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"When companies organize to design productsto restrict us, we have to organize to defeat them" -- FSF president Richard Stallman

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.

The first 5,000 nameshave been printed on a four-foot tall "tablet" and shipped toCupertino. Defective by Design will send a new tablet for every 5,000signatures.

With new tablet device, Apple's Steve Jobs pushes unprecedentedextension of DRM to a new class of general purpose computers

As opinions form about the extent to which the Court ruling impacts the patenting of software, one thing is clear. The State Street ruling that in 1998 opened the flood gates to the patenting of business methods and software has been gutted, if not technically overturned.

by Richard M. Stallman

The Free Software Foundation thanks PayPal for responding to its concerns and making its terms more free software friendly.

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!

"sinking money and time into proprietary software isinconsistent with the core values of freedom and progress."

Sugar Labs and Free Software Foundation Celebrate Software Freedom Day, Announce Joint Efforts to Promote the Sugar Learning Platform for Children Worldwide

Windows7Sins.org: Free Software Foundation launches public awareness campaign against Microsoft and proprietary software

The Free Software Foundation will host a mini-summit on Women in Free Software to discuss how the free software community can cultivate and increase participation by women in free software's development and activism communities.

The Free Software Community now has an ethical alternative to ad networks that promote proprietary software

Last week, Microsoft extended the terms of their Community Promise toimplementations of the ECMA 334 and 335 standards. You might thinkthis means it's safe to write your software in C#. However, thispromise is full of loopholes, and it's nowhere near enough to make C#safe.

The FSF is hiring a campaigns manager to be part of the team that runs DefectiveByDesign and PlayOgg, helps coordinate the GNU Project, and generates new campaign ideas. This is an opportunity to take a leadership role in the organization that sponsors the GNU project, publishes the GPL, and fights for software freedom.

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) and Cisco Systems, Inc. are pleased toannounce that they have reached a joint agreement.

The deadline for applications for the summer term is Monday, May 25.

End Software Patents today launched en.swpat.org, a wiki to document the case against software patents. Over 100 articles have already been started to give an idea of the scope and structure of the wiki.

Boston, MA, USA - Monday, February 14, 2005 - The Free SoftwareFoundation (FSF) today announced the appointment of Peter T. Brown asits new Executive Director.

BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA -- Monday, March 30, 2009 -- The FreeSoftware Foundation (FSF) today released the complete audio recordingsfrom the first day of the LibrePlanet GNU/Linux conference, held onMarch 21, 2009, in Cambridge, MA.

There is a vital need to draw the Free Software community's attention to the ongoing development work on Free Flash and Free Java platforms.

By organizing this information and delivering it into the hands of activists and law makers, we can form an immense tool to help existing and future campaigns around the world -- Ciaran O'Riordan, Director End Software Patents.

A new license exception will allow the entire GCC codebase to be upgraded to GPLv3, and enable the development of a plugin framework for GCC.

"The fact that Microsoft has repeatedly extended XP cutoff deadlines and is releasing a public beta of Windows 7 today is proof of Vista's failure"

Our target is 750 new FSF members and donors by January 31, to help us fund our campaign goals in 2009.

BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA -- Monday, November 3, 2008 -- The FreeSoftware Foundation (FSF) today announced the release of version 1.3of the GNU Free Documentation License (FDL). This version of thelicense allows public wikis to relicense their FDL-covered materialsunder the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC-BY-SA) 3.0license.

BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA -- Wednesday, October 1, 2008 -- The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today announced a "reboot" of its High Priority Projects list with an accompanying $10,000 grant from Worldlabel.com Inc. The grant will seed a new fund to promote projects on the list, and the FSF is calling for a community conversation about the biggest challenges computer users face using free "as in freedom"software.

Twenty-five years ago on September 27, 1983, I announced a plan to create a completely free operating system called GNU -- for 'GNU is not Unix'.

In January of 2008, software code at the heart of GNU/Linux 3D applications was discovered to be non-free?a potential disaster for free software advocates hoping to see advanced graphical acceleration now common on modern operating systems.

Nominations are requested by 31 October 2008.

BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA -- Thursday, September 11th, 2008 -- It's Saturday and a roomful of people are advising each other on modifying their mobile devices, optimizing their GNU/Linux systems and organizing for software freedom. But it's not a room full of experts -- at least not mostly. Artists, activists, students and others want the freedom to do anything they want with their computers and they're here to learn new tricks and garner shortcuts from each other.

BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA -- Tuesday, September 2, 2008 -- The GNU operating system is turning 25 this year, and the Free Software Foundation (FSF) has kicked off its month-long celebration of the anniversary by releasing "Happy Birthday to GNU," a short film featuring the English humorist, actor, novelist and filmmaker Stephen Fry.

Our Bulletin from Spring 2008 is now available online.

Atheros Communications has announced the release of free software wireless drivers for ath9k. The ath9k driver requires no proprietary binary blobs and works on several chipsets and over a dozen wireless devices.

China Merchants Bank excludes free software users.

The OOXML fight continues: here's one way you can help.

