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But FOSS' success up until this point has shown the exact opposite.
FOSS was bootstrapped by using proprietary software every single day for more than a decade, at least.
Most FOSS developers regularly used proprietary technologies daily for their work for the entirety of FOSS' history.
Plus, what @copiesofcopies said:
https://fedi.copyleft.org/@copiesofcopies@social.coop/117457049015278425
Cc: @cwebber
#LLMGenAI #LLM #AI #FOSS #SoftwareFreedom #OpenSource #FreeSoftware
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I further am quite confident that we can rework #copyleft licenses to address most of the worst problems that #LLMGenAI represents for the future of #SoftwareFreedom.
I've been working on itsince ≈2026-05. It's slow going, but I'm confident that #CopyleftNext will present a good solution.
Meanwhile, I recently asked for @cwebber's help toward this, but didn't receive a response. If you have time, pls respond to this:
https://fedi.copyleft.org/@bkuhn/117425328332275949
We are happy to announce 47 free and open source projects have been selected for the 12th round of the NGI Zero Commons Fund.
The efforts of these teams all go toward strengthening the digital commons, and we thank them for their contribution to more digital autonomy for everyone.
NGI Zero will provide them with practical and financial support, kindly made possible by @EC_NGI
Here's an overview of all 47. Come and meet the projects!
https://nlnet.nl/news/2026/20261015-47-new-projects.html
Happy Birthday to us 🎂! Today KDE is 30 years old!
And, boy, do we have treats for you!
#KDEat30 #FreeSoftware #anniversary #party #birthday
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Konqi is excited to eat his 30th anniversary birthday cake.
First up: Plasma 6.8 - 30th Anniversary Edition is here!
https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.8.0/
And it comes packed with new stuff.
Among other cool things, a new and improved remote desktop system, which is more performant comes with an exclusivity mode and shared clipboard; more calendars and keyboards for more cultures and languages; and better accessibility and usability features.
#KDEat30 #FreeSoftware #anniversary #desktop #release
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All six version of KDE/Plasma slide in and out
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Overview of the new Plasma 6.8 desktop.
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A view of the on-screen keyboard showing Amharic letters and layout.
Fedi friends: Please tell me what you would include if you had only 90 minutes to give a group of progressives a "crash course on copyleft and getting off of big tech"?
#FOSS #copyleft #askFedi #FreeSoftware #FLOSS #BigTech #activism #anarchism #SkillSharing #tech
It was great to see some familiar and new faces and even some people from the fedi too 🙂
#GLLUG #FreeSoftware #Meetup #FSFE #London #ShotOnLibrem5
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Photo showing the lid of a laptop, which is filled with stickers. There are so many overlapping over each other that barely 10% of the laptop lid itself is visible. The newest / highest are an "I Love Free Software" and "This Computer is not old" stickers from the FSFE, as well as a sticker of the orange OMEMO fish logo. Other stickers include a couple of rows of NLnet hex stickers, Open Rights Group stickers on the laptop hinge, a variety of XMPP stickers including Monal, Conversations, XMPP network graph, big OpenStreetMap and FSF stickers, as well as sourceware and Software Freedom Conservancy stickers in the bottom left corner. Below these free software related stickers, some Formula 1 related stickers, with some helmets, race cars and team logos, can be barely seen peeking through.
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A close-up photo of the same laptop, focused on the FSFE's "This Computer is not old" sticker. It shows a retro-looking grey pop-up box on a blue background, which looks like it comes from a boot screen or non-graphical linux install. The title of the popup box is "fsfe.org". Inside, the box says: "This computer is not old, it is sustainable." There are two buttons at the bottom of the box, the left (selected) one says "OK" and the right one says "Cancel". Also visible in frame, surrounding/underneath the sticker, are the edges of an OpenStreetMap sticker, a McLaren F1 car sticker, a Phosh sticker, a GNU sticker and an IndyCar sticker.
I hope to be there once I finish with work, probably a couple of hours after it starts.
- Date: Saturday 8th August 2026
- Time: 1pm onwards
- Location: The Metropolitan Bar (OpenStreetMap)
- RSVP: not required.
It's not a reserved venue, so look for a table with lots of stickers, and Polarian wearing the EuroBSDCon 2024 (Dublin) tshirt (with artwork like this).
We'll be here for a few hours and possibly heading to a pub afterwards.
Come join us if you're in London and fancy a casual chat about #FreeSoftware!
- Date: Saturday 16th May 2026
- Time: midday - 4pm (London time)
- Location: Canada Water Library Meeting Room 1 (OpenStreetMap)
- RSVP: Reply to this message, email me, or message me here on the fediverse, so we know rough numbers.
Another year to make a #CyborgMonday joke! For your future cyborg self, invest in #software freedom!
https://sfconservancy.org/sustainer/
Also check out the hot deals on #freesoftware! Dozens of software projects available at deep discount prices. Act now!
I started migrating from #NextCloud to #Radicale, but iOS threw a spanner in the works (turns out accountsd only checks for A and not AAAA DNS records!) I decided to go into a "half-migrated" state: pointing myself to the new instance to continue testing while leaving my partner pointing to the old one.
That caused a problem: any events we created in the meantime wouldn't be synced to the other's devices.
vdirsyncer came in super handy and enabled a three-way sync between NextCloud, Radicale and my laptop! So, despite being on two completely different #CalDAV servers, we both see exactly the same state and all updates flow through seamlessly. And, when they switch instance, it will be like nothing ever happened, despite being on different servers for a few weeks.
Thank you #openStandards and #freeSoftware!