180: Open Source Freedom and Technical Purity with Tobie Langel

02:34 - Tobie’s Superpower: Bridging tribes.

• Avoiding Labels

04:13 - Being a Co-Conspirator of Ethical Open Source

• Contributing to the Greater Good


• Finding Deeper Meaning in Open Source, Software, and Tech


• Privilege, Moral Obligation, and Responsibility


• Edmund Berkeley


• The Priority of Constituencies


• Technical Purity

12:41 - Open Source: Prioritizing Implementers Over End-Users

• Richard Stallman, “Four Freedoms”


• Everything is Software, Everywhere – Impact

17:19 - Developer Attachment to Technical Purity

• Privacy & Security & Safety (Spying on your spouse on Facebook example)


• Flavors of Safety (Zoom breaches and trust)
  
  
  • Physical Safety and Mental Safety
  
  
  • Freedom From Self-Censorship
  
  


• Surveillance and Tracking

34:54 - Open Source Practitioners Misguided Thinking When Building Software

• Software is Written by Privileged People


• Lack of Empathy for the End-User


• Comfort and Questioning


• Internationalization Issues

47:03 - Talking About These Issues – What gives us hope?

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