US taxpayers: Call on the IRS to provide libre tax-filing software! Read the FSF's latest article, and learn how you can participate: https://u.fsf.org/3zd
US taxpayers: Call on the IRS to provide libre tax-filing software! Read the FSF's latest article, and learn how you can participate: https://u.fsf.org/3zd We ordered 15,000 Emacs Logo stickers so you don't have to. Order a pack of 10 at https://u.fsf.org/2lg #Emacs Similar to Apple, Kindle's software has always been proprietary... [I]f you buy a Kindle today, you have very little hope of actually being able to customize it without resorting to "breaking in" through hardware modification. Read more: https://u.fsf.org/3zi Trisquel is a beautiful, fully free distribution of GNU/Linux. We also have Parabola and many other free GNU/Linux distributions -- all which respect your rights. Check out our list at: https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html #GNU #Linux #freesoftware The global community of users should be directing how the web develops, not a single corporate monopoly. Read how Google's deprecation of #JPEGXL highlights this worrying trend: https://u.fsf.org/3z9 Assigning your copyright to the FSF helps defend the GPL and keep software free. Thanks to Sean Farley, Eli Qian, Roman Rudakov, and Andrea Giovanni Monaco for assigning their copyright to the FSF! #GNU #Emacs Learn more at https://u.fsf.org/3ht #CopyrightAssignments FerretDB announced its release 1.0 and thereby brings MongoDB database workloads back to their free software roots. Read more at https://u.fsf.org/3za Assigning your copyright to the FSF helps defend the GPL and keep software free. Thanks to Jacob First, Joel Pettersson, Peter Stiernström, and Wilhelm Hugo Kirschbaum for assigning their copyright to the FSF! #GNU #Emacs More: https://u.fsf.org/3ht #CopyrightAssignments Do you have the passion and skill to be the next licensing and compliance manager for the FSF? Read more about this full-time position: https://u.fsf.org/3l0 #helpwanted "What if my school might want to make my program into its own proprietary software product?" Read the suggestion on our #GNUGPLFAQ https://u.fsf.org/3un @fsf There are many more reasons that a university may restrict the release of software as free or open source than raising funds. Grants and other funders, research partners, exisiting university or collaborators' IP, employee status, student status, etc. all can limit licensing. The above are beyond negotiation, so best understand any restrictions before engaging in software development. Sadly, depending on your role, you may need to sacrifice your ideals to gain your degree. Watch the LibrePlanet: Charting the Course videos on PeerTube: https://framatube.org/a/fsf/. Which talks do you like in particular? #PeerTube #LibrePlanet Yes, the Free Software Foundation and Defective by Design are on Mastodon! Visit us at https://hostux.social/@fsf and https://hostux.social/@endDRM and please help us spread the word by boosting this post! #Federated The FSF recently awarded its Respects Your Freedom (RYF) certification to the Free Software Gigabit Mini VPN Router (TPE-R1400) from ThinkPenguin, Inc. Read the full announcement and check out the device: https://u.fsf.org/3z7 Congrats, #ThinkPenguin #DRM isn't just an annoyance -- it's a violation of your right to use the items you own as you see fit. Learn more about our Defective by Design campaign at http://defectivebydesign.org, and follow our campaign account at @endDRM US taxpayers: Call on the IRS to provide libre tax-filing software! Read the FSF's latest article, and learn how you can participate: https://u.fsf.org/3zd "The licenses for most software and other practical works are designed to take away your freedom to share and change the works. By contrast, the GNU General Public License is intended to guarantee your freedom [...]" Read the full answer: https://u.fsf.org/3kz #GNUGPLFAQ The FSF recently awarded its Respects Your Freedom (RYF) certification to the Free Software Gigabit Mini VPN Router (TPE-R1400) from ThinkPenguin, Inc. Read the full announcement and check out the device: https://u.fsf.org/3z7 Congrats, #ThinkPenguin We love free software. With much thanks to the talented @SachaChua @sachac for illustrating the reasons. See https://www.sachachua.com/blog/ for emacs news and more! #FreeSoftware "I think higher education has normalized a culture of software oppression." Listen to Erin Rose Glass's (@erinroseglass) full keynote "Education and the future of software freedom" at https://media.libreplanet.org/ A testimonial from a new FSF member: "The world, especially in its current state needs advocacy of the Free Software principles more than ever. I joined to help advocate that cause." Support #FreeSoftware https://fsf.org |