Join with over 3,000 active members in 48 countries, representing a diverse membership of computer users, artists, software engineers, hackers, students, and activists.

When you sign up as a member you join an informed society working together to make a better world: respectful of individual freedom, social solidarity, personal privacy, and democracy — built on free software.

Why join the Free Software Foundation?

• As a software developer, free software lets you build and improve on the work of others, as part of a social community — built on the principles of sharing.
• As an artist, you can do things with free software that proprietary software does not allow. All free software allows you to use it for any purpose.
• As a user, free software removes you from the power struggle of proprietary software, where you are able to help yourself and are not dependent on a single developer or company to help you.
• As a student, you can study and modify the software you use, learning from and enhancing the tools that you use for education.