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!
Category: Ethics
Ethics, Proprietary software
The only meaningful answer
The only meaningful answer to this: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire Coding Site GitHub is this: Alternatives to GitHub for all platforms with Open Source License That is,GitLab
Ethics, Proprietary hardware, Smartphones
Haloa, Huawei
Huawei Will No Longer Allow Bootloader Unlocking On Its Android Handsets – Slashdot So I have only one word to say to Huawei: Addio, adieu As long as you will keep your hardware closed I will never buy your products and I will actively ask people to avoid it.
Ethics
No Superuser Privileges, dude!
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.
Ethics
Customer Experience and Discrimination
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…
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Ethics
Librem 5 – A Security and Privacy Focused Phone – Purism
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…
Ethics, Social networks, Web
Users are the advertizers, us are the product
Fom a 2012, oldish but goldish Le Web Interview to Matt Mullenweg:
“Instagram primary users are not what we think of as users, it’s advertisers, and us are the product”.