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1. Dave Lane 🇳🇿 (lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Thursday, 16-Feb-2023 03:46:14 JST Dave Lane 🇳🇿

   If you want to see how TechSoup is railroading NGOs/Charities into a full dependence on proprietary software (note: they actively avoid mentioning #FOSS options), see attached screenshot. I consider the organisation to be a menace, disingenuously misinforming vulnerable organisations to benefit its real funders, 'big tech'. If there was any justice, their name would be mud. They are a horrible, self-serving organisation selling themselves as a trusted ally to the under-resourced tech-ignorant.

   • Jens Finkhäuser (jens@social.finkhaeuser.de)'s status on Thursday, 16-Feb-2023 03:46:10 JST Jens Finkhäuser

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     • wizzwizz4

     @lightweight @wizzwizz4 Well, EU governments are increasingly (if slowly) veering towards FOSS, and it looks like they also publish about it.

     NGOs could learn from this. E.g. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/collection/open-source-observatory-osor/document/swedish-public-open-source-movement-working-bottom

   • Dave Lane 🇳🇿 (lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Thursday, 16-Feb-2023 03:46:12 JST Dave Lane 🇳🇿

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     • wizzwizz4

     @wizzwizz4 probably not, as it would require a lot of resources - like what a gov't regional development fund might be applied to, if gov'ts were smart about tech and saw #FOSS as digital 'critical infrastructure' and funded it like they fund physical critical infrastructure. Sadly, pretty uniformly around the globe, they're not. Not even slightly. They're almost all entirely in the pockets of big tech. Corruption is pervasive.

     Adrian Cochrane repeated this.
   • wizzwizz4 (wizzwizz4@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 16-Feb-2023 03:46:13 JST wizzwizz4

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     @lightweight I wonder whether there's anyone running a mailing list like this, but providing more useful, ethical, single-edged advice.