Oct 21, 2026, 12:14 PMfascists have been taking over open source projects for years, and torvalds going in on slop in the kernel with a “this isn’t a social warrior project” made them rally. it was a major victory for them. most of us have seen the fallout from that already, and it’s getting worse quickly.
and fosdem has bravely stood up and decided to be part of the problem
what good is fosdem
Oct 21, 2026, 12:26 PMfosdem decidedly won’t help you organize and figure out solutions for the current biggest problem in FOSS, by design
fosdem won’t even let you talk about init systems other than systemd and maybe sysvinit, because doing so would inconvenience the assholes in control
you can’t talk about major social problems, and you can’t talk about the technical artifacts of those major social problems
what good is fosdem