On 21.06.2017 12:22, Erik Albers wrote: > Hi all, > > Maybe you noted in the Newsletter May [1] a pro and contra between our > Executive Director and our Fellowship representative: > > On the FSFE's Planet, we had an interesting dialogue popping up > between our executive director Jonas Öberg who argues that sometimes > you can use proprietary software to further free and open source > software [2] although you should be aware about the risk of > backfiring. And Daniel Pocock, our new Fellowship representative, > answered with "the risk of proprietary software" [3] and that "no deal > might be better than a bad deal", meaning that if you cannot achieve > something with Free Software you should consider just doing without > it. > > In our European core team we are having a lively discussion now about the pros > and cons of using proprietary software platforms like Facebook, Meetup, > Twitter and alike to send out our message of software freedom. > > You may have noticed that the FSFE for example runs a Twitter-account. We do > this under some rules but in particular under the rule that these "services > are an addition to the FSFE's communication channels and not a replacement. > The teams have to make sure to always provide the information accessible by > using Free Software without pushing people to create accounts on proprietary > platform." > > Means that every information on a proprietary platform is only a > mulitiplication of information that is given somewhere else, accessible and > created with Free Software. > > Now I would be interested what you think? Do you think that - although the use > of proprietary platforms is ethically not supportable - the chances of > convincing new people to use and further Free Software are worth the > punishment? > Or do you think that our message should not occur on platforms like Facebook > or Twitter at all, because it contradicts our efforts in getting people to use > decentralized services, run with Free Software and therefore potentially harm > us in the long run? > > Thank you for sharing your opinions on this, > Erik > > [1] https://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201705 > [2] http://blog.jonasoberg.net/using-proprietary-software-for-freedom/ > [3] https://danielpocock.com/risks-of-using-proprietary-software > >
I think treating them as second class could be OK: 1. post on a free software platform 2. don't reply on twitter or facebook, just link to the original -Robert
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