Taxpayer money should benefit society! 💪 Public administrations rely on software to serve society. When that software is funded with public money, it should be #FreeSoftware Public Money? Public Code!

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Die Bilanz von Schwarz-Rot nach 100 Tagen ist enttäuschend: Das Vergabegesetz verpasst es, Tech-Souveränität durch Freie Software zu sichern. Beim „Deutschland-Stack“ fehlen EU-Abstimmung und Transparenz. Keine verlässliche, langfristige Finanzierung für Freie Software. „Public Money? Public Code!“ muss endlich zur Regel werden: Öffentlich finanzierte Software muss Freie Software sein! Die Zeit zu handeln ist jetzt! 👉

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100 Tage Schwarz-Rot: Die Freie-Software-Politik der Bundesregierung enttäuscht - FSFE

100 Tage nach Amtsantritt der Bundesregierung sieht die Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) ihre Forderung nach Freier Software in der öffentli...

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After 100 days in office, the German federal government falls short on #FreeSoftware: Draft procurement act fails to secure tech sovereignty by prioritising Free Software. The “Germany Stack” lacks EU coordination and transparency. No reliable long-term funding for Free Software in the budget. Make “Public Money? Public Code!” the rule: Software paid with public money must be Free Software! The time to act is now! 👉

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After 100 days: German government falls short on Free Software policy - FSFE

100 days after the German federal government took office, the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) sees its demand for Free Software in public ad...

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"An elegant if not joyful solution to helping children and their parents understand the fundamental concepts of the freedom of expression, creation, collaboration and individual contribution free and open source software represents." Deborah Bryant, Board Director Emeritus, Open Source Initiative #FreeSoftware #SoftwareFreedom

Help us :fsfe: to connect with representatives! Developed by the FSFE, MP Explore is a #FreeSoftware tool to help us reaching out to representatives in Parliaments across Europe. 🔥 We need your help! Contribute by adding your local, regional, and national parliament!

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Help the FSFE to connect with representatives - FSFE

Developed by the Free Software Foundation Europe, MP Explore is a Free Software tool to help us reaching out to representatives in Parliaments acro...

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🏦 💰 Taxpayer money should fund public goods. When governments invest in software, it should be #FreeSoftware: software that gives the rights to use, understand, adapt, and share. Sign the open letter to support this principle: 🔗

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📣 Is "disable" the same as "uninstall"? We do not believe it. Google does. Under the DMA, the FSFE with a coalition of civil-society organisations prompts the @European Commission to open proceedings to investigate Alphabet's (#Google) regarding the uninstallation of pre-installed apps in Android. Uninstalling is completely removing the app, not just disabling it! This is key for #DeviceNeutrality! 📎 📄.pdf #SoftwareFreedom #DMA

🎧 New episode 🎧 Listen to our latest episode of the Software Freedom Podcast about the AI act! 📻 https://fsfe.org/news/podcast/episode-36.en.html With the EU AI Act about to come into force, @npub1se9s...u735 and @npub14pqt...3wcr discuss the current debate surrounding it and shed light on the arguments. #SoftwareFreedom #FreeSoftware

Have you realized that all your Internet traffic, encryption, backups, communications, shopping, writing, business interactions, and so on, go through your router? 😟 Is your router free? If not, your digital freedom could be compromised. ✅ The good news: #RouterFreedom is secured by EU laws. ❌ The not so good ones: Router Freedom is still not a full reality in most of the EU countries.

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Router Freedom - FSFE

It should go without saying that in our society we should be able to freely choose technical devices for use in our homes like we are free to choos...

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Industry Committee vote: Technology sovereignty is only possible with Free Software The Industry committee of the European Parliament shows necessity and benefits of “open-source first” policy but report lacks concrete measures.

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Industry Committee vote: Technology sovereignty is only possible with Free Software - FSFE

Industry committee of the European Parliament shows necessity and benefits of “open-source first” policy but report lacks concrete measures....

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