RIght, so I've been blocked by a couple career proprietary software developers who didn't take kindly to having their the 'goodness" of their life's work questioned... Sorta ironic to assert that "Software, it turns out, is not free regardless of license" and that it depends on grants and stuff... as recent arrivals - fleeing a festering trash-fire of a proprietary platform - in a global network of platforms that, far as I know, implicitly contradict that assertion. 1/2
Also, it must suck to go from a melee where one is perhaps renowned and certainly 'respectable' proprietary software developer, to a place where people question whether the work you've done is good for the world or even worthy of respect.
But that's what we - as an open community (and as a planetary society) - need to be doing far more.
If we're going to change as we must, we need to force people doing bad on the planet (and thinking they're good) to re-evaluate their assumptions.
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I am trying to do that with blog posts in relation to twitter etc if you are on twitter then you are the problem and not part of the solution. (exception are those on there to help report back what is going on, keep up that good work)
This is mostly aimed at places such as schools who claim a commitment to safeguarding but still use platforms such as Twitter, facebook etc
No problem, happy to help, it is really nice when we can exchange ideas like this.
@zleap I've tweaked the language of my original post to make it less hostile :)