A follow up to this thread: https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/@lightweight/117554943841527164 - we need to break people idea that 'someone being paid to say something' is inherently credible.. or that it's more credible than, say, the view of an unpaid volunteer from within the community.
The latter often have far more knowledge and far better incentives.
If we could unseat that widespread misconception, the world would be a much much better place.
In other news, I'm increasingly compelled by lived experience groups.
The EU is already starting to show us what it means when governments get behind *libre* community (not *proprietary*) software. It gets really good, really quickly. Because *all the building blocks are there, and the expertise to use them - like pouring water on barren soil. And we, in Aotearoa can benefit in good conscience from the EU's investment in saving its own bacon. We too can use that world-class software to replace Big Tech at a much lower cost & without loss of sovereignty.
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