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Taxpayer money should fund public goods.

When governments invest in software, it should be #FreeSoftware: software that gives the rights to use, understand, adapt, and share.

Sign the open letter to support this principle:
https://publiccode.eu

A #ThankGNU! to Adarsh Melethil and Arthur Gleckler 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 Terrance Druggan and Yuchen Pei 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

Is "disable" the same as "uninstall"? We do not believe it. Google does.

Under the DMA, the FSFE with a coalition of civil-society organisations prompts the @EUCommission to open proceedings to investigate Alphabet's (#Google) regarding the uninstallation of pre-installed apps in Android.

Uninstalling is completely removing the app, not just disabling it! This is key for #DeviceNeutrality!

https://edri.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Joint-DMA-complaint-Alphabet-for-publication.pdf

A #ThankGNU! to Podbielniak Giving Fund and Reynaldo Cordero 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 Ron Hume and Wan Steinbrenner McCutcheon Augustas A.P. Wimberly-Jackson 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 Dario Armani and David Klann 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

New episode

Listen to our latest episode of the Software Freedom Podcast about the AI act!

https://fsfe.org/news/podcast/episode-36.en.html

With the EU AI Act about to come into force, @annabonnie and @lexelas discuss the current debate surrounding it and shed light on the arguments.

A #ThankGNU! to Catalin Francu and Deborah Jackson 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

"Recent and not so recent changes in OpenBSD that make life better (and may turn up elsewhere too)" https://nxdomain.no/~peter/recent-and-not-so-recent_changes_in_openbsd_that_make_life_better.html and "The Impending Doom of Your Operating System Going to or Past 11, Versus the Lush Oasis of Open Source Systems" https://nxdomain.no/~peter/blog_wild_wild_world_of_windows.html - two 2021-vintage pieces of mine that are still relevant, unfortunately/fortunately #openbsd #windows11 #freesofware #libresoftware #softwarefreedom #sovereigncomputing

A #ThankGNU! to Adarsh Melethil and Arthur Gleckler 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

CRA: #FreeSoftware stewards, maintainers, and manufactures, share your input!

To assess how the #CRA may impact the Free Software ecosystem,we have developed a questionnaire:

https://fsfe.org/news/2025/news-20250717-01.en.html

It will help shape an informed response to the CRA's implementation and contribute in particular to guidance.

Stewards, maintainers, and manufactures: we are waiting for your answer !

A #ThankGNU! to Maks Romih and Richard Greer 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

Fossify brings back ad-free, open-source Android tools after Simple Mobile Tools was sold and monetized

Forked by former devs, Fossify includes a file manager, calendar, contacts, music player & more—no ads, no paywalls, no bloat
Available on F-Droid & Play Store

https://www.howtogeek.com/fossify-app-suite-android-open-source/

A #ThankGNU! to Podbielniak Giving Fund and Reynaldo Cordero 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 Terrance Druggan and Yuchen Pei 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

I'm struck by how important the Berne Convention is to the global adoption of #OpenSource. Without it software copyright would be a hotchpotch of different principles and policies in different countries and standardised licensing would be ineffective at delivering #SoftwareFreedom globally.

Seduced by that experience of uniform global law, we somehow believe global open licensing for other forms of expression will be easy. It will not. It may not even be possible.

Have you realized that all your Internet traffic, encryption, backups, communications, shopping, writing, business interactions, and so on, go through your router?

Is your router free? If not, your digital freedom could be compromised.

The good news: #RouterFreedom is secured by EU laws.
The not so good ones: Router Freedom is still not a full reality in most of the EU countries.

https://fsfe.org/activities/routers/routers.en.html