Not partnering with trillion-dollar people-farming, human-rights-eroding, and democracy destroying surveillance capitalists like Meta should be the lowest of low bars when it comes to organisations that purport to work on ethical technology but, clearl...
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Not partnering with trillion-dollar people-farming, human-rights-eroding, and democracy destroying surveillance capitalists like Meta should be the lowest of low bars when it comes to organisations that purport to work on ethical technology but, clearly, even that bar is just too fucking high for some.
#SocialWebFoundation #SWF #fediverse #mastodon #pixelfed #vivaldi #writeAs #iftas #ghost #mammoth #meta #automattic #medium #flipboard #fordFoundation #fastly #institutionalCorruption #BigTech
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The problem that #SocialWebFoundation are not addressing https://hamishcampbell.com/opening-a-space-to-build-alternatives-omn/ is about change and challenge, the #NGO path they take is missing this, they do it on purpose to keep a seat at the table, which could be useful, but rarely turn out to be.
This can be fixed by https://hamishcampbell.com/tag/openprocess/ I understand this is a VERY UNCOMFORTABLE path for everyone, but it will work if backed up by https://hamishcampbell.com/?s=activism what do you think we can do to start this conversation?
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FediThing 🏳️🌈replied to hamish campbell last edited by
There seems to be an attitude that once a common good develops to a certain point, it should be handed over to for-profits to exploit, that it must not continue as a common good.
I don't understand why so many people just go along with this without questioning it.
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Professor_Stevensreplied to FediThing 🏳️🌈 last edited by
@FediThing @hamishcampbell @aral
This is an inversion of the constitutional American principle that inventors should have exclusive rights to their useful inventions only for limited times. After that, anyone can use those inventions. That's why patents expire. A patent insures an inventor's exclusive rights. But, to get a patent, the inventor has to completely explain how to duplicate the invention, and the patent is a public document.
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Evan Prodromoureplied to Professor_Stevens last edited by [email protected]
@Professor_Stevens @FediThing @hamishcampbell the ActivityPub spec is patent-free. We had to forego any patent rights when we made the spec. Then, the hundreds of members of W3C, from companies to universities to governments, reviewed it and said they did not have, or would not enforce, patents on the protocol or its approaches. One nice thing about implementing a standard from an official standards group is that it's as clean as you can get for patents.