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Free Software Foundation

Watch the LibrePlanet: Charting the Course videos on PeerTube: framatube.org/a/fsf/. Which talks do you like in particular? #PeerTube #LibrePlanet

Free Software Foundation

The hardware database h-node.org has many new distros and vendors added, including Trisquel, Parabola, Replicant and LibreCMC (distros), which you can check against various notebook vendors for #freesoftware compatibility. #hNode u.fsf.org/l0

Screenshot of h-node homepage.
Free Software Foundation

The maintainers of Dragora, a fully free distro that uses #LinuxLibre and #LibreSSL, have recently announced the latest release "dragora 3.0-beta2." Read the release notes and download it for yourself: u.fsf.org/3zk

Free Software Foundation

Is your school forcing you to use Zoom, Skype, or other proprietary videoconferencing software to learn or teach? Freedom is important to education. Read about freedom-respecting choices at u.fsf.org/311

Free Software Foundation

Have you always wanted to work at an organization that puts people and freedom at its center? The FSF is seeking a full-time deputy director: u.fsf.org/3vp

bgtlover

@fsf I've seen this post or something very similar about three times already, or at least that's how many I can remember. The fediverse doesn't appreciate reposting endlessly like that, it creates spam and generates a lot of redundant network traffic among the federated servers where the users which follow you are. I boosted a copy of this message once, probably twice, but I'm not boosting this one and now you know why.

Free Software Foundation

"If someone steals a CD containing a version of a GPL-covered program, does the GPL give the thief the right to redistribute that version?" The answer is somewhat complicated. Read the full answer at u.fsf.org/3kv #GNUGPLFAQ

A screenshot of the "FAQ about the GNU licenses" page
Free Software Foundation

"While code-generating AI systems like CoPilot have emerged as a powerful tool for professional developers, there are growing legal and ethical concerns around the development of these models." Mark your calendar for this upcoming online talk. More info: u.fsf.org/3z5

Free Software Foundation

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 fsf.org

Free Software Foundation

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: u.fsf.org/3z7 Congrats, #ThinkPenguin

Free Software Foundation

Read our latest update about the Freedom Ladder campaign, and how we plan to create introductory free software resources that keep people moving forward on their journey to freedom. u.fsf.org/3h9

A person in front of their computer greeting people in a teleconference that says, "Freedom Ladder Brainstorm" on the screen. The person is holding an "FSF 35" mug.
Free Software Foundation

Google's deprecation of #JPEGXL demonstrates its unjust amount of control over the web. Read our writeup here: u.fsf.org/3z8

Free Software Foundation

Need to know whether a piece of hardware is supported by free software? #hNode has you covered! Its search engine will help you verify #freesoftware compatibility. u.fsf.org/3uj

Screenshot of h-node's search page.
Free Software Foundation

Interested to learn more about the newly launched FSF board nomination and review process? This post details the nomination process along with a helpful chart of the procedure: u.fsf.org/3wa

Image of the top of the FSF Board Nomination and Review Process chart. It says, Nomination Process: FSF announces nomination dates. (Nominations are currently open until March 3rd, 2023.); Discussion Process: FSF associate members, staff, and voting members nominate potential nominees. [...] Read original page for full text.
Free Software Foundation

Assigning your copyright to the Free Software Foundation helps us defend the GPL and keep software free. #GNU Questions about copyright assignment? Check out the new FAQ: u.fsf.org/3f3

Free Software Foundation

Have you always wanted to work at an organization that puts people and freedom at its center? The FSF is seeking a full-time deputy director: u.fsf.org/3vp

Free Software Foundation

We love freedom 1, the freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does your computing as you wish. Boost this post to share this freedom!

Image of laptop with heart eyes that says, "I love free software" at the bottom and "It's free as in freedom: learn more at www.fsf.org/about/what-is-free-software"
Free Software Foundation

"While code-generating AI systems like CoPilot have emerged as a powerful tool for professional developers, there are growing legal and ethical concerns around the development of these models." Mark your calendar for this upcoming online talk. More info: u.fsf.org/3z5

Brian Reiter

@fsf @pluralistic CoPilot “legal and ethical concerns”such as cloning code from the training corpus without regard to attribution or license?

Free Software Foundation

Interested in helping us help others to make their first steps toward freedom? Collaborate with us on the freedom ladder, our new guide to help people take their first steps in software freedom: u.fsf.org/3f2 #userfreedom

A person in front of their computer greeting people in a teleconference that says, "Freedom Ladder Brainstorm" on the screen. The person is holding an "FSF 35" mug.
Free Software Foundation

"WorldVistA EHR is a slightly modified version of the Department of Veterans Affairs Electronic Health Record, VistA." Learn about WorldVistA EHR version of the Department of VA Electronic Health Record at an upcoming online #LibrePlanet talk: u.fsf.org/3z6

Free Software Foundation

#GNU Emacs is so much more than a text editor -- it's an entire workflow environment, loved by free software supporters around the world. Get the new GNU Emacs Manual, Nineteenth edition, for Emacs 27.2, at the GNU Press Shop: u.fsf.org/3ff

Image of "GNU Emacs Manual."
David Wilson

@fsf hey, maybe we'll get a printed manual for 28.1 by the time Emacs 29.1 comes out!

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