This summer the Free Software Foundation campaigns manager said that while they’ll never stop aiming to be a “lighthouse” for others, “we recognize that a stance like ours can sometimes be a deterrent to people making important incremental improvements…
FSF Adopts New Governance Measures: a Board Member Agreement and Code of Ethics
The Free Software Foundation’s board “has approved and implemented two new measures designed to help make FSF governance more transparent, accountable, ethical, and responsible,” according to an FSF announcement.
First a Board Member Agreement “enume…
FSF Warns Windows 11 ‘Deprives Users of Freedom and Digital Autonomy’
“October 5 marks the official release of Windows 11, a new version of the operating system that doesn’t do anything at all to counteract Windows’ long history of depriving users of freedom and digital autonomy,” writes Free Software Foundation campaign…
FSF Announces ‘JShelter’ Browser Privacy Extension to Block Fingerprinting, Tracking, and Malware
This week the Free Software Foundation (FSF) announced the JShelter project, “an anti-malware Web browser extension to mitigate potential threats from JavaScript, including fingerprinting, tracking, and data collection.”
The browser add-on — sup…
Richard Stallman Shares His Concerns About GitHub’s Copilot — and About GitHub
destinyland writes: A newly-released video at GNU.org shows an hour-long talk given by free software advocate Richard Stallman for the BigBlueBotton open source conference (which was held online last July). After a 14-minute clip from an earlier speech…