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Funding free software§

[[Free software]]

GitHub - nicksellen/funding-transparency-presentation https://social.coop/@nicksellen/107649242110639994

I have benefitted hugely from free software§

Most of the [[Software/services that I use]] are [[free software]].

Most of my academic and working life has involved the use of free software.

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I like free software§

[[I like]] [[Free software]].

Because…§

Selfish reasons§

• [[I have benefitted hugely from free software]]

Social reasons§

• [[Free software enacts ‘from each according to their ability, to each according to their need’]]
• [[Free software affords digital self-governance]]

Epistemic status§

Type : [[feeling]]

Strength : 8

How well I could explain why : 3

On the Sustainability of Free Software§

URL : https://fsfe.org/freesoftware/sustainability/sustainability.html

Authors : Erik Albers / FSFE

> A definition of [[software sustainability]] is introduced and its characteristics. It is shown how the inherent characteristics of [[Free Software]] are sustainable as well as their impact on IT infrastructures. [[Software obsolescence]] is explained and the possibilities of using Free Software to save natural resources by extending hardware usage lifetime and through energy consumption savings. Finally, four politically necessary directives for a more sustainable digital society are outlined.  

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> the [[FSFE]] demands the publication of a device's underlying source code under a free licence 30 at the end of support for any software necessary to run or modify the initial functioning of the device.

political economy of free software§

Proprietary empires built on free software§

Existing arguments about how large tech companies freely use open-source software as a foundation to build their proprietary empires must also be supplemented with the ways in which free – and waged – labour are brought into the ambit of companies via things like open-source frameworks

– Data, Compute, Labour | Ada Lovelace Institute

public sector free software§

[[public sector]] [[free software]].