ACTA, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, is a proposed enforcement treaty between United States, the European Community, Switzerland, Japan, Australia, the Republic of Korea, New Zealand and Mexico, with Canada set to join any day now.

Order from a variety of FSF apparel, books and cuddly gnu toys!

BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA -- May 14, 2008 -- The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has marked a milestone in their PlayOgg.org campaign with the announcement that National Public Radio (NPR) news station WBUR Boston has begun worldwide webcasting in the free audio format Ogg Vorbis.

Yesterday's hearing (Monday, October 31, 2005) at the Massachusetts State House was clearly an attempt to delay adoption of OpenDocument Format (ODF) --- delivering a swipe at Peter Quinn, CIO and Director of the state's Information and Technology Division.

The Free Software Foundation will host a mini-summit on Freedom for Network Services to discuss how the free software community can ensure that software, and its users, stay free in this new technological environment.

ESP Estimates U.S. Companies Spend $11.4 Billion Annually on Software Patent Litigation

Boston, Massachusetts, USA--Thursday, February 28th, 2008--The Free Software Foundation announced details for its annual associate member meeting to be held at MIT, Cambridge, MA, on Saturday, March 15th, 2008.

Join the Free Software Foundation and DefectiveByDesign.org this Saturday (2/9/2008) at the Boston Public Library to demand the removal of Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) technology from the library! If you are not from the area, join the cause to eliminate DRM and launch action for your local library if they use DRM.

FOSDEM - Brussels, Belgium - Saturday February 26, 2005. Speech by FSF President Richard Stallman

If you are an FSF associate member, a way to contribute further is by recruiting others to join and support our work. Spreading the word about our work, and how FSF members enable us to do our work, is help that we appreciate.

International coalition of environmental and social justice groupscondemns Microsoft Vista and calls for the adoption of free software

London and Manchester, England ? Tuesday, August 14, 2007 ?Anti-DRM Protesters call on the BBC to eliminate DRM from the iPlayer

"Microsoft has engaged in anticompetitive conduct in the software industry for many years, and has sought to attack free software for almost as long," Free Software Foundation says

Nominations are requested by 31 October 2007.

Boston, Massachusetts, USA---Wednesday, March 7th 2007---The Free Software Foundation announced details for its annual associate member and activist meeting to be held at MIT, Cambridge, MA, on Saturday, March 24th, 2007.

You can help encourage them by signing this petition.

The bid to free the MMORPG (massively multiplayer online roleplaying game) Ryzom fails.

On Tuesday, November 14, 2006, we will be performing maintenance and upgrades at our colocation facility.

BOSTON, November 2, 2006 - Free Software Foundation announces release of gNewSense version 1.0.

gNewSense Splash Screen.

gNewSense login screen.

gNewSense desktop.

A gNewSense logo

HAZMAT SUITS DESCEND UPON FLAGSHIP APPLE STORES IN NEW YORK AND LONDON - protesters label Apple products defective and hazardous to users, and declare Tuesday October 3rd a "Day Against DRM"

Boston Massachusetts, USA - Wednesday January 25, 2006. At the ceremony for the 2005 Free Software Awards, Richard Stallman presented Andrew Tridgell with the award for the advancement of free software.

Nominations are requested by 31 October 2006.

Nominations are requested by October 31 2006.

The Free Software Foundation wishes to clarify a few factual points about the Second Discussion Draft of GNU GPL version 3, on which recent discussion has presented inaccurate information.

The film is by Benjamin Stephen and Lutz Vogel.

Please take a moment to write a letter to your representative in support of the bill.

Six-Month International Review Process Leads to Revisions and Clarifications

Paris, June 28 2006

The free and open source software community has long demanded that industry standards be freely available to all to implement without patent or other licensing encumbrances. Open standards are essential for free software and open source to thrive.

Campaign calls upon Bono to take a stand against the digital restrictions found in new technology and music.

Please ask your Senator to support the Sununu Amendment to strike the broadcast and radio flags.

StopDRM.info press release - Paris, June 9th 2006 -- Several events have been slated to take place thisweekend throughout the world in protest against the digital padlocking ofculture through technical means of protection (DRM or MTP).

Hazmat Suits Greet Microsoft Developers As They Gather For Annual Conference

Barcelona, Spain - June 22nd & 23rd

Please sign the EFF's petition in favor of music sharing.

You can listen to and watch online the proceedings of the 2nd International GPLv3 Conference, part of the Seventh International Free Software Forum.

DADVSI code : Vivendi Universal strikes back, fight the Dark Side of copyright with us!

http://www.bluraysucks.com/boycott

The GNU General Public License stands firm.

"GPLv3 and the future of the free software movement"

lists.gnu.org has resumed normal delivery.

Porto Alegre, Brazil - April 21st & 22nd.

It's like the DMCA, but worse.

The government of France is considering amending a proposed law so that it would prohibit much, or potentially all, free software. Updated February 2, 2006.

"I therefore urge the Boston Public Library to terminate itsassociation with OverDrive Audio Books, and adopt a policy of refusingto be agents for the propagation of Digital Restrictions Management."

