For Google, it is clearly a good deal: very small amount of money (for Google with hundreds of billions of dollars in yearly revenue, money which they make by their aggressively privacy-invading business) buys Google the appearence of being a friend to privacy and freedom. But Google is in reality a very dangerous company that is very bad for privacy and freedom. You should not be helping Google in that way.
I am asking you/GNOME to take a stand on principle.
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@cassidy thanks for clarifying that it's about money.
I personally donated to GNOME a few years ago, before I found out that they were funded by Google. Now I no longer donate to GNOME.
Of course, my contribution was tiny in comparison with Google's money. I donät know how many other donations like mine are lost.
But taking Google's money and showing Google''s name as an advisor means helping Google polish their image.
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@hund heh, ja det är lite fånigt att hacka upp i småbitar såhär.
Samtidigt finns någon slags fördel, i alla fall ibland, i att tvinga sig att hålla det kort. Eller så är det bara vad jag intalar mig själv för att inte behöva byta. 🙂
Menar du att gränsen är 5000 tecken på gotosocial.linuxkompis.se ?
@bragefuglseth oh I understand that, the advisory board only provide "advice".
But why would GNOME want advice from Google? It's like the sheep getting advice from the lion on how to stay safe.
Even if we assume that there is no real influence (like lobbyists have to influence over political decisions?) it makes GNOME look ridiculous especially when privacy issues are discussed. Zero credibility.
Do I need to explain why it looks bad for GNOME to be associated with Google?
@sonny GNOME first of all needs to kick out Google from its "Advisory Board", if GNOME wants any credibility regarding privacy issues. https://wiki.gnome.org/AdvisoryBoard
Having Google there looks really, really bad. It makes me sick thinking about the kind of "advice" Google can provide.
How does GNOME leadership not see how inappropriate that is?
Hi, great to see you here on mastodon!
I listened to many MoneroTalk episodes, appreciate them a lot, very interesting stuff.
I think it would be good to link to https://www.monerotalk.live/ here also, for those (like me) who want to avoid youtube.
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@davbjo bra förslag men jag tycker nog att 50 miljoner kundre räcka. Kan kompensera det med att man får ett ännu finare diplom, kanske med guldkant och ett personligt grattis och underskift av kungen eller Greta eller nån.
@samuel Karlstad University is on the list!
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