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Free Software Foundation (fsf@status.fsf.org)'s status on Monday, 09-Apr-2018 14:01:19 EDT Free Software Foundation

Next from #LibrePlanet 2018: discover "Pathways for discovery of free software" with Kat Thornton and Morane Gruenpeter @moraneottilia. https://u.fsf.org/2i-

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Free Software Foundation (fsf@status.fsf.org)'s status on Monday, 09-Apr-2018 12:18:50 EDT Free Software Foundation

In case you missed it: something needs to be done to halt the overall abuse of data, and The Guardian, RMS offers a bold proposal: that systems need to be legally required to not collect data in the first place. https://u.fsf.org/2js

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Free Software Foundation (fsf@status.fsf.org)'s status on Monday, 09-Apr-2018 10:26:04 EDT Free Software Foundation

Next up for our #LibrePlanet 2018 retrospective: Connor Solver, "A newcomer’s perspective on & patches for the free software movement." The future of any philosophical movement is in its youth membership. How easy is it for a modern user to join us? https://u.fsf.org/2iz

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Free Software Foundation (fsf@status.fsf.org)'s status on Friday, 06-Apr-2018 14:30:30 EDT Free Software Foundation
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After #LibrePlanet 2018, we have a huge treasure trove of videos of fantastic talks on topics in #freesoftware. First up: Brett Smith @Brett20XX, Director of Strategic Initiatives @Conservancy, with "A usability study of the GPL." https://u.fsf.org/2iy

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Free Software Foundation (fsf@status.fsf.org)'s status on Friday, 06-Apr-2018 12:25:29 EDT Free Software Foundation

Is your company hiring for a job that's primarily about work with free software? Advertise on fsf.org/jobs!

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Free Software Foundation (fsf@status.fsf.org)'s status on Friday, 06-Apr-2018 10:28:33 EDT Free Software Foundation

Join this week's Free Software Directory IRC meetup: TODAY, Friday, April 6, starting at 12 pm EDT/16:00 UTC. https://u.fsf.org/2ix

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Free Software Foundation (fsf@status.fsf.org)'s status on Thursday, 05-Apr-2018 15:42:40 EDT Free Software Foundation

Encryption helps protect the privacy of people you communicate with, and makes life difficult for bulk surveillance systems. Learn how with our Email Self Defense guide: https://u.fsf.org/1df

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Free Software Foundation (fsf@status.fsf.org)'s status on Thursday, 05-Apr-2018 13:06:35 EDT Free Software Foundation

Join this week's Free Software Directory IRC meetup: tomorrow, Friday, April 6, starting at 12 pm EDT/16:00 UTC. https://u.fsf.org/2ix

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Free Software Foundation (fsf@status.fsf.org)'s status on Thursday, 05-Apr-2018 12:04:49 EDT Free Software Foundation

In case you missed it: catch up on the last month in #freesoftware news with the April issue of the Free Software Supporter! https://u.fsf.org/2it

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Free Software Foundation (fsf@status.fsf.org)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Apr-2018 11:58:11 EDT Free Software Foundation

If you can't fix it, you don't own it: defend your right to repair! https://u.fsf.org/2iw
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  Defend Your Right to Repair!
  
