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BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA - Monday, September 22, 2025 - The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today announced the addition of Alexandre Oliva to its board of directors after a three month trial period.

Full operating systems that are recommended by the FSF because they are exclusively free software. Hardware that supports free software Get information about hardware support for free software.

Just because a license is free does not mean it serves the goals of the free software movement well. With no attribution (NA) licenses, things can get really bad. NA licenses are simple, non-copyleft ...

Free software can remain an abstract concept until you're staring down the barrel of a 10MB executable in a hex editor. It was to me when I began my first year of college. Like many budding software ...

"When there is a deliberate choice to restrict, the harmful consequences are deliberate destruction. [...] GNU serves as an example to inspire and a banner to rally others to join us in sharing. This ...

In times like these it becomes all the more important to remember that tools like Zoom, Slack, and Facebook Messenger are not benign public services, and while the sentiment they've expressed to the ...

For announcements of most new GNU releases, subscribe to the info-gnu mailing list: https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu. This month, we welcome TODO new ...

Replicant is a fully free Android distribution supported by the FSF through its Working Together for Free Software Fund. It is the first mobile operating system (OS) to run without relying on ...

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. The AGPLv3 was created to ...

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This paper is also available as a PDF. We have been working hard the last several months to stop Restricted Boot, a major threat to user freedom, free software ideals, and free software adoption.