Björn Schießle 🌍 🇪🇺 @bjoern@mastodon.social

"What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make." - Jane Goodall

Really nice offering. Get your own (full managed) #Matrix server for just $1.50 per month and per active user. https://medium.com/@RiotChat/introducing-modular-awesome-hosting-for-riot-matrix-665a7a0c616

This Tuesday I gave a talk about the history and philosophy of #FreeSoftware at the HTW #Dresden. Here you can find a quick summary and of course the slides https://www.schiessle.org/articles/2018/10/17/eine-einf%C3%BChrung-in-freie-software/ (de) #fsfe

Jedesmal wenn ich in #Sachsen unterwegs bin, sehe ich so viele freundliche Menschen, schöne Städte & Landschaften. Lasst euch euer schönes Land nicht von rechten Hetzern kaputt machen die außer Hass nichts zu bieten haben. Ihr habt was besseres verdient. #Politik #noAFD

Auf Wiedersehen Dresden! Es war sehr schön hier mit vielen spannenden Diskussionen zu #FreieSoftware an der HTW. Danke auch an @schmittlauch für dir gute Organisation!

On the way to #Dresden for the "Ringvorlesung #FreieSoftware und #FreiesWissen als Beruf" to talk about Free Software https://wiki.fsfw-dresden.de/doku.php/ringvorlesung/ws2018 #fsfe 🚆

#Mastodon celebrates it's two year anniversary. It is really impressive what all the people together with @Gargron achieved. Not only with Mastodon as such but also the underlaying technology #ActivityPub and the rich ecosystem of apps and tool around it. Thanks to all the people who made it happen! I'm sure the free, decentralized and open web has a bright future! #fediverse https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2018/10/mastodons-2-year-anniversary/

Bist du dir noch nicht sicher wen du bei der Anstehenden Landtagswahl in #Hessen wählen willst? Vielleicht gibt dir der Digital-o-Mat ein paar Anhaltspunkte https://hessen.digital-o-mat.de #FreieSoftware #FreieBildung #OER #Netzpolitik #Politik #ltwhe18

Interesting read on why #Microsoft joined #OIN https://www.yahoo.com/news/microsoft-may-relinquishing-billions-android-patent-royalties-141047213.html TL;DR Microsoft is in a transition from a product company to a service company. With Azure they earn a lot of money these days with people running Free Software on their cloud platform. Which means that the threat of software patent interferes with the growth of their services business these days.

Wow, when I heard the rumors last week I bet that this will not going to happen. But now #Microsoft really surprised me by joining the Open Invention Network #OIN. This also means that they have to stop using #patents against #Android! https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-open-sources-its-entire-patent-portfolio

Bist du dir noch nicht sicher wen du bei der Anstehenden Landtagswahl in #Bayern wählen willst? Vielleicht gibt dir der Digital-o-Mat ein paar Anhaltspunkte https://bayern.digital-o-mat.de #FreieSoftware #FreieBildung #OER #Netzpolitik #Politik #ltwby18

Do you want to discuss #FreeSoftware, #OpenSource, #FLOSS, #FOSS topics but not necessarily on a mailing lists? Maybe the Discourse instance run by #FSFE is something you want to try? Help us to evaluate if this is a useful service for our community https://community.fsfe.org/

#Debian and #Fedora developers join forces to fork the #Redis modules which where made proprietary a few weeks ago by applying the #CommonsClause https://www.zdnet.com/google-amp/article/redis-labs-and-common-clause-attacked-where-it-hurts-with-open-source-code/ #GoodFORM #FreeSoftware