  from Electronic Frontier Foundation
  
  (and Tinker, Make, Re-use, or Break) More and more, your devices come embedded with software. From phones to cars to refrigerators to farm equipment, software is helping your stuff work better and smarter, with awesome new features. Cool, right? Yep... until it breaks and you want to fix it yourself (or take it to a local repair shop you trust). Or you think of a way to make it work better that requires tinkering with the software (or some third party does). Or you want to give it to a friend or re-sell it. Then, you have a problem. Why? Copyright. Software is subject to copyright, and than means that, as a rule, you might own your device but you only license the software in it. And that license (often called an “End User License Agreement”) is likely to come with any number of restrictions on your ability to tinker with your stuff. Typical clauses forbid reverse-engineering (i.e., figuring out how the software works so you can adapt it), transfer (i.e., giving it to a friend), and even using unauthorized repair sources at all. Further complication: the software may come with digital locks (aka Digital Rights Management [DRM] or Technical Protection Measures [TPMs]) supposedly designed to prevent unauthorized copying. And breaking those locks, even to do something simple and otherwise legal like tinkering with or fixing your own devices, means breaking the law, thanks to Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. And then there’s manual lockdown, which happens when manufacturers refuse to publish crucial repair information (including the manuals themselves, but also things like diagnostic codes for cars)—and then threaten to sue anyone else who tries to do so with a lawsuit for copyright infringement. The end result: users are disempowered, trained to go hat in hand to the Apple store just to change a battery (rather than doing it themselves). Medical clinics must waste scarce resources on expensive repair contracts rather than patient care. Independent repair shops are driven out of business. And the electronic waste piles up, as users discard their devices rather then fixing them or donating them for re-use. If you can’t fix it, you don’t own it. From challenging restrictive end user agreements to supporting the fair use of repair manuals and diagnostic codes, EFF is fighting to give owners control over their own devices. Learn more through the links below.
Free Software Foundation (fsf@status.fsf.org)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Apr-2018 10:39:27 EDT Free Software Foundation

Thank you to Andres Sarnari, Andrey Smirnov, and Jelle Licht #Emacs, and Andriy Gelman #GNUradio, Mathias Laurin #GNUsmalltalk, and Rishi Khan #GNUconfig #GCC #newlib for assigning their copyright to the FSF! #GNU

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Free Software Foundation (fsf@status.fsf.org)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Apr-2018 13:58:53 EDT Free Software Foundation

Find out what's new with #GNU: 19 new GNU releases from March 2018! https://u.fsf.org/2iu

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Free Software Foundation (fsf@status.fsf.org)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Apr-2018 11:53:32 EDT Free Software Foundation

Every donation we receive counts so much in our fight for #freesoftware. #ThankGNU to René Genz, Sam Halliday, Steve Sprang, and Valerio Poggi for your generous support! https://u.fsf.org/1kq

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Free Software Foundation (fsf@status.fsf.org)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Apr-2018 10:23:22 EDT Free Software Foundation

RMS is in today's issue of the Guardian @guardian with a radical proposal to keep your personal data safe: the only safe database is one that's never been collected, and we need laws to stop this data being collected in the first place. https://u.fsf.org/2iv
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  A radical proposal to keep your personal data safe | Richard Stallman
  
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  The surveillance imposed on us today is worse than in the Soviet Union, says president of the Free Software Foundation, Richard Stallman
Free Software Foundation (fsf@status.fsf.org)'s status on Monday, 02-Apr-2018 15:28:07 EDT Free Software Foundation

Get all of your #freesoftware news here: the April issue of the Free Software Supporter is live! https://u.fsf.org/2it

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Free Software Foundation (fsf@status.fsf.org)'s status on Monday, 02-Apr-2018 13:42:21 EDT Free Software Foundation

#ThankGNU to Ben Abrams, Ed Price, Kyohei Moriyama, Nathan Boy, and Nicholas Grove for your extremely generous support. https://u.fsf.org/1kq

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Free Software Foundation (fsf@status.fsf.org)'s status on Monday, 02-Apr-2018 12:31:59 EDT Free Software Foundation

#LibrePlanet 2018 may be over, but there's still plenty to learn about #freesoftware from our speakers -- check out the videos of almost all of the talks here: https://u.fsf.org/2iq
https://u.fsf.org/2iq

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Free Software Foundation (fsf@status.fsf.org)'s status on Monday, 02-Apr-2018 10:16:52 EDT Free Software Foundation

Were you at #LibrePlanet 2018? We want to know what you think, to make our #freesoftware conference even better next year: https://u.fsf.org/2is

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Free Software Foundation (fsf@status.fsf.org)'s status on Thursday, 29-Mar-2018 15:22:54 EDT Free Software Foundation

Did you celebrate Document Freedom Day? Read more about the ever growing importance of Open Standards for all aspects of our digital communication and information accessibility: https://u.fsf.org/2ir

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Free Software Foundation (fsf@status.fsf.org)'s status on Thursday, 29-Mar-2018 11:30:39 EDT Free Software Foundation

We hope you had as much fun as we did at #LibrePlanet 2018! https://u.fsf.org/2ip Videos of talks are going up fast -- check them out at https://u.fsf.org/2iq !

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