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# THESIS 7
## Fediverse as the end of Free/Libre and Open Source Software as we know it?
+---
+class: words, center, middle
+# Free/Libre vs Open Source
+
+???
Until now, pretty much all the internal debates around FLOSS licensing have
remained stuck at the level of comparing over and over again the difference between the free software's emphasis on user ethics versus the open source approach based on economics.
-One thing that everyone seems to agree is that whether motivated by ethics or economics, both free software and open source software share the belief that their position is superior to closed source and proprietary modes of production.
+---
+class: words, center, middle
+# Free/Libre vs Open Source
+
+???
+But one thing that everyone seems to agree is that whether motivated by ethics or economics, both free software and open source software share the belief that their position is superior to closed source and proprietary modes of production.
+
+---
+class: words, center, middle
+# Liberal foundation
+
+???
+They also both agree that the foundational liberal drive at the base of these ethical and economic perspectives should not be challenged or questionned.
+
+---
+class: words, center, middle
+# Liberal foundation
-They also both agree that the foundational liberal drive at the base of these ethical and economic perspectives should not be challenged or questioned.
+???
+That does not mean that there are no disagreement on the scope of such liberal foundation, as seen in discussion opposing copyleft licenses with permissive licenses.
-That does not mean that there are not disagreement on the scope of such liberal foundation, as seen in discussion opposing copyleft licenses with permissive licenses.
+---
+class: words, center, middle
+# Non-discriminatory software
+???
But further discussion have been inconceivable because one of the most important aspects of FLOSS is its non-discriminatory nature.
+--
+???
Anyone can use FLOSS for any purpose.
+---
+class: words, center, middle
+# Non-discriminatory software
+
+???
So far this has worked pretty well, and has benefited all sorts of groups, from for-profit tech companies to activists collectives.
+---
+class: words, center, middle
+# Considered harmful
+
+???
And yet here we are, in a context where many communities are increasingly wondering why the software they develop and publish under FLOSS licensing should end up used by groups that want to harm them or others.
+--
+???
This questionning did not happen over night.
+---
+class: words, center, middle
+# Patches and bandages
+
+???
In the recent years FLOSS has also been incresingly indirectly scrutinized with the ermergence of new forms of governance, creation of codes of conduct, and open discussion about the political colouring of source code.
+---
+class: words, center, middle
+# Patches and bandages
+
+???
This time however what is happening is going beyond isolated efforts, virtue signaling and theoretical examinations.
+---
+class: words, center, middle
+# Renewal of FLOSS critique
+
+???
Because of its diversity of users, developers, agendas, software, ideologies, the Fediverse is becoming the most important system where this new form of FLOSS critique gets articulated and tested.
+---
+class: words, center, middle
+# Renewal of FLOSS critique
+
+???
Because of all the reasons discussed in this presentation, this is where the traditional notions of FLOSS get confronted and modified by those who understand its use as part of a very concrete larger set of practices that challenge the status quo.
+---
+class: words, center, middle
+# Renewal of FLOSS critique
+
+???
It is a place where a constructive critique of FLOSS and a longing
for its re-imagination are the most vivid.
+---
+class: words, center, middle
+# Renewal of FLOSS critique
+
+???
With FLOSS culture increasingly feeling like an overly patched collection of irreconcilables from another era, it is urgent to revaluate many of its characteristics that have been taken for granted.
+---
+class: words, center, middle
+# Post-FLOSS?
+
+???
But of course, if we can accept the much needed sacrilege of thinking of free
software without free software, it still remains to be seen what could fill in
the void left by its absence.
