FSF News
Time for nonprofits to leave proprietary fundraising software systems behind
BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA -- Wednesday, April 14th, 2010 -- The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today announced that CiviCRM has earned its recommendation as a fully featured donor and contact management system for nonprofits.
Why I'm rejecting your email attachment
Why I'm rejecting your email attachment: for freedom and the good of the web!
FSF Advocates Free Software for U.S. IPEC Joint Strategic Plan
2009 Free Software Awards Announced
Free Software Award Winners: John Gilmore and the Internet Archive
Day Against DRM: Tuesday, May 4th 2010
"When companies organize to design products to restrict us, we have to organize to defeat them" -- FSF president Richard Stallman
LibrePlanet Free Software Conference: Free as in Freedom!
The annual free software conference LibrePlanet is the place for the free software community -- from old school hackers to brand new users -- to come together and further the collective goals of the free software movement. At LibrePlanet 2010 you can help your neighbor get a head-start in free software or explore the very latest philosophical ideas that will shape computing and user freedom for the next generation.
Defective by Design delivers iPad anti-DRM petition with 5,000 signatures to Jobs -- more coming
The first 5,000 names have been printed on a four-foot tall "tablet" and shipped to Cupertino. Defective by Design will send a new tablet for every 5,000 signatures.
Free Software Foundation files new objection to amended Google Book Search settlement
iPad is iBad for freedom
With new tablet device, Apple's Steve Jobs pushes unprecedented extension of DRM to a new class of general purpose computers
FSF announces LibrePlanet 2010 free software community conference: March 19-21
FSF works with PayPal to the benefit of the free software community
The Free Software Foundation thanks PayPal for responding to its concerns and making its terms more free software friendly.
Why is free software important to you? Submit your response to our new video campaign!
At the Women in Free Software Summit and the Boston celebration of Software Freedom Day 2009, the FSF kicked off a new video testimonial campaign. See how it went, and help support the campaign by submitting a video response to these questions!
Breaking the dependency on proprietary software: A call to nonprofits to refuse Microsoft Windows 7
"sinking money and time into proprietary software is inconsistent with the core values of freedom and progress."
FSF files brief in Bilski case calling on the Supreme Court to eliminate software patents
FSF announces new bounty program, offering "GNU Bucks" for finding nonfree works in free distributions
Sugar Labs and FSF announce joint efforts to promote learning platform for children
Sugar Labs and Free Software Foundation Celebrate Software Freedom Day, Announce Joint Efforts to Promote the Sugar Learning Platform for Children Worldwide