Re: [Dfey-nw-discuss] Facebook Group

[Tim Dobson]

Richard Thompson wrote:
> I think using Facebook to reach out is a great idea and have no issues
> against it, however, as a group, we may need to decide whether using
> Facebook contradicts DFEY politics.

Sure, this was why I asked, and didn't just go and create one :)

> Is the DFEY here to promote "free software" from a social perspective,
> where the user's freedom is the main focus, or are we here to promote
> "open source" from a technical perspective where the proprietary software
> model is simply sub-optimal to the open source software model.
>
> Or, I don't know, maybe we're here for a bit of both?

This is something that needs debating at some point, I am happy to do 
this now however, staying on topic for a second:

Considering Facebook is free software: 
http://developers.facebook.com/fbopen/

Should we instead be discussing the data portability aspects of Facebook?

or does facebook being free software solve it - after all gmail messes 
with it's user's data quite a lot too...

Tim

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