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2021-04-02 18:35 UTC
@eloquence@social.coop I'll accept that: one term confuses purpose, the other confuses culture. Both are kinda tainted.. I like the appeal of newer terms like "communal", "emancipatory", etcetera.
I suppose the fact that you and I, while generally agreeing on the better and worse aspects of the scene, can argue on the relative bad-ness of the two older terms is proof enough that it's time to move on from them both. But we had better move quickly to get out the new mission and branding because, as you say, people are going to fall off the better parts of Libre software and land in merely "open", or worse "shared source", or some other neolib rebranding.
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@eloquence@social.coop 2021-04-02 18:48
@seachaint@hackers.town I'm open to new terms, for sure -- especially if it's linked to an effort to build an organization that could be what the FSF never was. But I also don't mind consciously using the phrases we already have -- reclaiming and repurposing them with context, denying their originators the power to define their legacy.