SFLC Blog: Posts tagged “Online Privacy”[RSS]

Software patents and data mining are the major ecological issues confronting technologists today. Startups’ prevailing business models have predictable consequences that pollute the environment for innovation and endanger users. Companies that elect these models, either by design or by default, no longer have the luxury of ignoring their inherent ethical problems. We have to start designing for sustainability. If we don’t, we’re selling out the future of software and the rights of actual human beings.

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A (belated) blog post about the future of free software; making the movement more inclusive; and the Libre Planet Conference in Boston on May 19-21.

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