On 21/06/17 11:22, 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. >
There was a post on Twitter a while back regarding e-safety or privacy, to which I replied that I used diaspora, it respects freedom. I think in some ways we sometimes have to embrace services that don't quite meet our standards in order to get a message across there are 'other' services out there. I think in the US electorial details were stored on amazon cloud, there has been a leak so anyone who has a link can access the personal details on over 200 million people in the US electorate, I think replying to comments on social media with the 'There is no cloud, just other peoples computer' sends a message to make people think that this cloud storage belongs to others, and privacy is at the mercy of others, where as setting up Own/next cloud puts _you_ in control of your own information, maybe makes people think how their data is stored. I think replying to incidents and related discussions with suggestions there is 'shock horror' more to life and the internet than IE/Edge, Facebook, twitter is a good thing, we are not ramming it down peoples throats buit being subtle and subliminal in the way we respond. Paul _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list Discussion@lists.fsfe.org https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
