A #ThankGNU! to Talk Liberation team and family, Thomas Hahn, and Uday Kale for helping the FSF to promote #FreeSoftware. To see a longer list of those who have helped us financially in our advocacy for #SoftwareFreedom and awareness, visit: https://u.fsf.org/45m
That's why I've long thought the most sustainable way for the #fediverse to grow is at the edges.
Every person who wants to lead their people out of the DataFarms knows what matters to their community, and what pain points or new possibilities might motivate them to shift to community-controlled tech. We know which services are needed, and what apps will appeal. We know how to support transition.
I wrote about this back in 2023;
https://bridgeseat.substack.com/p/into-the-woods-we-go
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A #ThankGNU! to Ron Hochsprung, Shashank Sabniveesu, Stephen Waite, and Steve Tuyizere for helping the FSF to promote #FreeSoftware. To see a longer list of those who have helped us financially in our advocacy for #SoftwareFreedom and awareness, visit: https://u.fsf.org/45m
𝗙𝗼𝗿 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗦𝗼𝗳𝘁𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝗿𝗴𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀!
DMA & Free Software: what Free Software organisations need to know
Online Q&A Session
24 March 2025
17: 30 CET
Registration: https://share.fsfe.org/apps/forms/s/riaMwgdMcgTnpHTTX3g92bkk
A #ThankGNU! to Pablo González Otero, René Genz, Peter Kunze, and Rogers-Tanner Family Fund for helping the FSF to promote #FreeSoftware. To see a longer list of those who have helped us financially in our advocacy for #SoftwareFreedom and awareness, visit: https://u.fsf.org/45m
A #ThankGNU! to Kevin Miller, Mark Boenke, Massimo Spadotto, and Morten Lind for helping the FSF to promote #FreeSoftware. To see a longer list of those who have helped us financially in our advocacy for #SoftwareFreedom and awareness, visit: https://u.fsf.org/45m
A #ThankGNU! to Jean-Louis Abraham, John Gilmore, John Rakestraw, and John Sullivan for helping the FSF to promote #FreeSoftware. To see a longer list of those who have helped us financially in our advocacy for #SoftwareFreedom and awareness, visit: https://u.fsf.org/45m
A #ThankGNU! to Jared Flatow, Jason Freidman, J Bernauer and K Cavalotti Fund, and Jean-Francois Blavier for helping the FSF to promote #FreeSoftware. To see a longer list of those who have helped us financially in our advocacy for #SoftwareFreedom and awareness, visit: https://u.fsf.org/45m
A #ThankGNU! to Fumitoshi Ukai, Franziska Heintel, Iñaki Arenaza, and Irene and Richard Van Slyke for helping the FSF to promote #FreeSoftware. To see a longer list of those who have helped us financially in our advocacy for #SoftwareFreedom and awareness, visit: https://u.fsf.org/45m
Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2025
We 
will be there with a booth and several events:
Talks about freedom in banking: the non-textual areas of the Fediverse ; and about openwashing
Two "Ada & Zangemann" movie screenings.
A community meeting at the FSFE booth
If you're attending the @clt_news 2025 be sure to stop by to learn about FSFE's current activities, get your copy of the Ada & Zangemann book, or get a new hoodie or shirt!
A #ThankGNU! to Colin Strasser, Dean Ujihara, Dock Williams, and Donald Craig for helping the FSF to promote #FreeSoftware. To see a longer list of those who have helped us financially in our advocacy for #SoftwareFreedom and awareness, visit: https://u.fsf.org/45m
FSFE March Newsletter!
In the last few weeks we published our first Legal Corner article and the recordings of our talks at #fosdem.
We were happy to see pictures from the #ilovefs Day celebrations and can't wait to meet you at CLT 2025!
We are organising an online Q&A session about the DMA and #freesoftware
The Ada & Zangemann movie is finally available in Spanish!
Find out more: https://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-202503.en.html
After previously pushing #Neo4j to correct their abuse of the #AGPL our sister organisation the @fsf now submitted an amicus brief to defend #softwarefreedom . The #GNU licenses were designed to empower users and it is important that we as #FreeSoftware community make sure this is understood.
https://www.fsf.org/news/fsf-submits-amicus-brief-in-neo4j-v-suhy
A #ThankGNU! to Aiden Kane, Alessandro Vesely, Andrew Hamon, and Bob Proulx for helping the FSF to promote #FreeSoftware. To see a longer list of those who have helped us financially in our advocacy for #SoftwareFreedom and awareness, visit: https://u.fsf.org/45m
The talk for which I got most positive feedback until now, seems to be "The core values of #SoftwareFreedom " which I first gave at #FOSDEM in 2020: https://archive.fosdem.org/2020/schedule/event/software_freedom/ which later resulted in this short animated video https://media.fsfe.org/w/p/9gYSyoEYggsqBExLWjRejL?playlistPosition=1
At the FSFE we started publishing a Legal Column aimed at offering basic legal guidance on various issues related to #freesoftware
In our first one, we discuss when a missing or deceased contributor affects your software project, and what options you have.
Check it here: https://fsfe.org/news/2025/news-20250217-01.en.html
Freedom marches on! Linux-libre 6.13.5-gnu, 6.12.17-gnu, and 6.6.80-gnu are here, bringing all the latest improvements - without the proprietary blobs! Every release is a win for user freedom, a step toward a world where you control your computing. Enjoy clean, libre kernels and celebrate software that respects you. Upgrade, spread the word, and keep hacking in freedom! 
https://www.fsfla.org/ikiwiki/selibre/linux-libre/ #LinuxLibre #FreeSoftware #SoftwareFreedom #GNU #Linux
A #ThankGNU! to Martin Jässing, Michal Toman, Simon Josefsson, and Terence O Gorman for helping the FSF to promote #FreeSoftware. To see a longer list of those who have helped us financially in our advocacy for #SoftwareFreedom and awareness, visit: https://u.fsf.org/45m
On 14 February we celebrated the 'I Love Free Software Day 2025' 
This year we marked this special day with:
19 events in 11 different European countries hundreds of people and many organisations that joined us in the Fediverse with a special "Thank you!" note for Free Software projects and contributors.
To all who joined us this time: "Thank you" for participating in this 15th edition of the "I Love Free Software Day" !
The #Debian project packages #Firefox as 'firefox-esr'.
(Please don't offer speculation, I'm asking for substantiated information) Will that package continue to package a #FreeSoftware Firefox browser, as it does today? How?
The odious "terms of use" that #MozillaCorp intends to erect as a barrier to #SoftwareFreedom, is incompatible with the DFSG. How will this be resolved? Cease to package Firefox in Debian? Strip any imposed barrier and continue the free Firefox package? Or what?
