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1. ✨Nora Tindall (tindall@cybre.space)'s status on Sunday, 09-Jan-2022 08:10:03 UTC ✨Nora Tindall

   If you make a piece of software, and people are required to use that piece of software in order to, say, pay for their housing or groceries or pay back a loan, you are on the hook to make sure that software works for _every single person_ who needs to use it.

   All of them.

   Every screen reader user. Every person with muscle issues who can't use a mouse. Everyone who doesn't speak English. Everyone with three first names, or no last name. Everyone who is Irish or Jewish and has a ' in their name. Everyone with slow internet.

   EVERY person.

   "Oh we don't have the resources to do that!" Great. Then you don't have the resources to make and sell that kind of software. Pack up and go home.

   • Gerrit Niezen (gendor@merveilles.town)'s status on Sunday, 09-Jan-2022 08:10:02 UTC Gerrit Niezen

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     @tindall I'm not saying you're wrong, but this sounds like only large corporations should be allowed to make software?

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   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 09-Jan-2022 20:59:28 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     • Gerrit Niezen
     @tindall @gendor Ah, so that's the "and people are required to use that piece of software" condition.
     
     So software can be built and deployed in an incremental fashion, but it's the people pushing it on other people, the people who ultimately make the decisions, who need to make sure nobody is left behind.
   • ✨Nora Tindall (tindall@cybre.space)'s status on Sunday, 09-Jan-2022 20:59:29 UTC ✨Nora Tindall

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     • Gerrit Niezen

     @gendor no, it means that people shouldn't be required to use proprietary software to access vital things. There always needs to be a cash, phone, and/or in-person way to handle necessary life stuff.