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Ole Aamot's reason for being a #FSF associate member, freedom from digital capitalism, is but one of many great reasons to support #FreeSoftware: my.fsf.org/join

Aral Balkan

Having Microsoft organise a European Sovereign Tech Fund is like having Anheuser-Busch be your AA sponsor.

#EuropeanSovereignTechFund #microsoft #corporateCapture #openSource #freeSoftware #FOSS #institutionalCorruption #BigTech #EU

Pirate Praveen

Next version of #Debian - 13/#Trixie is releasing on 9th August. We have two release parties lined up in India - one in Delhi NCR and another in Hyderabad.
wiki.debian.org/ReleasePartyTr

Would you like to organize one near you? It is basically to hang out with other #FreeSoftware community members and sharing snacks or just talk. You can help new people with Debian installation too.

Eight years ago for #jessie release, we hosted 16 parties across Kerala ! wiki.debian.org/ReleasePartyJe Join and help beat it

ReleasePartyTrixie - Debian Wiki

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Aral Balkan

Since Microsoft is organising a European Sovereign Tech Fund, we should ask Lockheed Martin to put together a European Sovereign Defense Fund. There’s probably also opportunity here to bring Amazon in to advise on EU labour standards and have McDonald’s take the lead on food safety policy in the EU.

CC @EUCommission

#EU #USA #corporateCapture #europeanSovereignTechFund #microsoft #github #openSource #freeSoftware #tech #freedom #humanRights #democracy

Aral Balkan

We do need a European Sovereign Tech Fund, yes.

What we don’t need is Microsoft – a trillion-dollar surveillance capitalist from the US that peddles proprietary technology and is helping Israel carry out its genocide of the Palestinian people as we speak – having anything whatsoever to do with it.

#microsoft #github #europeanSovereignTechFund #openWashing #corporateCapture #EU #tech #openSource #freeSoftware #FOSS #israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #Palestine #Gaza #WestBank ohai.social/@senficon/11490411

Felix Reda (@senficon@ohai.social)

We need a European Sovereign Tech Fund! https://github.blog/open-source/maintainers/we-need-a-european-sovereign-tech-fund/

ohai.social
Jul 24, 2025, 05:59 · · · 1 · 1
Alexandre Dulaunoy

I was looking into rustfs as a potential replacement for our current Minio setup, but then I stumbled upon this. Criticizing other open-source solutions without valid arguments isn't helpful for the community.

And it doesn't inspire much trust in your project, even if it's great.

github.com/rustfs/rustfs

#opensource #freesoftware #minio #rustfs #community

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Interested in helping #FreeSoftware users find freedom-respecting programs by updating the Free Software Directory (FSD)? Please consider joining the FSD meeting this Friday on IRC. Read more at: fsf.org/events/fsd-2025-07-25- #FreeSoftwareDirectory #FSF

Digital Freedom Foundation

Are you good at arts & crafts? Help us brainstorm ideas for homemade swag for #SoftwareFreedomDay2025. Have a printer & mailing labels? You can create #SFD2025 stickers: digitalfreedoms.org/en/sfd/blo What about bookmarks, origami disk/USB holders or calligraphy projects? You could even make your own minizine with #FreeSoftware. What would you make?