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key: kimin-ozgurlugu
title: "COVID-19, Free Software but who's freedom?"
id: 6E03tbU6L5w0IyjMi7yF
language: Turkish
format: keynote
tags:
  - freedom
speakers:
  - chris
draft: false
---
COVID-19, Free Software but who's freedom?
Free Software idea is almost 40 year old now. It succeeded, conquered the Earth. Does it solved the problems it aimed? Covid19 caused an environment made us question everything. In this situation how programmers can defend freedom?

Free software successes and benefits. A short story.

Where did success came from? How success turned into failure?

The problems that free software movement does/can not see. Gender, color, poverty, language, culture. Priorities forced by market.

How these problems are dealt in the future? A view from Free Software base.

In the days of Covid, new threats and opportunities. New solutions to new problems. Possibilities and impossibilities. Technology and humankind. Is technology became an enemy of humankind?

What to do?