Thank you for making my point @mangesh_x0 . Please read Kailash’s response in the thread that this thread is in response to. That FOSS United has its focus on certain things and not on certain things is not coming from the definition of FOSS like Kailash claims:
But it is coming from the biases and the priorities of the organization like you rightly pointed out.
I agree with a lot of what you’ve written. My framing of this thread is deliberately poised on exposing the lie that FOSS United cannot be for privacy or other rights of people because all of those are not under the realm of FOSS.
Please recognize that the politics of people driving an organization seeps into the organization no matter what the name or stated objective of the org is.
And also, if you feel that focusing only on use of FOSS and focusing only on hacking and tinkering, while ignoring other issues that are also part of FOSS is alright, then please recognize that that’s also coming from biases about what the org should be about — not from the definition of FOSS.
So, please don’t let people stifle efforts to include things in FOSS United’s agenda by talking about “Oh, but that’s not in the purview of FOSS”. Yes, it is in the purview of FOSS if we make it to be in the purview of FOSS. But if we want to play 4D chess and exclude certain things from the purview of FOSS, let us at least be clear about how that’s our personal interest.