The free software movement has come a long way in forty years. We want to take a moment to thank the people and projects who have helped bring us to this point, and ask for your support in the decades ...

This year's Free Software Awards recipients are Andy Wingo, Alx Sa, and Govdirectory. Andy Wingo is the winner of the Award for the Advancement of Free Software, which is given to an individual who ...

The free software movement has come a long way in forty years. We want to take a moment to thank the people and projects who have helped bring us to this point, and ask for your support in the decades ...

FSF turns forty with a groundbreaking new project and a new president Oct 04, 2025 ...

View this issue online here: https://www.fsf.org/free-software-supporter/2025/december. Encourage your friends to subscribe and help us build an audience by adding ...

The way that governments get hooked on proprietary software tends to be predatory in nature, often based on offering gratis or low-cost samples only to jack up prices and take away control after a ...

The case before the Ninth Circuit is the appeal of Neo4j, Inc. v. PureThink, LLC. The case involves, among other issues, the application of Section 7 of the GNU AGPLv3. In the case, Neo4j appended an ...

Machine learning (ML) applications raise the issue of whether they respect users' software freedom. The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is preparing a statement of criteria to determine when a machine ...

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Oracle, IBM, and the Apache Software Foundation jointly announced last week that OpenOffice.org would become an official Apache project. OpenOffice.org is an important piece of free software, and many ...

This paper is published as part of our call for community whitepapers on Copilot. The papers contain opinions with which the FSF may or may not agree, and any views expressed by the authors do not ...