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Welcome to libre

A comm dedicated to the fight for free software with an anti-capitalist perspective.

The struggle for libre computing cannot be disentangled from other forms of socialist reform. One must be willing to reject proprietary software as fiercely as they would reject capitalism. Luckily, we are not alone.

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Resources

Free Software, Free Society provides an excellent primer in the origins and theory around free software and the GNU Project, the pioneers of the Free Software Movement.
Switch to GNU/Linux! If you're still using Windows in $CURRENT_YEAR, try a GNU/Linux distribution.

Rules

Be on topic: Posts should be about free software and other hacktivst struggles. Topics about general tech news should be in the technology comm or programming comm. That doesn't mean all posts have to be serious though, memes are welcome!
Avoid using misleading terms/speading misinformation: Here's a great article about what those words are. In short, try to avoid parroting common Techbro lingo and topics.
Avoid being confrontational: People are in different stages of liberating their computing, focus on informing rather than accusing. Debatebro nonsense is not tolerated.
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Artwork

Xenia was meant to be an alternative to Tux and was created (licensed under CC0) by Alan Mackey in 1996.
Comm icon (of Xenia the Linux mascot) was originally created by @ioletsgo
Comm banner is a close up of "Dorlotons Degooglisons" by David Revoy (CC-BY 4.0) for Framasoft

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Debian developer Antoine Le Gonidec resigns after option allowing corporate LLM use without disclosure wins vote (lists.debian.org)

submitted 1 week ago by Champoloo@hexbear.net to c/libre@hexbear.net

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[–] lurkerlady@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago (1 child)

And kinda as an aside, Debian and Fedora are imo the most important programming projects for communists to get involved in. Fedora I think has greater potential, atomic desktops allow a good communist developer to maintain standards easier and uplift ideologically aligned projects. Both are fairly strict about nonfree software, which is good for helping communists in AES countries get ahold of quality software as FOSS software is able to deftly dodge sanctions.

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[–] SootySootySoot@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 child)

Fedora

Red Hat explicitly partner with the US DoW, actively work with the Israel military, raise funds for BDS'd anti-Palestinian orgs, were caught bragging about their ability to "compress the kill-cycle" - the list goes on. I would specifically argue against any communist developer getting involved with it.

I say this as a Fedora user, but I actively rally against any support for it. I do worry about your awareness of these projects if you're promulgating it so.

Obviously fascists can use any FLOSS software, but Red Hat do effectively own Fedora in most regards and directly benefit from its improvement and uptake.

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[–] lurkerlady@hexbear.net 1 point 3 days ago*

Ok? but its entirely open source, any government will be able to scan it. linux has a lot of business and military applications that it can slot into. the whole ecosystem improves from any one developers contributions, and that absolutely could end up in israeli/dow hands no matter the distro

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