Submitted 2 months ago by thenexusofprivacy@lemmy.blahaj.zone to technology@beehaw.org
https://substack.com/home/post/p-155550585
Excellent article by Afsaneh Rigot, author of the Design from the Margins methodology.
Yes, it is possible. I think it will be something like this:
where proprietary software will eventually be replaced by FOSS software. it just takes a while (Linux was released in 1991).
Great points … and yes that is a key question!
come to our matrix chat room where we discuss how to enable the fediverse for new users:
Aparrently not
chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Free software is the only way possible
mox@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
Libre software is important, and relates to the article insofar as it can help keep our own devices from spying on us, but software is but an incidental detail within a larger problem. This is about abusive power structures, bad actors with too much influence, and profit taking precedence over human rights. No software license will solve it.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Further, decentralized software means fuck-all when all the hardware and pipes are owned by corporations and governments.
hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 2 months ago
Even if it allows the user to modify the software and for example remove the spying and then redistribute that to other people, as Free Software does?