Aral Balkan
Nah, don’t worry, it’ll be ok. They’ve been sponsored by Google for years. Even Facebook at one point.
It’s open source… it’s about the source being open. It’s open as in “open for business”.
The “F” in FOSDEM is silent.
It’ll be fine…
#FOSDEM #institutionalCorruption #openSource #openForBusiness #BigTech #PR #Google #Facebook https://mastodon.cloud/@mfeilner/113859797648383354
Aral Balkan
@m0xee Yeah, man, exactly the fucking same thing. Thanks, I know we live in a sewer and I’m doing the best I can by USING what’s there. How the fuck is that the same as TAKING MONEY FROM them?
But yeah, sure, what the fuck ever.
m0xEE
@aral
Well, if Aral has no problem using a laptop made by Apple running an OS made by Apple and building his web development kit on top of Node.js, for which V8 — a project headed by Google, is a hard dependency*, then there is indeed nothing wrong with them 😏
* — there were attempts to port it to other JS engines, but none stuck, all of them are abandoned, therefore Node is built on Google technology
Aral Balkan
@bladecoder That makes a lot of sense. Would’ve been better to leave the F off rather than it lose its meaning, or worse, be used as public relations.
Christophe B. :android:
@aral FOSDEM was called OSDEM during its first year until Stallman requested the "F"
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