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What we're up against
By Zoë Kooyman, Executive Director
The Free Software Foundation has myriad articles stating that we are up against billions, or even trillions of proprietary software dollars. They use these dollars for marketing that convinces people to use their products; they use it to develop ways to make us believe we want to cede control over software, and they use it to pay the legal fees for expensive lawyers to push the boundaries of what is legal further and further away from what is moral.
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Interview with Dragora GNU/Linux developer Matías Fonzo
By Jing Luo, GNU webmaster
This interview was conducted between Jing Luo (JL), a GNU webmaster, and Matías Fonzo of the Dragora GNU/Linux project. Dragora GNU/Linux-libre is currently struggling to find enough funds to continue its work, and could use your support. Dragora is a fully-free distribution of the GNU/Linux operating system.
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From curiosity to commitment: a personal adventure to freedom
By Anush Veeranala, FSF tech team intern
In my digital adventures, I love using free (as in freedom like free speech, not gratis) software. Many people use the term "open source" to refer to free software, but I have since learned that free software, with its emphasis on freedom and ethics, is the term that fits my values.
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The programs we use every day
By Miriam Bastian, Programs Manager
Did you know that at the FSF we do all of our entire computing with free software? In this interview, you can learn how the FSF staff does their day-to-day tasks with free software, which programs helped them get started with free software, and read some stories about how they came to use a specific program.
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Can a license protect against future threats to computer user freedom?
By Krzysztof Siewicz, Licensing & Compliance Manager
Software is free when you are free to run, copy, distribute, study, change, and improve it. The Free Software Foundation (FSF) recommends copyright holders use the FSF's GNU family of licenses to free their programs. We are the stewards of these standard free software licenses, which we designed with care and in cooperation with the community and lawyers to ensure they perpetuate software freedom. GNU licenses explicitly grant the freedoms as defined in the Free Software Definition. Our licenses include copyleft clauses which ensure that users can exercise these freedoms in derivative works, such as improvements and combinations (by requiring that such works are subject to the same license).
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