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Original post on mastodon.nzoss.nz

Just caught up with the latest enshittification of Red Hat since its assimilation by IBM, loyal supplier of computer systems to fascists since 1933;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust

"... only paying customers will be able to obtain the source code to [RHEL]… And under the […]

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European Commission - Have your say European Commission - Have your say

The @ec.europa.eu is preparing a Communication that will provide guidance on how to apply the Cyber Resilience Act in practice and would like to hear your views:

ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet...

Background: fsfe.org/news/2026/ne...

#CRA #FreeSoftware #SoftwareFreedom #OpenSource

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Original post on mastodon.social

At #FOSDEM I promised people that if you attend the talk by @nicorikken and myself you will feel better afterwards. From the feedback we received I think we accomplished this.

The recording of the talk "Automating translation of a bestseller to spark children's interest in coding" is now also […]

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🙌 Please help so that Google also understands it is not in its interest to jeopardise its own success in mobile by making Android unfriendly to developers who care about #softwarefreedom

#KeepAndroidOpen

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You Don’t Need Pirated Software Anymore – Rohit Farmer A practical guide to replacing pirated software with powerful, legal, and free alternatives for everyday computing.

You Don’t Need Pirated Software Anymore

A practical guide to replacing pirated software with powerful, legal, and free alternatives for everyday computing.

#foss #softwarefreedom #opensource

rohitfarmer.com/posts/2026/y...

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Original post on fosstodon.org

#SoftwareFreedom I have an itch… I have long considered the *app* paradigm to be a fundamentally anti-Free way to package and distribute informatic potentiality.

The "app" leases human compute resources unfairly and unilaterally to a remote entity. This design empowers the Enshittifier. The […]

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Original post on mastodon.social

I want to thank all the contributors of @phosh for improving #softwarefreedom on mobile phones. Thank you so much for the steady progress during the last months!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️

(Transparency note: I am one of the founding members of #Phosh e.V which aims to provide a daily usable, robust and easy to […]

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two people, one of them eating a small cake

two people, one of them eating a small cake

❤️ At the Berlin #ilovefs event I could give a small cake to @kde 's @AleixPol as a small sign of appreciation, thanking him and #KDE for their great work for #softwarefreedom. ❤️

❤️ Today a special thanks to all the #KDE #maintainers!! ❤️

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Original post on mastodon.social

❤️ When I started using #GNU / #Linux one of the most important tools for me were the great books you got together with the #SUSE CDs and floppies.

The documentation was really great for me as a beginner and enabled me to get deeper into the community for #softwarefreedom.

Thanks to all […]

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Original post on mastodon.social

A big thank you to the @libreoffice community for enabling companies, public administrations, nonprofits and individuals to run a office suite that grants them the rights to use, study, share, and improve it. ❤️

How would we be able to open and edit all those proprietary doc, docx, xls, xlsx […]

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Original post on mastodon.social

@fsfe @Foxboron @anthraxx

❤️ And big thanks to other @archlinux contributors I found on the #Fediverse for their contributions to #Archlinux and the many other contributions they do for #softwarefreedom ❤️

@alerque
@Antiz
@artafinde
@BlackIkeEagle
@carsme
@dvzrv
@fabiscafe
@felixonmars […]

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4 people standing next to each other smiling in a cafeteria.

4 people standing next to each other smiling in a cafeteria.

❤️ Thank you to the #Archlinux Wiki maintainers! ❤️

#Maintainers in general, and maintainers of documentation most of the time get way too little recognition for their contributions to #SoftwareFreedom.

ArchWiki is one of the pearls of the internet! That's […]

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Original post on mastodon.social

@jimedrand You can participate at #ilovefs from everywhere around the world. The main way of participating is to thank #FreeSoftware ( #OpenSource ) contributors today. So while it is of course fulfilling to also join on of the events the most important part today is to thank some people for […]

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From FOSDEM to "I ❤️ Free Software Day”: community, policy, and the freedom to study code - FSFE February is a reminder of why our Free Software community matters and why it's such a joy to be part of it. After FOSDEM, we are now looking ahead to the c...

