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#openwashing

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Reverend Elvis

Open washing for the weak. – AHOY! European Social Web Day

Heute ist in Hamburg AHOY! - Das Treffen der digital Rückständigen.

Großes Mitleid erzeugt schon die Website. ahoy.eu/europe Man sieht, es ist von Menschen, die ganz toll modern sind (und das sogar nach Ende der Postmoderne) und ihre Unfähigkeit gern an Menschen, die noch unfähiger sind, verkaufen wollen. Ein zu allen Zeiten gewinnbringendes Geschäftsmodell.

Die Workshops, die man selbst dann bezahlen muss, wenn man sie von zu Hause anschauen will, werden von Bluesky Mitarbeitern gehalten und greifen heiße Eisen an. Themen wie "Wie binde ich Videos in Bluesky ein" (Pro Tipp: Ctrl V) oder "Muss ich mir wirklich immer nach dem Kacken den Hintern abwischen?" lassen Großes erahnen.

Ob Bluesky wirklich eine europäische Alternative zu Bluesky und Co ist, bleibt abzuwarten (Pro Tipp: Nein). Ich kann es kaum erwarten, dass europäische Werte und (wichtig!!!) Regulationen einsetzen, was soll da schiefgehen? Seit 5:45 wird nun zurückgeschossen.

word.undead-network.de/2025/04
#activitypub #ahoy #bluesky #europa #openwashing #SocialNetwork

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Johannes Näder

Es war toll für mich, dieses Jahr mit einem großartigen Team der @fsfe wieder bei den Chemnitzer Linux-Tagen dabei zu sein!

Die #CLT haben wieder mit einem vielfältigen Programm aufgewartet - zu oft musste ich mich zwischen zwei spannenden Beiträgen entscheiden. Zum Glück gibt es Aufzeichnungen! (Danke @clt_news und @c3voc !)

Meinen Talk zu #Openwashing gibt's hier:
media.fsfe.org/w/uDjX21M66BHiC

Lasst uns genauer hinschauen und Openwashing entlarven!

PeerTubeCLT25: Openwashing ans Licht!By FSFE Main Channel
#FreieSofware#OpenSource#PublicCode
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Jordan Maris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 #NAFO

It's extremely unfortunate that a small minority in the #OpenSource community who have previously spoken very favourably about Meta's #Llama, or even gone as far as labelling it as Open Source, are claiming the OSI's OSAID is what enabled #Meta's #Openwashing.

Meta's Open washing predates the OSAID, and OSI have been fighting it for almost two years now! The OSAID is the best tool to win that fight.

opensource.org/blog/metas-llam

Open Source InitiativeMeta’s LLaMa license is still not Open SourceAt a time when Meta is trying to redefine Open Source for their own benefit and at the expense of our freedom, we call on the whole Open Source community to unite and call out Meta’s open washing.
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petersuber

@kdnyhan @mike
Yes. I called this #openwashing because it used the halo of openness or transparency to block regulations that would protect the environment and climate. (Medical studies on the harms of airborne pollution could not fully open their data, for reasons of medical privacy.) Here are the #OATP items I tagged with that sort of openwashing during the first #Trump administration.
tagteam.harvard.edu/hubs/oatp/

But note that #Project2025 calls for both (1) this older kind of #EPA openwashing and (2) direct, unembargoed #OpenAccess (or #PublicAccess) to EPA-funded research, echoing the Biden-era #NelsonMemo. See p 439: "Add teeth to long-standing executive orders, memoranda, recommendations, and other policies to require that EPA regulations are based on transparent, reproducible science as well as that the data and publications resulting from taxpayer-funded activities are made immediately available to the public."
static.project2025.org/2025_Ma

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petersuber

I'm starting a #Mastodon thread on the new #Trump administration's actions and positions on #OpenAccess to research.

I posted frequently about the actions of his first administration. But I did it on #Twitter / #X, which I no longer use.

Also see my separate Mastodon thread on outside efforts to capture and preserve research and data that the admin has taken down or might take down.
fediscience.org/@petersuber/11

Also see this wiki page where I'm collecting my old Twitter posts on his first term and my new Mastodon posts on his second term.
cyber.harvard.edu/hoap/The_Tru

For updates, watch this space.

FediScience.orgpetersuber (@petersuber@fediscience.org)Update. "With the recent announcement that numerous datasets — such as those from #NOAA — are scheduled for decommissioning in May, #PANGAEA has opened its archive to help safeguard these valuable resources. If you become aware of any endangered datasets, please don't hesitate to contact us. PANGAEA data!" https://pangaea.de/ #Censorship #DefendResearch #OpenData #Preservation #Takedowns #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
#OpenWashing#OSTP#ScholComm
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Giacomo Tesio
@petersuber@fediscience.org

Interesting collection of facts, but I think most of the apparent contraddictions disappear if you consider #copyright as a tool and culture/knowledge as the good contended in the war.

You can easily place all actors in this war along a line between two poles: those who want to maximize public elaboration of knowledge/culture (through the public discourse and content exchange) and those who want seize/control the knowledge/culture available (controlling the public discourse and content exchange).

