Max Mehl @mxmehl@mastodon.social

Reinhard Muller, long-term volunteer & former Financial Officer, recalls his excitement when he found a Europe-based #FreeSoftware organisation 20 years ago, the FSFE.

In our interview he advises us to keep a long term perspective on issues.

#fsfe20

https://fsfe.org/news/2021/news-20210305-01.en.html

🚨 DEADLINE TODAY 🚨

Get help with clarifying the #licensing and #copyright status of your #FreeSoftware project, and become #REUSE compliant! Register today to receive support by our legal experts:

https://reuse.software/booster/

#opensource #compliance #foss #floss

SFP#11: For our new Software Freedom Podcast episode @mxmehl and Bonnie Mehring talk about the newly launched #REUSE #Booster. For everyone out there who wants to make licensing easier

https://fsfe.org/news/podcast/episode-11.html

Until 8 July projects can apply to get help by the @fsfe with adopting the #REUSE best practices and to clarify their licensing and copyright situation, so that their users and re-users have to deal less with some of the legal aspects in future.

https://reuse.software/booster/ #nt

Finnland bestätigt Routerfreiheit

https://gnulinux.ch/finnland-bestaetigt-routerfreiheit

Tolles Projekt von @Merlar zu #Privacy und #FreieSoftware (#OpenSource):

https://www.freeyoursoftware.fyi

Schaut es Euch mal an, gebt Rückmeldung und wenn es Euch gefällt verbreitet es. #nt

Torsten Grote explored Free Software alternatives for smartphones as early as 2012. ⭐

In our interview we look back at the start of Free Your Android campaign.

Of course, we asked @grote@status.grobox.de which options are available for liberating our phones today.

The interview was conducted in the context of celebrating 20 Years of the FSFE 🙂 #FSFE20

https://fsfe.org/news/2021/news-20210625-01.en.html

Do you maintain a #FreeSoftware project?

Taking care of proper licensing is important for you and your users. Following the #REUSE standards will take most of the load off your shoulders.

Register with REUSE Booster until 8 July to receive tailored support from us!

https://reuse.software/booster

#OpenSource #FOSS #licensing #compliance #FLOSS

REUSE Booster

https://gnulinux.ch/reuse-booster

Today we launch REUSE Booster! 🚀

#REUSE is a set of best practices to make Free Software licensing and copyright much easier for developers. With REUSE #Booster, we give direct support for interested #FreeSoftware projects.

https://fsfe.org/news/2021/news-20210609-01.html

"Tax havens - #Microsoft Irish subsidiary paid zero corporate tax on £220bn profit last year" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/03/microsoft-irish-subsidiary-paid-zero-corporate-tax-on-220bn-profit-last-year

"It's better if you don't know how your tools work"

"It's better if you are not allowed to improve your tools"

If you find those ^ as absurd as I do, you understand why I'm a #FreeSoftware #activist.

– Bernhard Weitzhofer (Public Servant)

https://fsfe.org/about/people/testimonials#weitzhofer

I have encountered more image descriptions on Mastodon in 24 hours than I have in Twitter in a couple of years. Seriously. I'm not exaggerating.
As a blind person, this means a lot to me. If you read this and you describe your images, thank you so, so, so much on behalf of all of us. If you don't, now you know you'll be helping random Internet strangers make sense of your posts by typing in a few more words than usual.

#RouterFreedom in #Europe keeps us busy! The recent EU guidelines are differently interpreted in national states. #Greece is a positive example while #Germany effectively endangers the freedom users had since 2016. And in #Austria, the government has the historic chance to safeguard these essential user rights now!

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