Mathstodon

Matt "msw" WilsonUnpopular opinion: If you do not perform all the obligations of a license like the AGPLv3 yourself, and would gladly and fearlessly use software produced by someone else exclusively available under that license as part of your software service, you shouln’t offer your software under that license.<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/FOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FOSS</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OSS</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/FreeSoftware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FreeSoftware</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OpenSource</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/SoftwareFreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SoftwareFreedom</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/AGPL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AGPL</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/AGPLv3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AGPLv3</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/SaaS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SaaS</a>

Strypey<a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Watching" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Watching</a> The Internship (2013) reminds me how tectonically the narratives around corporate tech have changed in the last decade. I doubt you couldn sell an aspirational story about interning at Goggle now.We did that. All of us. Working *together*.<a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/TechActivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TechActivism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/EthicalTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EthicalTech</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/HumaneTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HumaneTech</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/SoftwareFreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SoftwareFreedom</a>

Strypey(1/2)A mistrust of apps is not a bad thing. The majority of them exist only to exploit their access to your device for DataFarming purposes (see my recent post about ZipoApps).That's why I'm so fussy about installing phone apps only from F-Droid. Where they've been rebuilt from source code and checked for spyware, which they either remove, or at least flag (eg if the app is tethered to a DataFarming remote service). <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/FDroid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FDroid</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/SoftwareFreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SoftwareFreedom</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/DataFarming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DataFarming</a><a href="https://sunny.garden/@KneeNeart" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@KneeNeart</a>

MuhammadFree🇵🇸Good day everyone! I recently found a project i'm really excited about, it's called Mission:Libre. It's a project that aims to get teens like me into free software - because they are gonna be the adults of tomorrow. Check out they'd website <a href="https://missionlibre.org" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://missionlibre.org</a>Kinds and teens don't have to get an idea of free software - they need to experience it <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/FreeSoftware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FreeSoftware</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/SoftwareFreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SoftwareFreedom</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/GNU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GNU</a>

Luke T. ShumakerStill requires a CLA though, which means the GPL isn't protecting you from Redis Ltd., and they are free to do another rug-pull in the future.<a href="https://social.coop/tags/SoftwareFreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SoftwareFreedom</a>

Free Software FoundationA <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/ThankGNU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ThankGNU</a>! to Joseph Cox, Katherine Runyon, and Kevin Runner for helping the FSF to promote <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/FreeSoftware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FreeSoftware</a>. To see a longer list of those who have helped us financially in our advocacy for <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/SoftwareFreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SoftwareFreedom</a> and awareness, visit: <a href="https://u.fsf.org/45m" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://u.fsf.org/45m</a>

Matt "msw" WilsonI will believe that a company that offers software they exclusively control under the AGPLv3 license truly embraces the Open Source Community when they accept a contribution under AGPLv3 from me and meet all of the obligations of the license for network-based services they offer that uses my contribution.<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OSS</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/FOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FOSS</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OpenSource</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Copyleft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Copyleft</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/FreeSoftware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FreeSoftware</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/SoftwareFreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SoftwareFreedom</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/AGPLv3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AGPLv3</a>

Jason Self🚨 The future of the <a href="https://fosstodon.org/@osuosl" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@osuosl</a> is in jeopardy. They need $250K in committed funds by May 14 to avoid shutdown. Staff, students & 500+ free software projects depend on them. Please share or donate: <a href="https://osuosl.org/donate" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://osuosl.org/donate</a> 💔Contact: donations@osuosl.org <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FreeSoftware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FreeSoftware</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SoftwareFreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SoftwareFreedom</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GNU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GNU</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Linux</a>

Bradley M. Kuhn<a href="https://floss.social/@downey" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@downey</a> notes dire need of/for <a href="https://fosstodon.org/@osuosl" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@osuosl</a>… <a href="https://osuosl.org/blog/osl-future/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://osuosl.org/blog/osl-future/</a> … <a href="https://floss.social/tags/SoftwareFreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SoftwareFreedom</a> <a href="https://social.sfconservancy.org/users/conservancy" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@conservancy</a> (where I work) helps <a href="https://floss.social/tags/FOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FOSS</a> projects w/nonprofit infrastructure. We don't need to offer server hosting *b/c* OSU OSL exists. SFC projects like <a href="https://mastodon.art/@inkscape" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@inkscape</a> & others rely *every day* on <a href="https://fosstodon.org/@ramereth" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@ramereth</a> & his team. ALSO: Lance is training the next generation of FOSS system infrastructure engineers — slowly becoming a lost art to proprietariness since the knowledge is increasingly locked in big hosting companies.

