FSF blogs
Obama and Congress go off the rails trying to fast track TPP
Fast tracking the TPP negotiations is back on the table. We have to fight back.
New article by RMS, "How to Make Hardware Designs Free"
"We must design free hardware. But the question remains: how?"
Watch Your Freedom (Because Apple's Not)
At Apple's "Spring Forward" press event on Monday, March 9, the electronics company expounded upon its plans to release a smartwatch and revealed updates to its MacBook computer line, among other announcements. Underneath their focus on "innovation" and "design," however, Apple CEO Tim Cook and other participating speakers neglected to address growing concerns about the proprietary software and Digital Restrictions Management technologies distributed with its products and services, which only serve to extend the company's oppression of computer users and their freedoms.
Wherever you are, we want you to be part of LibrePlanet
The free software movement is a global phenomenon, and we want the LibrePlanet conference to reflect that. That's why, wherever you are, you are invited to participate remotely by watching the livestream and participating in the discussion via chat.
New article by RMS, "Why We Need Free Digital Hardware Designs"
"To what extent do the ideas of free software extend to hardware? Is it a moral obligation to make our hardware designs free, just as it is to make our software free? Does maintaining our freedom require rejecting hardware made from nonfree designs?"
The new and improved my.fsf.org
As the very first full-time web developer for the FSF, I was happy to see my first major project launch: the new and improved https://my.fsf.org.
Thank you, to reddit and the reddit community!
Yesterday, reddit announced that they will be giving a donation of $82,765.95 to each of ten nonprofits. The process for determining who would receive the money was driven by voting among reddit community members over the last week.
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!
GNU Spotlight with Karl Berry: nineteen new GNU releases!
19 new GNU releases in the last month (as of February 23, 2015):