The free software movement has come a long way in forty years. We want to take a moment to thank the people and projects who have helped bring us to this point, and ask for your support in the decades ...

BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA (Thursday, November 6, 2025): The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today announced the winning photo ...

The free software community has always thwarted the toughest challenges facing freedom in technology. We want to take a moment to thank the people and projects who have helped bring us to this point - ...

For individual-donor acknowledgements, see ThankGNUs. Through corporate patronage, companies and other organizations can support the FSF in its mission to defend and protect computer users' rights. In ...

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 ...

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 ...

This paper is published as part of our call for community whitepapers on Copilot. The papers contain opinions with which the FSF may or may not agree, and any views expressed by the authors do not ...

Kooyman joined the Free Software Foundation (FSF) as program manager in 2019, in charge of public activities and communications, and became the executive director in February 2022. As program manager, ...

April and May 2018: Photos from Ottawa, during the discussion "Two lessons from the Phoenix payroll puzzle," and from Montreal, at the Adte's annual colloquium - Read More… ...

Additionally, there are a number of other ways you can benefit the FSF financially: Please note: Some of the ways require running nonfree JavaScript. We have tested ...

Knowing which hardware devices support GNU/Linux is important not only for practical reasons — you want your hardware to work with the software that you want to use — but also for ethical and ...

There are thousands of pieces of free software, many of which are listed in our directory of free software, but of these projects, a few dozen are extremely common — we call these the free software ...