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Why journalist don't care about libre software (video in French) (m.youtube.com)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by F4stL4ne to c/programming
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French conference in the Php Forum 2023 in Paris.

Edit : So there are 3 main reasons :

  • journals are driven by their communities, so to attract more people they relay the informations interesting the largest group of people : so proprietary software news it is!
  • talking about libre software is often tied with political engagement. Journalist often don't want to be put on a political side or another, so talking about libre software is difficult.
  • most libre software project just don't communicate toward journals and journalists. And when they do they don't soften the speech enough and always blame journalists to much about their own use of proprietary software.
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

But the video title on YouTube is in French. I think you translated the title to English for the post

[–] F4stL4ne 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Because it's mostly an English instance.

[–] juli 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

How would you like it if, from now on, I'd make my post titles in Dutch and the post body in Swedish?

[–] F4stL4ne -1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I don't care because I don't feel attacked by someone speaking another language than my own.

If you want you can ask for moderation to delete the post, I won't mind.

I was thinking despite the content in French it might interested English people as well. I'm pretty sure being French isn't a requirement to speak French...