From a84f0e656b47c4b2aeca46bf106b4d518420fca7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?benjamin=20melan=C3=A7on?= Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2020 21:46:58 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Add presentation stub for new take on free software, libresaas, and coop platforms --- free-software-and-cooperative-platforms/abstract.md | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) create mode 100644 free-software-and-cooperative-platforms/abstract.md diff --git a/free-software-and-cooperative-platforms/abstract.md b/free-software-and-cooperative-platforms/abstract.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d543a21 --- /dev/null +++ b/free-software-and-cooperative-platforms/abstract.md @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +# We're Better Together: Why Free Software needs cooperative hosting + +To reach its liberatory potential, the Free Software movement needs LibreSaaS and an embrace of cooperative principles. + +Free Software has always been first and foremost about an ethical imperative: to respect the freedom of people using the software and the right of all people to learn from the shared knowledge embedded in software. + +But this has not been enough, as shown both by the continued vitality of proprietary software and the prevalence of the amoral 'open source' framing in Free Software. + +One part of this is we need to accept a new, unambiguous name, such as Libre Software, or Liberatory Software. + +The bigger part is living up to such a new name by empracing the need to expand our ethical considerations for software to its real-world impacts.