● 12.27.22

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●● Reality Check: Sirius ‘Open Source’ is Not Open Source Anymore (and Most of the Remaining Staff Turns Down Open Source)

Posted in Deception, Free/Libre Software at 3:59 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Summary: What’s left of Sirius ‘Open Source’ (about a handful of people working full-time) is mostly people who don’t care about “Open Source” (or Free software)

The following was in the official site of Sirius ‘Open Source’ before the company turned rogue:

Image: Open Source Engineering

Image: Sirius Support Banner

They took that down almost a decade ago. They’ve since hired people who have no clue what “Open Source” (let alone Free software) is, even for technical roles.

Image: We generally like to call ourselves 'Open Source'; but most of the staff you employ rejects open source

The people who currently run Sirius think that software freedom or digital security is “hobbyist” and “paranoid” (actual quote). Uploaded one month ago by Vladimir Berezhnev:

Sirius isn’t run by grow-ups.

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