Notices tagged with freesoftware, page 18

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! Read about the four freedoms of #FreeSoftware: https://u.fsf.org/2cj

#ThankGNU! to Adarsh Melethil, David Bruce, Deborah Jackson, James Wilson, Mikael Taipale, Peter Sluka, and Valerio Poggi for helping the FSF continue its goal of educating the public about #freesoftware See a longer list of those who have helped us financially in our advocacy for #SoftwareFreedom and awareness: https://u.fsf.org/3vy

Make a pledge to share #freesoftware with a friend or colleague: https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/make-a-pledge-to-share-free-software-with-a-friend

The FSF believes every computer user deserves freedom and tirelessly demonstrates how to do almost everything with #freesoftware. Not only do we provide resources and information on how to realize #softwarefreedom in your daily life, the FSF itself also runs entirely on free software. Support the FSF and help us reach our goal of 200 new associate members by July 26: http://www.fsf.org/join #BecomeAnFSFAssociateMember

#ThankGNU! to Andy Kopra, Anush Veeranala, Catalin Francu, Joseph Pingenot, and Norm Gunn for helping the FSF to promote #freesoftware See a longer list of those who have helped us financially in our advocacy for #SoftwareFreedom and awareness: https://u.fsf.org/3vy

Are Apple devices really privacy-respecting? The truth is that user privacy is *impossible* without #freesoftware. Read more at https://u.fsf.org/3fy

#ThankGNU! to Adarsh Melethil, David Bruce, Deborah Jackson, James Wilson, Mikael Taipale, Peter Sluka, and Valerio Poggi for helping the FSF continue its goal of educating the public about #freesoftware See a longer list of those who have helped us financially in our advocacy for #SoftwareFreedom and awareness: https://u.fsf.org/3vy

The European Union must keep funding free software

https://pad.public.cat/lettre-NCP-NGI#

If you want to sign the letter, please publish the letter on your website and complete the table in the link above.

"The challenge of technological #sovereignty is central, and #free #software allows to address it while acting for #peace and sovereignty in the digital world as a whole."

#EU #FOSS #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #EuropeanUnion #openletter #NGI #horizon #digitalcommons #technology #innovation #PublicValues

In this inspiring blog post, @jxself explains why joining the #freesoftware movement is a powerful act of #empowerment for yourself and society. Read and share: https://jxself.org/uplifts-us-all.shtml

#ThankGNU! to Andy Kopra, Anush Veeranala, Catalin Francu, Joseph Pingenot, and Norm Gunn for helping the FSF to promote #freesoftware See a longer list of those who have helped us financially in our advocacy for #SoftwareFreedom and awareness: https://u.fsf.org/3vy

In this inspiring blog post, @jxself explains why joining the #freesoftware movement is a powerful act of #empowerment for yourself and society. Read and share: https://jxself.org/uplifts-us-all.shtml

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! Read about the four freedoms of #FreeSoftware: https://u.fsf.org/2cj

Our native language projects translate #LibreOffice into 100 languages, making the software usable for billions around the globe! Learn what they did in 2023: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2024/07/20/native-language-projects-tdfs-annual-report-2023/ #foss #opensource #freesoftware

Can we please replace #freesoftware with #libresoftware ? I keep hearing people confusing free software with freeware, and no amount of Stallman hemming and hawing is going to change that. Libre exclusively means "liberty". It's clear and easy and doesn't run the risk of people mislabeling gratis but proprietary software as free software.

Let me make this very clear: you volunteered to pay for and install a #botnet software in your computers. Now it's #commandandcontrol servers had an issue and it broke your business.

You're not firing people and moving to #FreeSoftware because...?

#justsaying #Crowdstrike

#ThankGNU! to Adarsh Melethil, David Bruce, Deborah Jackson, James Wilson, Mikael Taipale, Peter Sluka, and Valerio Poggi for helping the FSF continue its goal of educating the public about #freesoftware See a longer list of those who have helped us financially in our advocacy for #SoftwareFreedom and awareness: https://u.fsf.org/3vy

Should one corporation's faulty routine update determine if you can board your flight or access your money? We don't think so. Because we're not dependent on any of CrowdStrike (or Microsoft's) dis-services, the FSF has been running at full capacity all day on #FreeSoftware. https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/microsoft-global-outage-explained-911-lines-down-flights-grounded-and-more/

Another thing today's incident in #Azure and #Crowdstrike taught us: proprietary software, even security oriented software, is malicious software that can take your business down should *anyone with enough privileges* at those companies want to.

The #europeanunion should reinforce #NGI, rather than silently killing it, with explicit mandates and funding to improve #FreeSoftware in all aspects, including reliability and security.

Not that is not better. It is!

With room for improvement.

Interested to help #freesoftware users find freedom-respecting programs by updating the Free Software Directory (FSD)? Please consider joining today's FSD meeting on IRC. Read more at: https://www.fsf.org/events/fsd-20240719-irc #FreeSoftwareDirectory

A random thought struck me. Freedom 1 of the four software freedoms says: "The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does your computing as you wish (freedom 1)." and it seems to only care about the end result "so it does your computing as you wish". This leads me to believe that it should be possible to limit the development models through licensing as long as that model can produce that result in theory. Has this loophole already been discussed? #freesoftware #opensource