@mfeilner
As #msdos 1 & 2 are completely obsolete this looks like #openwashing… they could demonstrate they really love #freeasinfreedom software releasing #msoffice with the #AfferoGPL.
All in all the other #GAFAM are currently greater enemies of people's freedom.

Is Font Awesome #opensource or are they #openwashing?

The free version is licensed under Creative Commons
Attribution 4.0 International, which is not an OSI-approved license:
https://opensource.org/licenses/

It's not software, so it's fine to use that license. But v4 was open source under SIL OFL 1.1.

I'm not a legal expert, but this seems to be source-available with a generous free license. Hence, open-washing? 🤔

Thoughts?

#foss #licensing #osi #opensourcelicensing

Meta will federate for the same reason that Google pays Mozilla tens of millions a year to keep Firefox alive. But that comparison only takes us so far, because in this case, it's more like Google dishing out the money only on the condition that Firefox disables ad-blocking and sends telemetry to Google.

So, we have multiple, recent and ongoing indicators. We have motives and strategies which fit a type. Every signal beams in the same direction, and there are none which contradict it. Meta is coming.

And the ActivityPub protocol and major fediverse development projects are firmly under the control of facilitators who are smoothing the way. This is a blog post by one of the primary Mastodon developers, with a proposal to add in backend hooks for the algorithmic surveillance and telemetry collection demanded by the Facebook Mafia.

https://renchap.com/blog/post/evolving_mastodon_trust_and_safety/

7/20

#FreeFediverse #FediPact #DefederateMeta #Meta #Facebook #Threads #Prefiguration #DualPower #Fedifam #FacebookFediverse #Zuckerverse #FacebookMafia #Openwashing

A recent paper by @Mer__edith , @davidthewid and Sarah Myers West discusses the openwashing ploy utilized by Meta and other tech giants, in which "AI" and other exploitative technologies are obfuscated by a thin veneer of democratization.

Paper: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4543807
Fedi thread: https://mastodon.world/@Mer__edith/110905980596068726

@pluralistic riffs further on the openwashing concept: https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/18/openwashing/#you-keep-using-that-word-i-do-not-think-it-means-what-you-think-it-means

Meta currently has a big problem with regulators - particularly in the EU - demanding more interoperability from their social media operations. ActivityPub federation with their throwaway Threads side-project buys them a low-cost, low-risk figleaf. Perhaps we can term this particular variant "interop-washing"?

6/20

#FreeFediverse #FediPact #DefederateMeta #Meta #Facebook #Threads #Prefiguration #DualPower #Fedifam #Communalism #FacebookFediverse #Zuckerverse #Openwashing

Now to the question of motives. This has also been called into question. Why, after an early July Threads launch with over 100 million "signups" (all of which carried over from existing Instagram accounts), would Meta care about our puny little nothing of a network?

According to one analytics firm, that usage number had dwindled to 576,000 by early August.

https://www.similarweb.com/blog/insights/social-media-news/threads-first-month/

Suddenly the fedi, with an estimated DAU of 1.8 million, doesn't seem so puny. But beyond any question of numbers, there is a crystal clear benefit to federation, one which would fit a well-worn pattern for the Zuckerberg entity - openwashing.

5/20

#FreeFediverse #FediPact #DefederateMeta #Meta #Facebook #Threads #Prefiguration #DualPower #Fedifam #Communalism #FacebookFediverse #Zuckerverse #Openwashing

Good analysis of #openwashing in OpenAI and the key distinction between open and free software, by @pluralistic

"In the Big Tech internet, it's freedom for them, openness for us."

"A smart capitalist is someone who, sensing the outrage at a world run by 150 old white guys in boardrooms, proposes replacing half of them with women, queers, and people of color. This is a superficial maneuver, sure, but it's an incredibly effective one."

https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/18/openwashing/

On his pluralistic blog (No trackers, no ads. Black type, white background. Privacy policy: we don't collect or retain any data at all ever period.)

