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I would not approve of having a Billionaire keynote a FOSS conference based on his business ventures. However, the author says that billionaires should: > inst
by einpoklum 2y ago
I would not approve of having a Billionaire keynote a FOSS conference based on his business ventures. However, the author says that billionaires should:
> instead buy our respect by, say, donating 250 million dollars to NLNet
> or the Sovereign Tech Fund
and then, he would have our respect? Hmm. I was later reminded of this phrase when reading author also laments how
> Dorsey sold Twitter to Elon Musk, selling the platform out to the far right
as if a Billionaire + BlackRock + Vanguard can "sell out" in any way, as if they are somehow an elightened elite which is supposed to hold the fort, while Billionaire #2 (Musk) is the evil-far-right we must defend the other Capitalists from.
- duxup 2y ago[flagged]
- phoronixrly 2y agoYou see, there's the crux -- if one's a billionaire, one is obviously hoarding money as in not using any significant amount of it to the benefit of society and definitely not to help open-source which is the topic of FOSDEM. Otherwise one would not be a billionaire. By this logic, billionaires are off-topic to FOSDEM. Thus what are billionaires doing speaking on FOSDEM?
- inemesitaffia 2y agoPeople rarely hoard their money as cash. The benefit to society is in the companies they hold
- phoronixrly 2y agoThe guy is famous for companies like Twitter and has a blockchain obsession... Pretty sure you can't just draw a conclusion he's a benefit to society. Def. a benefit to other billionaire shareholders tho. Still off-topic for FOSDEM.