FSFE Newsletter 🚀

February reminds us why our #FreeSoftware community rocks! 🎊 After #FOSDEM, it's time for the #ilovefs day ❤️!

Catch up with our latest episodes of the #SoftwareFreedom Podcast 🎧 and a Legal Corner article
💻 fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-2...

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The social value of the freedom to study source code in the Spanish Court - FSFE While copyright and licensing currently form the core legal structures that support Free Software, a September 2025 ruling from the Spanish Supreme Court p...

⚖️ New Legal Corner Article ⚖️

We look at the Spanish ruling that sets a key precedent for transparency in source code and algorithms, supporting the Freedom to Study.
fsfe.org/news/2026/ne...

Thanks to @civio.es for their outstanding work!

#SoftwareFreedom #FreeSoftware #transparency

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ILoveFS at IAE poster

ILoveFS at IAE poster

Knitting Our Internet poster

Knitting Our Internet poster

Events I organised for I Love Free Software Day 2026!

🧶 Knitting Our Internet at Snackbar Frieda, Rotterdam, on Feb 13 at 18. All information here.

🛹 A reading of Ada & Zangemann + a conversation together with Bonfire ❤️‍🔥 at the @internetarchive.eu, Amsterdam on Feb 14 at 14. All information here.

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Original post on fosstodon.org

🚨 Today is the last day to donate to @conservancy's match-challenge annual fundraiser!

@karen and team do an amazing job fighting for #softwareFreedom, which impacts everyone's digital rights, right-to-repair, etc. A lesser-known fact is that #SFC is the fiscal sponsor of #git, among several […]

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does anyone else see a microsoft windows and go BLEURGH 🤮 ?

#foss #fsf #softwarefreedom

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The 'Loss32' concept gains appeal by offering access to a massive existing software library. Imagine running decades of Windows applications natively on Linux, thanks to WINE providing that stable environment. #SoftwareFreedom 4/6

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The role of the Cyber Resilience Act for Free Software - FSFE While the implementation of the EU Cyber Resilience Act is currently underway, several questions remain open, especially regarding its implications for the...

The implementation of the EU #CRA is currently underway but several questions remain open, especially regarding its implications for the #FreeSoftware landscape.

We gained insights within the @bsi.bund.de project ‘Dialogue for Cybersecurity’

Read more: fsfe.org/news/2025/ne...

#SoftwareFreedom

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Adieu Microsoft: Schleswig-Holstein setzt auf Open Source und spart Millionen Mit der Migration von Microsoft zu freier Software zahlt Schleswig-Holstein gut 15 Millionen Euro Lizenzkosten weniger. Die Umrüstung kommt deutlich günstiger.

Adieu #Microsoft: Schleswig-Holstein setzt auf #OpenSource und spart Millionen www.heise.de/news/Adieu-M... #FreeSoftware #SoftwareFreedom

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez should join the #SoftwareFreedom advocates of #NHPolitics if they haven't already

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[FOSDEM] Call For Participation: Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom

You want to share knowledge about #policy or #legal topics around #SoftwareFreedom? Please submit your proposal for the #FOSDEM #Legal and #Policy Devroom asap: lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2025q4/...

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Why exactly can I still not uninstall #Microsoft effing #Edge on a fully patched #Windows11 in the EU?

#DigitalMarketsAct #competition #antitrust #DigitalRights #SoftwareFreedom #DMA

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Original post on mastodon.social

Another lesson why it is so important to work on #FreeSoftware in the perspective of decades rather than years. You might have thought that in current times the #DigitalSovereigntySummit would have resulted in more concrete actions and support for #FreeSoftware for the next months. Here a good […]

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Anyone in Oz looking to connect with software freedom types? Check out;

@flounder

#SoftwareFreedom #Australia

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