20 stories tagged free-software, newest first.
501 points by Tomte | 242 comments
Blog post announcing the Digital Dissident Devroom at FOSDEM 2027 and its call for talks on censorship circumvention, metadata-resistant messaging and at-risk user tools.
7 points by gum_wobble | 6 comments
Blog essay by Jake Bauer arguing that the copyleft Free Software movement and the GPL fail at their stated goals and harm the broader FOSS ecosystem.
346 points by dewey | 159 comments
GNU Taler news post announcing Taler Operations AG in Bochum, which will seek a BaFin e-money licence to operate Taler in Germany after GLS Bank withdrew, and is seeking investors.
18 points by speckx | 6 comments
Blog post criticizing the Linux kernel's relaxed rules on disclosing LLM-assisted patches, arguing it undermines GPL enforcement and the free software community.
645 points by smartmic | 270 comments
Refund4Freedom campaign page explaining how to get a refund for the preinstalled Windows license on new laptops and listing its demands to vendors.
448 points by boramalper | 358 comments
Personal blog post explaining the author's regret about moving projects to Codeberg after its new terms restricting which projects are welcome.
350 points by nohell | 235 comments
An anonymous essay on Nonograph arguing for writing software and giving it away free, citing the platform's own low costs versus subscription-driven enshittification.
669 points by zeristor | 114 comments
Homepage of OpenRocket, a free, fully featured model rocket simulator for designing and simulating rockets, with downloads for Linux and other OSes.
856 points by panic | 155 comments
Blog post by Matthias Kirschner for I Love Free Software Day thanking the ArchWiki maintainers and documentation maintainers for their often-unrecognized work.
374 points by kirschner | 73 comments
FSFE news post announcing that VLC lead developer Jean-Baptiste Kempf received the European SFS Award 2025 at SFSCON.
1165 points by dagmx | 752 comments
Download page for Affinity by Canva, an all-in-one creative app for design, image editing, and layout, now offered free with a Canva account.
866 points by cryptophreak | 559 comments
A blog post arguing that free and open-source software often has interfaces too complex and intimidating for non-technical users.
1435 points by g-b-r | 583 comments
Free Software Foundation news announcement of Librephone, a project to develop fully free software for mobile phones.
411 points by smartmic | 114 comments
About page for GNU Health, a free software ecosystem for hospital management, public health, laboratory management, personal health records and bioinformatics.
396 points by doener | 237 comments
Homepage of Jellyfin, a volunteer-built free software media server for streaming your own media to any device.
355 points by thunderbong | 248 comments
Homepage of Forgejo, a self-hosted lightweight software forge developed under Codeberg e.V. as exclusively free software.
430 points by LorenDB | 162 comments
Homepage of OpenSCAD, a free script-based solid 3D CAD modelling program for Linux, Windows, and macOS.
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1203 points by fury999io | 634 comments
A WebM video of Richard Stallman's talk at the GNU 40 Hacker Meeting, in which he discloses that he has cancer.
356 points by belter | 180 comments
LWN editor Jonathan Corbet describes finally replacing proprietary QuickBooks with free-software accounting after a search that began in 2007.
368 points by encodedrose | 123 comments
FSFE campaign page calling for legislation requiring publicly funded software to be released under a free and open source licence, with an open letter to sign.