Our 🇪🇺 politicians are currently debating the #InteroperableEuropeAct and at the FSFE we are keeping a close eye on it 🔍
Check our latests news on this important #EUpolicy issue for #SoftwareFreedom:
Protect developer freedom. Abolish software patents. Learn why software patents are unjust by checking out the new design of our #endsoftwarepatents initiative. https://u.fsf.org/3f-
Hello penguins! 🐧 Exciting gnus, 7 new versions of Linux-libre are out: 6.3.7-gnu, 6.1.33-gnu, 5.15.116-gnu, 5.10.183-gnu1, 5.4.246-gnu1, 4.19.285-gnu1 and 4.14.317-gnu1! Let's celebrate the continued commitment to software freedom and enjoy these new updates! Free the kernel, free your computing! #GNU#LinuxLibre#SoftwareFreedom
#FreeSoftware guarantees you 4⃣ freedoms: to use, understand, share and improve software.
These rights, that define #SoftwareFreedom, help support other fundamental freedoms like freedom of speech, press, and privacy
Software freedom means mean having the power to control the technology, not the other way around. Let's fight for our rights - https://www.fsf.org/#SoftwareFreedom
#KDEConnect is awesome! I was playing music on my desktop computer and my phone rings. KDE Connect automatically mutes the music when I answer the phone! When I finish the call and hang up, the music automatically starts playing again!
#Neuralink is one of the most dangerous pieces of proprietary malware yet conceived. Proprietary blobs on your computer are already bad enough, now imagine a Management Engine for your brain.
The @gnome Foundation is looking for an Executive Director. Please pass it on to people who might be interested in it and help an important organisation for #SoftwareFreedom to further fulfil their mission:
Amidst the digital landscape there lies a fundamental truth - the critical importance of software freedom. It's the very essence of individual autonomy, a beacon of hope for those seeking to control their computing and be in charge of their technological destiny. Let's cherish this immutable right and uphold it as a sacred tenet of our digital realm. #SoftwareFreedom#FreeSoftware
Today, software users have little recourse in cases where intermediaries fail to comply with GPL license requirements unless someone that holds the copyright is willing to enforce the license.
Unfortunately, there are cases where companies have adopted the GPL for their corporate interests, rather than thinking first about protecting rights for software users.
You aren't just using software to do your computing, you're using software to live your life. The growing importance of #SoftwareFreedom cannot be understated.
In a pan-European survey,, end-users highlight several barriers to #RouterFreedom, including lack of choice, vendor lock-in and the promotion of devices running only proprietary software
#Zoom: What's yours is mine, and what's mine is my mine too.
Zoom is a proprietary service. You can't download the Zoom software, set up your own Zoom server and host a Zoom conference. Their software is theirs. Yet they use dozens of software packages developed by the Free Software community to run their service:
"... while you boldly [re-]create the Shared Source Initiative, ask yourself why Microsoft quietly walked away from it, and gradually learned to engage in software collaboration under licenses that are OSI approved, and ultimately free software licenses."
Hey everyone! Freedo here to let you know that new versions of Linux-libre are out! Get 6.3.1-gnu, 6.2.14-gnu, 6.1.27-gnu, or 5.15.110-gnu now and experience the freedom to control your computing. #Linuxlibre#SoftwareFreedom
Common sense/medium rare take: treating people like traitors for signing up for Blue Sky will drive folks away from the forms of online community you're advancing. I won't be signing up to #BlueSky because its obviously going to be a milquetoast website — at best Twitter 2, the persistence of an idea beyond its very real & clear death — a literal zombie community that preys on the minds of the living for our lack of ability to imagine, organize and build a true alternative that can appeal to the masses while upholding the principals of #SoftwareFreedom. But lashing out at people for their lack of loyalty to a platform only signals that yours in decay.
#Mastodon is not the end all/be all, as I'm sure most of my mutuals agree. That its had a hard time appealing to folks beyond hacker scenes is both a sign of its weakness and its strength. Its strength is that we have probably the most exciting space of discourse among hackers since #usenet, along with a reasonably generic protocol to build on, #activitypub. But I'm sure we all want it to grow, including a wide range of voices from all walks of life & cultures. So we all have to be thinking about how to work together and try new things in order to grow, and I'm not convinced affirming loyalty to a platform is conducive to that sort of growth.
"I believe open-source is a fundamental human right. As technology takes up more and more of our lives, it’s just as important as freedom of speech, freedom of religion, or any other freedom. It’s important to have the freedom to see how our software works and to modify it."
#MattMullenweg, CEO of Automattic, stewards of WordPress and Tumblr
Big thank you again to the #FossNorth organisers Johan Thelin and Henrik Sandklef who did all the work as volunteers 👏👏👏 It was a great conferences for #SoftwareFreedom.
Also a big thank you all the speakers, the participants, and to my colleagues at the @fsfe for co-organising the Palmstedt track!
The #fsfe is a partner of the 🇪🇺 @EC_NGI consortium, which aims to build a more resilient, trustworthy and open Internet that empowers end users to control technology 💪🏽