A new version of the Broadcast Flag bill seems to give the FCC and broadcasters the authority to regulate the transfer of legally obtained digital audio from the receiving device to any other device, including your computer.

The first draft was released this morning at an internationally attended conference in Cambridge at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

2,349 people have signed at the time of this writing.

It was originally scheduled for 2005-12-06.

nipl.net is "free community", a server running only free software, providing extensive services to the world.

First Public Discussion Scheduled for January

An anti-OpenDocument amendment to an economic stimulus bill has suddenly appeared and will be read today.

Richard Stallman, Tim O'Reilly, Alan Cox, Rasmus Lerdorf and Monty Widenius endorse Florian Mueller's candidacy "because he runs on a NoSoftwarePatents ticket, and that is the message we want to reinforce"

EFF urges a fresh inquiry into the ramifications of DRM.

If you are interested in attending the upcoming FSF seminar on the GPL and Legal Aspects of Free Software Development, please register now, as it is only a week away.

Please send your nominations by 30 November 2005.

"There are some who say that a collaborative development model, taking advantage of these freedoms, tends to make software that is technically better. They may be right, and it would be nice if freedom brings such a practical bonus. However, the freedom itself is more important than the bonus, so the Free Software Movement focuses on the freedom."

Trentino-Alto Adige, a region in Italy, is switching to GNU/Linux in its Italian-language schools.

Microsoft is trying some strange skullduggery with its partners in Treacherous Computing.

Support the move by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts toward free software. Comments are due by Friday.

Announcing the GPL Version 3 Development and Publicity Project (GPLv3)

This show presents an opportunity to learn a little bit about the heritage of GNU/Linux and some background about "free as in speech" software.

You can read a selection of the comments we received and delivered to the U.S. Copyright Office on Monday, August 22, 2005.

Send in your nominations by 31 October 2005.

E-mail us your comment by August 18.

The European Parliament will vote either Tuesday 5th or Wednesday 6th July on the software patents directive. If the Parliament does not succeed in reaching 367 votes for the key amendments, software patents will be a reality in Europe.Many associations of small software players from all over Europe are calling for a demonstration in Strasbourg the day before the vote, to warn MEPs that this directive is a direct danger to the freedom to develop software.

The Free Software Foundation has been honored with an Award of Distinction in the category of "Digital Communities".

The FSF is looking for volunteers to build, test and package fully free versions of OpenOffice.org 2.0 that use GCJ as a replacement for the non-free Java platform.

A new article by Richard Stallman addresses the relationship between patents, Microsoft file formats, and the upcoming vote in Europe.

French and Spanish translations of the recent article by Richard Stallman and Eben Moglen are now available.

Richard Stallman's article on the difference between patents and copyright for software users and developers appears in the Guardian.

Boston, MA, USA - Thursday, June 9, 2005 - The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today released the following article by Richard M. Stallman and Eben Moglen discussing the forthcoming GPL Version 3.

Boston, MA, USA - Thursday, June 9, 2005 - The Free SoftwareFoundation (FSF) today announced that the FSF's Free SoftwareDirectory registered its 4,000th software package.

US citizens: please write a letter to the US Department of Statesaying you want the proposed Hague Convention (about internationalrecognition of choice-of-court clauses) not to apply to non-negotiatedcontracts (such as clickwrap contracts).

"The collaborative Free Software approach is the one that is most sustainable in the long-term."

There is a new addition to the global network of Free Software Foundation organizations. These organizations are run independently, but work cooperatively to protect and advance free software worldwide.

We've opened an area for associate members to meet and share ideas.

FOSDEM - Brussels, Belgium - Saturday February 26, 2005. At the award ceremony for the 2004 Advancement of Free Software.

The Free Software Foundation today will file an amicus brief in support of its colleagues at the Electronic Frontier Foundation who are representing Grokster, Ltd. and others before the US Supreme Court in MGM v. Grokster, which will be heard at the end of this month.

FOSDEM - Brussels, Belgium - Saturday February 26, 2005. At the award ceremony for the 2004 Advancement of Free Software.

In our backyard.

The FSF will be relocating within Boston on May 1, 2005.

We are continuing to mail complimentary copies of Free Culture to our members.

Janet Casey, curator of the FSF/UNESCO Free Software Directory, was interviewed in Linux Weekly News.

Professor Eben Moglen has just confirmed that he will be speaking at both of the upcoming FSF licensing seminars, on August 24th and 25th at Stanford University. His topics will include patents and GPL 3.

Some people have been receiving mail that appears to come from us that carries attachments which are probably dangerous. It's not really from us.

FSF is offering two days of seminars at Stanford University in northern California on the GPL and Free Software Licensing. The dates are August 24 and 25.

One of our most important projects is the Free Software Directory. Janet Casey, the Directory's Maintainer, describes its scope and background.

Closing for the Fourth of July

Database Designer/System Analyst

The rest of the membership packets were mailed on Wednesday, June 23.

Membership packets for U.S. members were mailed on Friday, June 18, 2004.

A gratis copy of Lawrence Lessig's book Free Culture will be sent to all active Associate Members as of 15 June 2004.