xianc78 @xianc78@gameliberty.club

Eric S Raymond, one of the co-founders of the open-source movement, made a tweet a few days ago saying that you can still be a right-libertarian (including a full-blown ancap) while also being against the mass hiring of H1B immigrants. He noticed how bad it was getting back when he was in his 20s and 30s, and it is even worse today. He actually emphasizes with the young tech graduates, despite being a boomer. He also states that there is more to right-libertarianism than just the monetary aspect.

I generally agree with him on this. Honestly, I would argue that conservatives (especially neocons) are bigger corporate boot-lickers than right-libertarians ever claim to be. They are the ones who defend companies that benefit from the state (especially the military industrial complex), don't care that their politicians have been bought out by billionaires, and defend policies that hurt smaller businesses like "intellectual property" laws. I also hear them worship the GDP more than right-libertarians (including ancaps) who really just care more about personal and economic freedom more than anything.

Of course, the argument comes, "how do you deal with the problem without state intervention?" And I wish ESR would elaborate on this. I think the important thing to note is that even if a company decided that they would probably get more respect (and by proxy, customers) by advertising that they don't hire H1Bs or immigrants in general, they can't. They CAN refuse to hire H1Bs, but they legally cannot make discriminatory claims in job postings like saying "US Citizens Only". This is what makes boycotts and finding companies that don't prefer 80% H1B workers difficult in this situation. So yeah, the state makes it hard to support companies that actually want to hire (White) American workers.

@PurpCat Drew DeVault ignores the fact that FOSDEM always had events by not-so-good companies like Canonical, Mozilla, Red Hat, and even companies that also make proprietary software like Google and Oracle.

Judging from the blog post. It's mostly because the project Dorsey is showing is blockchain-based and you know how much Drew DeVault hates anything that has to do with crypto or blockchain in general.

@bonkmaykr I think he attends there every year. It's the biggest FOSS convention in Europe as far as I know, but it was always open-source first, free software second. It was originally called OSDEM until Stallman asked them to change it. They always included "ethically questionable" companies like RedHat and Element in the convention.

If this was really a problem for him he would go to actual free software conventions like Libre Planet, but that is hosted in America, the country that he left because he hates it so much, and it's hosted by the evil Richard Stallman.

It looks like Drew DeVault came out of hiding and announced his intention to start a sit-in during Jack Dorsey's event at FOSDEM. Sure Dorsey most likely doesn't have our best interests in the FOSS community, but I don't know why he simply doesn't just advocate boycotting the event or the entire convention. You guys were already suggesting that with an event by the president of the OpenMandriva Association after Bryan Lunduke promoted him.

But I rather have these guys do the sit-in if it means that they will forget about the OpenMandriva drama and leave the foundation's president alone.

https://drewdevault.com/2025/01/16/2025-01-16-No-Billionares-at-FOSDEM-please.html