Free Software FoundationA <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/ThankGNU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ThankGNU</a>! to Christos Kalkanis, Dwayne Dever, and František Kučera for helping the FSF to promote <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/FreeSoftware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FreeSoftware</a>. To see a longer list of those who have helped us financially in our advocacy for <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/SoftwareFreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SoftwareFreedom</a> and awareness, visit: <a href="https://u.fsf.org/45m" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://u.fsf.org/45m</a>

Free Software Foundation Europe👩‍🏫👨‍💻 Parents, teachers, geeks, mentors... do you know "Ada & Zangemann"? This illustrated book is a perfect tool to start conversations with kids (and everyone!) about software freedom, the need to shape our technology, and the joy of tinkering. 🛠️💭Gift it. Read it. Share it. 📖✨ada.fsfe.org<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FreeSoftware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FreeSoftware</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SoftwareFreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SoftwareFreedom</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RightToRepair" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RightToRepair</a>

Simon PhippsIn the spirit of Free Comic Book Day on Saturday, I'm rather enjoying this new comic strip about an "open community project" (more a serialised graphic novel - it only makes sense as a whole) that has sprung up. Frequently unsure whether to laugh or wince, but I guess that means it's really well done! <a href="https://www.collaboraonline.com/torf/torf1/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.collaboraonline.com/torf/torf1/</a><a href="https://meshed.cloud/tags/Comics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Comics</a> <a href="https://meshed.cloud/tags/FreeComicBookDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FreeComicBookDay</a> <a href="https://meshed.cloud/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OpenSource</a> <a href="https://meshed.cloud/tags/FOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FOSS</a> <a href="https://meshed.cloud/tags/FLOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FLOSS</a> <a href="https://meshed.cloud/tags/SoftwareFreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SoftwareFreedom</a> <a href="https://meshed.cloud/tags/Community" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Community</a>

Free Software FoundationA <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/ThankGNU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ThankGNU</a>! to Adam Oberbeck, Andy Kopra, and Ayan Jaysan for helping the FSF to promote <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/FreeSoftware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FreeSoftware</a>. To see a longer list of those who have helped us financially in our advocacy for <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/SoftwareFreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SoftwareFreedom</a> and awareness, visit: <a href="https://u.fsf.org/45m" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://u.fsf.org/45m</a>

Jason SelfFree software isn't a price. It's a promise. A promise to society. A promise to keep the software under the control of the users. A promise to stand against those that would take that freedom away. A promise for the software to be what it should be: An ethical path to empower the users. User freedom is the main focus of the <a href="https://hostux.social/@fsf" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@fsf</a>. You can help support the work by donating: <a href="https://www.fsf.org/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.fsf.org/</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SoftwareFreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SoftwareFreedom</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FreedomToShare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FreedomToShare</a>

Jason SelfDid you know <a href="https://mastodon.xyz/@rms" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@rms</a> launched the <a href="https://hostux.social/@fsf" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@fsf</a> in 1985 to promote freedom-respecting software? Or that one of his cornerstone creations, the GNU Project, laid the groundwork for what's now a huge ecosystem of free software? Stallman's vision questions who controls our software. Dive into the free software movement and discover a community dedicated to user freedom and control over your computing! <a href="https://www.gnu.org/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.gnu.org/</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FreeSoftware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FreeSoftware</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SoftwareFreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SoftwareFreedom</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GNU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GNU</a>

Free Software Foundation Europe💥 Thanks to our volunteers part of our translation team, our news can be delivered in diverse European languages! 💥 One of the tools they are using, also created by one of our volunteers, is Webpreview. Our latest update integrates LibreTranslate, providing a helpful starting point to speed up the translation process. 🚀 <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2025/news-20250429-01.en.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://fsfe.org/news/2025/news-20250429-01.en.html</a>⚠️ You can also join our translators team! <a href="https://fsfe.org/contribute/translators/translators.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://fsfe.org/contribute/translators/translators.html</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SoftwareFreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SoftwareFreedom</a>

StrypeyFortunately some developers stepped up to fork the Simple apps under the name Fossify; <a href="https://www.fossify.org/apps/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.fossify.org/apps/</a>So we can still have that simple, pleasant app experience we know and love, with regular updates via F-Droid or our app manager of choice.This is a textbook example of how Free Code licenses, which enshrine the software freedoms of the people who use software, can protect us from enshittification.(3/3)<a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/SoftwareFreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SoftwareFreedom</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/CopyLeft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CopyLeft</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/FreeCode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FreeCode</a>

Free Software FoundationA <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/ThankGNU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ThankGNU</a>! to Sandhya Ramaswamy Devi, Valerio Poggi, and Water Chika for helping the FSF to promote <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/FreeSoftware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FreeSoftware</a>. To see a longer list of those who have helped us financially in our advocacy for <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/SoftwareFreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SoftwareFreedom</a> and awareness, visit: <a href="https://u.fsf.org/45m" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://u.fsf.org/45m</a>

MuhammadFree🇵🇸People who support Open Source are often talking about Free (libre) software, although they dont realize it. <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/FreeSoftware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FreeSoftware</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OpenSource</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/OSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OSS</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/SoftwareFreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SoftwareFreedom</a>

FreedoHi, it’s me, Freedo! 🐧✨ I'm happy to announce new Linux-Libre kernel releases: 6.14.4-gnu, 6.12.25-gnu, 6.6.88-gnu, and 6.1.135-gnu are out now! 🛠️💻 Free as in freedom, polished and ready for you! 🌟 Grab them, spread the word, and keep computing in freedom. Your adventure in freedom awaits! 💖🐧 Thank you everyone for supporting fully free software - you make the world better! 🚀 <a href="https://www.fsfla.org/ikiwiki/selibre/linux-libre/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.fsfla.org/ikiwiki/selibre/linux-libre/</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FreeSoftware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FreeSoftware</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SoftwareFreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SoftwareFreedom</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GNU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GNU</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Linux</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LinuxLibre" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LinuxLibre</a>

Recent searches

Search options

Administered by:

Server stats:

#softwarefreedom