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After sitting through the first two minutes of hysterics, I started skipping around and the video is just the opening ceremony for FOSDEM. Probably see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46846970 (or https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46845103) instead.

We need to firmly reject these cancerous elements which try to poison open source with politics.

It will led to even more damage if left to fester.

No, it's not. Free/Libre software is, open source is just the corporate version of free/libre software minus politics.

Talk link with video:

Welcome to FOSDEM 2026 - Richard "RichiH" Hartmann

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/SFKNTZ-welcome_to_fos...

The guy seems very upset about something, but it's really unclear what exactly that is. He talks about a crossroads and the loss of democracy - is this about the EU re-aligning itself away from the US and towards China?