EU funding (not for lack of trying).
Note which people and organisations allow their names to be used to legitimise this effort so you don’t trust a thing they say on this subject in the future.
https://github.blog/open-source/maintainers/we-need-a-european-sovereign-tech-fund/
#EU#FOSS #freedom #tech #funding#EuropeanSovereignTechFund#corporateCapture#openWashing#BigTech #microsoft#GitHub
We do need a European Sovereign Tech Fund, yes.
What we don’t need is Microsoft – a trillion-dollar surveillance capitalist from the US that peddles proprietary technology and is helping Israel carry out its genocide of the Palestinian people as we speak – having anything whatsoever to do with it.
#microsoft #github #europeanSovereignTechFund #openWashing #corporateCapture #EU #tech #openSource #freeSoftware #FOSS #israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #Palestine #Gaza #WestBank https://ohai.social/@senficon/114904112159509578
Tyng-Ruey Chuang
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ETHZ and EPFL announced the release of a Large Language Model (LLM) developed on public infrastructure: Trained on the “Alps” supercomputer at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) in 8B and 70B parameters configurations, using open-source training data, respecting web crawling opt-outs during data acquisition, and natively fluent in over 1000 languages. Quoting: "The model will be fully open: source code and weights will be publicly available, and the training data will be transparent and reproducible".
I don't know how good it's going to be, but if true for me this is the real definition of "open-source" in AI (not the ridiculous, corporate-promiscuous definition by the Open Source Initiative).
#AI#LLM#ETH#EPFL #switzerland #eu #sovereignty #digitalsovereignty #opensource #osi #openwashing #privacy #gdpr