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the.contrarian

@contrarian@mstdn.plus · il y a 4 jours

@linarphy
How about when the "corporation" is just the company the developers set up so they could earn a living while they worked on the free software?

@libreoffice @tdforg

linarphy

@linarphy · il y a 3 jours

@contrarian@mstdn.plus @libreoffice@fosstodon.org @tdforg@fosstodon.org

I’m for digital commons. Meaning that I believe in shared governance. By design, a company has to make money, and its governance is driven by this goal.

We already saw a lot of companies, which were exactly what you describe ("developers set up so they could earn a living while they worked on the free software"), taking a project lead and becoming basically project owner. From that, it’s easy to become Oracle/Apache/RedHat and mute community voice.

It’s easy to spit on "foundation administration", but a common healthy governance needs a structure. Maybe the current one is not the best, but we should work on allowing users to have an impact on the project, and I think it’s on the right track.

Meritocracy is shit. People allowed to decide software milestone/direction should also be people that don’t contribute at all to it.

LibreOffice

@libreoffice@fosstodon.org · il y a 5 jours

Our sense of meritocracy
A project that confuses meritocracy with the dominance of a single type of contributor fails to live up to its own values. And a project that bends to the interests of some contributors, at the expense of future generations, is a form of appropriation masked by the language of fairness.
Meritocracy is a complex, multifaceted concept that is worth grappling with in order to build something that future generations will be happy to inherit.
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/04/07/our-sense-of-meritocracy/
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TDF Community Blog

Our sense of meritocracy - TDF Community Blog

Meritocracy is one of the founding principles of the free and open-source software movement. It is also one of the most controversial terms, and the gap between the different meanings people attribute to it is, in some projects, a source of real and damaging conflict. Let us analyse the meaning of the word, because its potential ambiguity can significantly influence the debate and the various viewpoints. The theory of legitimacy based on the commit graph One version of meritocracy argues that governance authority should follow contribution, and that contribution is best measured through code. According to this view, the people who have contributed most to the code have the right to decide the project’s future, because they know the source code and have a personal stake in the most literal sense of the term. This is not an unreasonable position for a project in its early stages. Although it is also necessary to consider infrastructure, raise funds, and manage relations with the media and institutions, when the main challenge is technical in nature, when the community is small, and when the stakes are low, it makes sense that those doing most of the work should also make most of the

linarphy

@linarphy · il y a 4 jours

@libreoffice@fosstodon.org @tdforg@fosstodon.org

For the record: I firmly believe than meritocracy do not exist, but I agree with the substance of the text

the.contrarian

@contrarian@mstdn.plus · il y a 4 jours

@libreoffice @tdforg More innuendo and political spin to justify ejecting all the most significant contributors to TDF's success just to clear the way for forking Collabora Online. When you start respecting those people I will start respecting you.

linarphy

@linarphy · il y a 4 jours

@contrarian@mstdn.plus @libreoffice@fosstodon.org @tdforg@fosstodon.org

Kicking out corporation is always a good move #changemymind

#changemymind

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LibreOffice

@libreoffice@fosstodon.org · il y a 7 jours

https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/04/05/lets-put-an-end-to-the-speculation/

@libreoffice

TDF Community Blog

Let's put an end to the speculation - TDF Community Blog

Ideally, we would have preferred to avoid this post. However, the articles and comments published in response to Collabora’s and Michael Meeks’ biased posts compel us to provide this background information on the events that led to the current situation. Unfortunately, we have to start from the very beginning, but we’ll try to keep it brief. The launch of the LibreOffice project and The Document Foundation was handled with great enthusiasm by the founding group. They were driven by a noble goal, but also by a bit of healthy recklessness. After all, it was impossible to imagine what would happen after September 28, 2010, the date of the announcement. At the time, nobody could imagine that the companies that had supported OpenOffice.org until then would create a project to kill LibreOffice. Also, if the project were to be successful, it would require resources greater than those available, and above all, a deep management experience. Fortunately, the project grew quite rapidly. However, the founders’ different backgrounds and opinions were at the same time the reason for some bold decisions – many of which right – as well as a few mistakes, which are the root cause of some of the current

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Протест и сопротивление

@DemFighter@mas.to · il y a 6 jours

@libreoffice Good! Getting rid of corporate influence in your org is the way to go however painful it might seem.

Oracle promised to keep developing MySQL when they took over. Instead, MySQL has been slowly dying ever since because Oracle wants to sell their main product.

Red Hat promised to leave CentOS alone. They killed CentOS immediately. It's pretty tricky to be more evil than Oracle, but they managed somehow.

Corporate rot forced the Firefox team to abandon privacy guarantees.

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· il y a 4 jours

Données et smartphones : La Contre-Voie sur France 2 le 28 mars 2026 (Émission Bel et Bien)

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Arrêt sur images

@arretsurimages@mamot.fr · la semaine dernière

Arrêt sur images révèle la condamnation à de la prison avec sursis d'un grand reporter police/justice de BFMTV. Le journaliste a diffusé à l'antenne des images protégées par le secret professionnel, obtenues via une source magistrate ⤵️

https://www.arretsurimages.net/articles/bfm-un-journaliste-condamne-pour-recel-de-violation-du-secret-professionnel

BFM : un journaliste condamné pour "recel de violation du secret professionnel" - Par Pauline Bock | Arrêt sur images

En avril 2025, le grand reporter de BFMTV Vincent Vantighem a été condamné à quatre mois de prison avec sursis pour "recel de violation du secret professionnel". ASI a retrouvé les séquences concernées par cette condamnation. A BFMTV, la direction est au courant mais n'en a pas informé les équipes.

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ReseauCulture.fr

@cercle@reseauculture.fr · la semaine dernière

RE: https://reseauculture.fr/@conservatoirehjsc/116334135205177016

Ça se passe ce weekend dans le Haut-Jura. N'hésitez pas à relayer si vous êtes dans le coin. 🎵

Conservatoire HJSC

@conservatoirehjsc@reseauculture.fr · la semaine dernière

Samedi 4 avril à 11h au Conservatoire, venez écouter les élèves des classes de #flûte, #clarinette, #trombone, #percussions, #guitare, #violoncelle et #piano pour une heure musicale avant de partir en vacances !

Janik Besendorf

@besendorf@chaos.social · il y a 5 jours

RE: https://floss.social/@fdroidorg/116358345661473720

F-Droid is an App Store that does not allow developers to sign their own apps and now complains about Google enforcing developers developer identification.
If you want freedom then install GrapheneOS or any other AOSP distribution and install apks build by developers, use Obtainium, build them yourself or use Accrescent.

linarphy

@linarphy · il y a 4 jours

@besendorf@chaos.social

this is toxicity