On October 4, 2025, the day when the FSF actually turns forty, we invite you to celebrate the free software philosophy with us at our home base in Boston, MA, USA. After one year of working almost ...

In a world where technology is becoming increasingly predatory, free software is the solution. The FSF has been defending your software freedom for forty years. Join us in our crucial work to protect ...

Last month, as part of our year of celebrating forty years since the FSF's founding, we kicked off our member spotlight series with long-term FSF supporter and GNU Taler developer Iván Ávalos. Today, ...

BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA (Tuesday, July 16, 2025), the Free Software Foundation (FSF) today announced the projects that ...

In a win for free software activists, the United States Social Security Administration reversed its policy plan that would require using a freedom-disrespecting website or traveling to an in-person ...

Seventeen new GNU releases in the last month (as of January 31, 2025): ...

The FSF has published its evaluation of the " Llama 3.1 Community License Agreement." This is not a free software license and you should not use it, nor any software released under it. Not only does ...

This article was edited on January 18, 2025 to make it clear that this article was written by the board of the FSF, not the founders. The founders of the FSF, started the Free Software Foundation (FSF ...

Below is a message from our president, Geoffrey Knauth, reflecting on the FSF's mission to protect software users everywhere. Public discourse in 2024 included such themes as: Will democracies survive ...

Free software makes up the building blocks to so many things and is an important tool for building and sustaining a free society. You can use free software to build programs that work for you, combine ...

Can you believe that we've been demanding user freedom since 1985? Today, we're celebrating our thirty-ninth anniversary, the "lace year," which represents the intertwined nature and strength of our ...