Tux Machines

Openwashing and Proprietary Software

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 08, 2022

Programming Leftovers

Tumbleweed Ends Continuous Streak, Keeps Rolling

OSI Executive Director to speak at Open Source Summit Europe [Ed: Microsoft and GitHub puppet, paid by them to push their proprietary agenda]

↺ OSI Executive Director to speak at Open Source Summit Europe

↺ paid by them to push their proprietary agenda

VICTORY: Slack Offers Retention Settings to Free Workspaces

↺ VICTORY: Slack Offers Retention Settings to Free Workspaces

> Since 2018, we have urged Slack to recognize its higher-risk users and take more steps to protect them. While Slack is intended for use in white-collar office environments, its free version has proven useful for abortion rights activists, get-out-the-vote phone banking organizers, unions, and other political organizing and activism activities.

Akka is moving away from Open Source

↺ Akka is moving away from Open Source

> According to today’s announcement, Lightbend is changing Akka’s licensing to “Business Source License (BSL)”. This is not an Open Source, or a Free Software license. This is a proprietary license.

How to download an MP4 from YouTube, every time

↺ How to download an MP4 from YouTube, every time

> I use yt-dlp to download videos off YouTube quite frequently. I'll use the videos as reference, and I often use it to grab the VOD for one of my livestreams, since there's no simpler way (I'm not going to dig through the bowel's of YouTube's UI to try to download one of my own videos...).

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