Let's not let Open Source be stolen from us (Opinion)

In recent years, free and open source software has been under attack from all sides.. The problem is not only the proprietary software marketing companies and their monopolistic practices. In recent years, the exhaustion of community project developers, their lack of financing, the companies that benefit but do not contribute anything, the companies that only pour their resources into profitable projects, and those who want to use it for their own schedule.

Let's not let Open Source be stolen from us

This morning I was quietly looking at my timeline on Twitter when i meet a call Open Source Manifesto for Equality. That, like many other proposals that include the word equality it only intends to produce divisions without any criteria that justifies it beyond ideology.
I translate:

Let's open source
Open source manifesto for equality

Sorry?
I thought that with the 4 principles of free software and the definition of the Open Source Initiative, I was already open enough.

Let's see, let's see

A program is free software if users have the four essential freedoms:

• The freedom to run the program as desired, for any purpose
• The freedom to study how the program works, and change it to do what you want (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a necessary condition for this.
• The freedom to redistribute copies to help others.
• The freedom to distribute copies of its modified versions to third parties (freedom 3). This allows you to offer the entire community the opportunity to benefit from the modifications. Access to the source code is a necessary condition for this.

Open source definition
Introduction
Open source doesn't just mean access to source code. The terms of distribution of open source software must meet the following criteria:

1. Free redistribution: The license does not prevent either party from selling or giving away the software as part of an aggregate software distribution that contains programs from several different sources. The license will not require a royalty or other fee for such sale.
2. Source code: The program must include source code and must allow distribution in both source code and compiled form. Where some form of a product is not distributed with source code, there must be a well-publicized means of obtaining the source code for no more than a reasonable cost of reproduction, preferably by downloading it over the Internet free of charge. The source code should be the preferred way a programmer would modify the program. Deliberately obfuscated source code is not allowed. Intermediate forms such as the output of a preprocessor or translator are not allowed.
3. Derivative Works: The license must allow modifications and derivative works, and must allow their distribution under the same terms as the license of the original software.
4. Integrity of the author's source code: The license may restrict distribution of the source code in modified form only if the license permits the distribution of "patch files" with the source code for the purpose of modifying the program at compile time. The license must explicitly allow the distribution of software created from the modified source code. The license may require that derivative works bear a different name or version number from the original software.
5. Non-discrimination against individuals or groups: The license must not discriminate against any person or group of people.
   No discrimination against fields of endeavour: The license must not prevent anyone from using the program in a specific field of endeavour. For example, you may not restrict use of the Program in a business or for genetic research.
6. License Distribution: The rights attached to the program must apply to all those to whom the program is redistributed without requiring those parties to execute an additional license.
7. The license must not be specific to a productNote: The rights attached to the program should not be dependent on the program being part of a particular software distribution. If the program is extracted from that distribution and is used or distributed within the terms of the program's license, all parties to whom the program is redistributed must have the same rights as are granted along with the original software distribution.
8. The license must not restrict other software: The license must not impose restrictions on other software that is distributed together with the licensed software. For example, the license must not insist that all other programs distributed on the same medium must be open source software.
9. The license must be technologically neutral: No provision of the license may be based on any single technology or interface style.

More open than that? Just let's use a pick.

Owning a mobile phone and having access to the Internet can change lives.

Not at all, what changes lives is having access to a hospital or a school, the possibility of eating healthily and keeping warm, and that the protection of the law is guaranteed. Life is changed by a refrigerator or an oven, not a smartphone.

However, millions of women in developing countries are unable to take advantage of the mobile Internet. The main reasons for this are a lack of digital literacy and skills.

And of men too.

We can change that. With open and inclusive tools that facilitate access to important knowledge and practical information, developed by and for women.

Can any of you think of any non-macho reason why women cannot learn with tools developed by and without gender distinction?

Yet only 6% of all open source contributors worldwide are women, and even fewer in the Global South. It is time to act now.

Font? Yes, I have a silver one that an aunt gave my parents for their wedding.
Still, at some point someone is going to have to do some independent, uninterested research into why there are more men than women in computer-related careers.

Inclusion, empowerment and equality must be at the core of our efforts to ensure sustainable development.

It is seen that they did not find a way to include climate change, it is the only progressive cliché that they lacked.

To achieve this, we need a safe and beginner-friendly space for women to participate in open source projects that promote gender equality.

No, what they urgently need is professional help. That belief that all men are animals that do not control our sexual impulses and that women are incapable and cannot handle themselves in the real world, is undoubtedly a symptom of something.

And just to be clear, the function of open source is to promote open source.

That's why we're building Open Source for Equality, a movement that empowers women to empower women.

Let's open source open.

These types of initiatives that only follow fashionable causes not only do not benefit the free and open source software movement. In fact, they are in open contradiction with its principles.

I'd still argue against this kind of move, but I have to go do the dishes. Which my father and grandfather did all their lives. Since no one told my mother and grandmother that they needed help to be empowered, they did it on their own.