Recent blog posts
One month until LibrePlanet! Pre-order t-shirts through March 9th.
LibrePlanet is less than a month away, on March 21st and 22nd. We're working hard to prepare the most memorable conference possible, along with our partners at MIT's Student Information Processing Board (SIPB). More people are registering every day, and we'd love for you to be one of them!
Tell Lenovo: respect user freedom and prevent future Superfishes
Security experts have discovered a highly threatening vulnerability in software preinstalled on some Windows computers manufactured by Lenovo through January 2015. Extreme negligence on the part of Lenovo and unscrupulous programming by its adware partner Superfish seem to have caused the vulnerability.
Will you be my cryptovalentine?
Roses are red, violets are blue; I use free software to encrypt my online communication and so should you.
FSF JavaScript guidelines picked up by Posteo Webmail
Over the last few months, Webmail provider Posteo has been working with the FSF to license and tag all JavaScript on their Web site and Webmail system so that it is immediately identifiable as free software. They have also done everything possible to ensure that it is 100% compatible with the GNU LibreJS browser extension, which automatically blocks any potentially nonfree JavaScript, making it easy to browse the Web in freedom. This is an outstanding effort in defense of the freedom of Posteo's users, and the company deserves recognition for it. We hope others will follow their lead.
GNU Spotlight with Karl Berry: seventeen new GNU releases!
Seventeen new GNU releases in the last month (as of January 23, 2015).
You've brought us this far. One last push before Sunday.
Thirty years. That's how long the FSF has been educating, organizing, and hacking for computer user freedom worldwide. Not one of those years would have been possible without the international community of inspired supporters like you.
Free Software Everywhere in the LibrePlanet 2015 program
What do you get when you combine free software activists, hackers, lawyers, librarians, students, and international aid workers?
These pictures are worth 1,024 words
Today we're launching a new way to express the importance of free software and GNU -- shareable badges.
Help the User Lib video go global
We want you to be able share our new video, User Lib, with your friends, family and colleagues no matter what language they speak. Since we released our new animated video introducing the concept and importance of free software, requests for subtitles and offers to translate have poured in.
GNU Spotlight with Karl Berry: nineteen new GNU releases!
Nineteen new GNU releases in the last month (as of December 22, 2014).