This way you can see how both #BigTech and the publishing industry are on the same side, share the same values and are more then happy to sign contracts with each other, as long as they can raise the respective profits.

On the other side you see developers who adopt #copyleft (that is based on copyright) and people serious on moral rights even when they adopt permissive licenses, together with people who just want to read books or see films for free.

To both groups copyright is a tool or an issue depending on the particular goal they are pursuing in a given moment.

#Meta want to control knowledge and culture, so it downplay copyright when it train its #AI models, but it enforce it when it release them under non-competition license agreements.

A hacker might workaround a flawed #DRM protection while releasing the code under a strong copyleft.

A teacher might avoid copyrighted materials while teching to students the skills required to workaround DRM.

Tons of combinations of interests exist that make people and organizations moving between these poles.

Yet all gravitate along these two poles.

With this framing another apparent issue becomes simple to explain: all corporations want to retain as much control as possible over their own cultural artifacts (been them software, contents or whatever) while they are eagger to use/abuse those of everybody else (including competitors).

Framing the war just in term of copyright maximalism/minimalism hide such important detail that in turn explain why many creators react to corporate abuse requiring stricter copyright protection, stricter moral rights and so on.

It can also explain why #Google, #Microsoft, #Meta and #Amazon sponsor #OSI (#OpenSource Initiative who recently released the #OpenWashing #AI definition #OSAID) and #CreativeCommons.

In short, its not a war about copyright: copyright is just a weapon in that war, just like crawlers or suggestion algorithms in social media.

It's a war for (or against) the control of human culture and knowledge.

@mcp@poliversity.it
@technollama@bird.makeup
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Giacomo Tesio
@petersuber@fediscience.org

Interesting collection of facts, but I think most of the apparent contraddictions disappear if you consider #copyright as a tool and culture/knowledge as the good contended in the war.

You can easily place all actors in this war along a line between two poles: those who want to maximize public elaboration of knowledge/culture (through the public discourse and content exchange) and those who want seize/control the knowledge/culture available (controlling the public discourse and content exchange).

This way you can see how both #BigTech and the publishing industry are on the same side, share the same values and are more then happy to sign contracts with each other, as long as they can raise the respective profits.

On the other side you see developers who adopt #copyleft (that is based on copyright) and people serious on moral rights even when they adopt permissive licenses, together with people who just want to read books or see films for free.

To both groups copyright is a tool or an issue depending on the particular goal they are pursuing in a given moment.

#Meta want to control knowledge and culture, so it downplay copyright when it train its #AI models, but it enforce it when it release them under non-competition license agreements.

A hacker might workaround a flawed #DRM protection while releasing the code under a strong copyleft.

A teacher might avoid copyrighted materials while teching to students the skills required to workaround DRM.

Tons of combinations of interests exist that make people and organizations moving between these poles.

Yet all gravitate along these two poles.

With this framing another apparent issue becomes simple to explain: all corporations want to retain as much control as possible over their own cultural artifacts (been them software, contents or whatever) while they are eagger to use/abuse those of everybody else (including competitors).

Framing the war just in term of copyright maximalism/minimalism hide such important detail that in turn explain why many creators react to corporate abuse requiring stricter copyright protection, stricter moral rights and so on.

It can also explain why #Google, #Microsoft, #Meta and #Amazon sponsor #OSI (#OpenSource Initiative who recently released the #OpenWashing #AI definition #OSAID) and #CreativeCommons.

In short, its not a war about copyright: copyright is just a weapon in that war, just like crawlers or suggestion algorithms in social media.

It's a war for (or against) the control of human culture and knowledge.

@technollama@bird.makeup @mcp@poliversity.it
#copyright#bigtech#copyleft
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Bundesverband Smart City e.V.

Am 4.12. fand im #Bundestag eine Expert:innen-Anhörung des #Digitalausschuss unter Leitung unseres Beiratsmitglieds @TabeaRoessner zum Thema „Open Source“ statt.

Es wurde erneut, u.a. von der @fsfe untermauert, dass es sich bei echter #OSS um #FreieSoftware handelt, welche alle 4 Freiheiten gewährt: Verwenden - Verstehen - Verbeiten - Verbessern.

4 Freiheiten = #OpenSource
<4 Freiheiten = #OpenWashing

Weiterlesen: bundesverband-smart-city.org/o

#BundesverbandSmartCity
#BVSCnet
#digitaleKommune

echte #OSS = #FreieSoftware, welche alle 4 Freiheiten gewährt: Verwenden - Verstehen - Verbeiten - Verbessern. 4 Freiheiten = #OpenSource <4 Freiheiten = #OpenWashing
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Strypey

More openwashing from the timebank software world.

"After Edgar's passing in 2021, TimeBanks.Org sought to replace their outdated timebanking software, which had fallen behind in adopting modern digital standards. They searched worldwide for a technology partner and found Made Open."

cothrive.timebanks.org/tbo

Ah! They realised their mistake with CommunityWeaver 3 and went back to commissioning software from a company committed to. Open Source. Nope.

(1/2)

cothrive.timebanks.orgTimeBanks.Org - Made OpenYou need to select a meta description
#openwashing#MadeOpen#TimeBanking
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