Notices tagged with freesoftware, page 3

Looking for free software applications for primary school education? We've got you covered! Check out Category/Education/elementary on the #FreeSoftwareDirectory https://u.fsf.org/3u1 #FreeSoftware #FreeSoftwareInEducation

#ThankGNU! to Matomo.org 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

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We want to demonstrate, even people who don't have any programming skills can meaningfully adapt a Free Software to fit their needs, if they come together, pool money and hire a programmer.

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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. https://u.fsf.org/3uj

Interested in helping #freesoftware users find freedom-respecting programs by updating the Free Software Directory (FSD)? Please consider joining this Friday's upcoming FSD meeting on IRC. Read more at: https://www.fsf.org/events/fsd-2024-10-25-irc #FreeSoftwareDirectory

#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

Educational institutions of all levels should use and teach #FreeSoftware because it is the only software that allows them to accomplish their essential missions: to disseminate human knowledge and to prepare students to be good members of their community https://u.fsf.org/1dz

Free Software Foundation hosts a XMPP server, associate members are allowed access to the server as a member benefit.

XMPP is a decentralized and federated messaging network.
XMPP supports end-to-end encryption via OMEMO and OpenPGP/GnuPG.

XMPP: https://mastodon.online/@blueghost/112358789838228932
OMEMO: https://mastodon.online/@blueghost/112726876458648823
GnuPG: https://mastodon.online/@blueghost/111974048270035570

Website: https://www.fsf.org/associate/benefits
Mastodon: @fsf

#FSF #FreeSoftware #XMPP #OMEMO #Encryption #Privacy #InfoSec #E2EE #Messaging #OpenPGP #PGP #GnuPG #GPG #OpenSource

Want to help #GNU? There are many ways to help #freesoftware to grow: https://u.fsf.org/2ca

#ThankGNU! to Matomo.org 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

@carmenbianca
> The thing that frustrates me about this is that the #FreeSoftware community wastes so much fucking time on #Stallman. [...] this man is unfit to lead the social movement for our digital liberation.

without stallman there wouldn't be the "social movement for our digital liberation". almost everyone else would lack the wit to dream up free software. even less if it was the 1980s. some gratefulness for this achievement certainly is in order.

> We are freed together as a community, not as individuals.

freedom is by definition individualist, free software is individualist. free software is voluntary contracts between individuals.

it's the polar opposite of any collectivist idea. it _especially_ has nothing in common with ridiculous ideas of abolishing property rights. ideas history has proven countless times to kill millions and not even work in the first place.

> The system of collaboration and the sharing of our digital infrastructure makes this thing liberating for all of us, not my ability to patch better Esperanto support into glibc.

the first is a direct consequence of the latter. the ability to study and modify software is precondition to collaboration and sharing in the realm of software.

> There are so many people (men…) who make this community less lovely than it is.

looks like judging people based on external characteristics is back on the menu!

> But instead of lifting up other voices, or addressing other toxicity, we're stuck endlessly dealing with this one eccentric man.

yet you comment on matters regarding RMS instead of doing these other things.

#ThankGNU! to Matomo.org 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

Chromebooks foisted on students? Teachers monitoring what children do outside of the classroom via nonfree software? Surveillance of children is common, and it's at your child's school, too. Support #FreeSoftware https://u.fsf.org/32h

🧅 Tor's Global Encryption Day Event 🧅
🗓 21 Octubre 2024 11:00 (GMT-6)
📺 https://www.youtube.com/live/r-wgsjyQlLs
🐘https://mastodon.social/@torproject/113330385847554283
#Tor #Privacy #GlobalEncryptionDay #FreeSoftware

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝘀𝗼𝗳𝘁𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲?

"Free Software" identify mobile and desktop #apps, interfaces, frameworks and libraries with freedom-respecting licensing terms that guarantee the rights to execute, redistribute, study and improve their source code.
#FreeSoftware is a type of #OpenSource software, so all users must always retain unlimited access to the source code.

𝗔𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗦𝗼𝗳𝘁𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗹𝘀𝗼 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝗦𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲?

Yes, because all Free / Libre #apps must guarantee that their source code is accessible by everyone. #FreeSoftware is a subset of #OpenSource software which grants additional fundamental rights to the end users through legal and technical means.

𝗔𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝗦𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝗽𝗽𝘀 𝗮𝗹𝘀𝗼 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲 / 𝗟𝗶𝗯𝗿𝗲?

No, #OpenSource software doesn't offer the same fundamental rights and permissive licensing terms as #FreeSoftware. Non-free / Non-libre licenses can impose limitations on how the #sourcecode must be used, modified or redistributed.

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 '-𝗼𝗿-𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿' 𝗰𝗹𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗺𝗲𝗮𝗻?

The "-or-later" clause allows users to pick which version of the same #license they want to use, even if it was created far after the licensed software. Its usage is controversal: it creates uncertainty when determining if a software is really free and can be used to sneak in terms incompatible with #freesoftware principles.
For these reasons, legal savvy developers often prefer licenses marked with "-only".

#ThankGNU! to Rolando Garza and Tomislav Pintaric 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