Well, people AND companies do changes over time.

What I’m writing today was a total impossibility twenty years ago: I’m going to thanks Microsoft for releasing information under a liberal license:

Microsoft Releases 125 Million Building Footprints In the US To the OpenStreetMap Community – Slashdot

So today I can say: many kudos, Microsoft!

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Facebook’s Android App Is Asking for Superuser Privileges, Users Say – Slashdot

And the only feasible answer is to uninstall and disable it as soon as possible. Facebook shall be confined in the browser. It works fairly well.

Reading Customer Experience and Discrimination on Gumtree – Giorgio (GrG) Bonfiglio you understand that there are firms that shall be avoided and boycotted.

This may also hold for others, bigger companies, like G00G13 or AM@Z0N or F@ceb00k. Well, whe you use the first and the last you’re actually the product so you can’t really make anything else than avoid them….

Why not use Wire, Telegram, WhatsApp, or Signal?

While these all provide encryption, and some do release the client software under acceptable licensing terms, they all are walled gardens wanting you to register with them, and their server software is proprietary and therefore not acceptable to us. Matrix is the proper solution and that is why we have partnered with them.

Sorgente: Librem 5 – A Security and Privacy Focused Phone – Purism

Ok, they explain very well the doubts I have about Telegram and Signal.