Jan 22, 2025 · Help improve the Free Software Directory (FSD), a catalog of useful free software that runs under free GNU-like systems (not limited to the GNU operating system and its GNU/Linux variants) and a project of the Free Software Foundation (FSF), by adding new entries and updating existing ones. Every Friday, we meet on IRC in the #fsf channel on Libera.Chat.

Free software means that the users have the freedom to run, edit, contribute to, and share the software. Thus, free software is a matter of liberty, not price. We have been defending the rights of all software users for the past 39 years.

Jan 3, 2025 · Every week, free software activists from around the world come together in #fsf on Libera.Chat to help improve the FSD, which is a catalog of useful free software that runs under free GNU-like systems (not limited to the GNU operating system and its GNU/Linux variants) and a project of the Free Software Foundation (FSF).This recaps the work we accomplished at the Friday 3rd, 2025, meeting ...

Jan 22, 2025 · The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is hosting a donor mailing and needs your help to make it happen! Please join us from 14:00 to 17:00 EST, Friday, January 24, and Tuesday, January 28, at 101 Arch St, 2nd Floor Lobby, community space Regus, Boston, MA, 02110, to help us send out thank-you letters and welcome packets to all our supporters throughout the world.

Dec 11, 2024 · Now that 2024 is coming to an end, many people are looking forward and thinking about what they want their 2025 to look like. This thought process looks different for everyone, from more general hopes for the New Year to highly specific goals for each month.

Jan 3, 2025 · Message from president Geoff Knauth: Free software is powerful because of you! From December 30. Public discourse in 2024 revolved around a lot of difficult and stressful questions that had many of us wanting to bury our heads in the sand.

Mar 29, 2010 · Because OpenDocument is a standard, software developers are free to create many different kinds of software which can create OpenDocuments.

Dec 31, 2024 · An honorable mention for Geoff Knauth. On a different note, we would also like to take a moment to appreciate these awards our president Geoff Knauth received for his dedication to aviation: the Meritorious Service Award from the Civil Air Patrol, and the Award for Meritorious Service in a Duty of Great Responsibility.

Nov 16, 2021 · The GNU Affero General Public License version 3 (AGPLv3) is the most protective of computer user freedom, yet it remains the most misunderstood of the GNU family of licenses.

This article was edited on January 18, 2025 to make it clear that this article was written by the board of the FSF, not the founders. The founders of the FSF, started the Free Software Foundation (FSF) in 1985, with the moral goal of giving users control over their computing, what we call software freedom-- and specifically to support developing the …