If you take just one thing away from #FOSDEM this is it.

[amirbkhan@mastodon.social]

If you take just one thing away from #FOSDEM this is it.
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“If we lose our democracies, Open Source is irrelevant and goes away”

or putting it another way:

If we don’t apply, enforce, adopt and embrace Open Source in our public and government institutions we risk to lose our democracies.
#OpenSource #SaveDemocracy
Boost if you agree!
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[hyde@lazybear.social]

@amirbkhan all those f*ckers of techbros dont believe in democracies anymore. They all want free cities, islands, or any part of the world ruled like a company.

And, that's why they are all licking tho orange puppet's ass ...

[energisch_@troet.cafe]

@amirbkhan without democracy a lot of wonderful achievements will be no more; just imagine if we lost the light of human rights in the darkness, that is growing all over the world. Open source, human social development, choices and chances... will only go on if we all keep our freedom, our creativity to work toward a better future.

[kingmoth@mastodon.social]

@amirbkhan Partially agree with the statement as democracy existed way before open source, although it’s true that FOSS enforce the democratic processus inside gouvernment and institutions.
After, will an authoritarian regime might not see any benefit as promoting FOSS, some open source initiative can still exist but will be heavily monitored by the gouvernment, like Red Star OS from the North Korean.

[astamccarthy@mastodon.pirateparty.be]

@amirbkhan The other way around is also true: If our democracies don't switch to Open Source software, we will lose democracy.

#Democracy #OpenSource

[knowprose@mastodon.social]

@amirbkhan 1/2
#freesoftware and #opensource will continue, regardless IMHO. They exist in dictatorships, socialist and other regimes. They are sturdier because they chase an ideal of democracy.

We tend to say #democracy is under threat, and to a large extent this is true - the very nature of the ideal.

But when people use it, they sometimes confuse the ideal with the varied implementations which were already broken by design when compared with the ideal.

[knowprose@mastodon.social]

@amirbkhan 2/2

Both implementations of democracy and the ideal are constantly under threat. Now more than any time in my lifetime.

The nature of #freesoftware and #opensource is to be against closed, proprietary systems. Tools for individuals. It has ALWAYS been a resistance to closed, proprietary systems.

In that regard, it echoes more #volunteerism than #democracy. That it is a tool democracy can and should use should not be conflated, imho.