Cory Doctorow says Open AI is not "open," nor "artificial," and certainly not "intelligent."

https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/18/openwashing/#you-keep-using-that-word-i-do-not-think-it-means-what-you-think-it-means

#ai #capitalism #openwashing #floss #freesoftware

"As far as I know, Michelle Thorn, Mozilla’s Director of the Webmaker Program, was the first to define #openwashing in 2009: “Openwashing: to spin a product or company as open, although it is not."

It has happened before, and it will happen again.

https://opensource.com/business/14/12/openwashing-more-prevalent

#CreditWhereCreditIsDue

What's open and what's not in "open" #AI?
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4543807

"We find that the terms ‘open’ and ‘open source’ are used in confusing and diverse ways, often constituting more aspiration or marketing than technical descriptor, and frequently blending concepts from both #OpenSource software and #OpenScience. This complicates an already complex landscape, in which there is currently no agreed on definition of ‘open’ in the context of AI."

#Hype #OpenWashing #Terminology

A smart capitalist is someone who, sensing outrage at a world run by 150 old white guys in boardrooms, proposes replacing half of them with women, queers, and people of color. This is a superficial maneuver, sure, but it's an incredibly effective one.

In "Open (For Business): Big Tech, Concentrated Power, and the Political Economy of Open AI," a new working paper, @Mer__edith, @davidthewid and #SarahBMyers document a new kind of -washing: #openwashing:

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4543807

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Looks like another case of #openwashing #OpenwashingNominee @illiliti @raikas @danb https://posthog.com/ https://github.com/PostHog/posthog/blob/master/ee/LICENSE

@isotopp #openwashing #phoenix
Genau meine Rede, Danke, @kris! Ich rede mir dazu seit Jahren den Mund fusselig und hab mir viele "Freunde" gemacht. Innerhalb und außerhalb der OSS-Community. Zuletzt mit dem Phoenix-Dataport-Artikel im Linux-Magazin. Ein Lehrstück in Sachen OSS.
BTW: Das Thema NDA haste vergessen. Ganz neu: OSS Code kriegt der Anwender erst wenn er NDA unterschreibt. Und nur wenn er on-premise machen will/muss. Kannste Dir nicht ausdenken.

A hall of shame for those who deliberately abuse open-source term for marketing purposes:

https://codeberg.org/illiliti/openwashing

#openwashing #opensource

I receive e-mail, '#Codecov is now #OpenSource':

🙂

I read linked article:

🙁

Seriously?

#openwashing

@raikas thank you for speaking up! #openwashing is a slap in the face of all honest opensource contributors.
on top of that, i read a lot of advertising which may even be factually correct, but suggests that saas was #opensource . like when #aws boasts about their "support for opensource" or #honeycomb here: https://www.honeycomb.io/open-source-observability
neither services are open source, neither grant the four freedoms of free software https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html

I've seen so much open-washing in the past few months that when a corporation claims that their product is "open-source" on the front page of their website, I start with the assumption that it is false marketing until it gets disproven after I read through the license.

#OpenSource #OpenWashing

@nic221 Just to clarify for anyone seeing this: this is not an open source license, and would not be designated as one by authoritative organisations such as @osi. #OpenWashing

@kirschner @fsfe

> Die Regierung möchte nur noch Software verwendet, die sie frei verwenden, verstehen und verändern kann.

Ich wünschte unser @Bundesregierung käme auch mal zu diesem Schluss und hielte konsequent daran fest. Mit #PublicMoneyPublicCode können aktuelle und zukünftige Herausforderungen bewältigt werden. Mit #GAFAM, #OpenWashing und #VendorLockIn nicht!

It feels timely today to repost something I wrote almost a decade ago:

How Web 2.0 killed the Internet

https://ar.al/notes/how-web-2-0-killed-the-internet/

#web2 #PeopleFarming #SurveillanceCapitalism #open #apis #openWashing #developers #web #dev #google #facebook #twitter #SiliconValley #BigTech

@LibreTexts it's great you're trying, but you're leaving, quite unapologetically, closed/not-libre elements in your core offering. Realise that your claim of needing proprietary software to scale is unconvincing. Many fully libre solutions scale far beyond your requirements today. As you explain, it seems you're neither really #open nor #libre and your use of those words dilutes their meanings, which are all about principle. That, unfortunately, is #openwashing/#librewashing.