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Europe’s digital public services should start with Free Software

The FSFE wants Free Software and Open Standards to become the starting point for European public…
Austria’s military moved to LibreOffice: sovereignty before savings

A migration of roughly 16,000 computers shows that open formats and control over infrastructure are becoming…
Apple lost an important EU battle over interoperability

The EU Court rejected Apple’s challenge to its Digital Markets Act obligations, confirming that interoperability is…
DID Resolution is advancing, but the open standard is not finished

The W3C is defining a shared method for resolving decentralised identifiers, but the current document remains…
Wikipedia and Creative Commons: 25 years of open knowledge infrastructure

Two pillars of the open internet mark a quarter-century as AI consumes shared knowledge faster than…
Akrites is building a shared defence for critical open-source software

The Linux Foundation is bringing companies, security experts, and maintainers together around a coordinated response to…
LibreLocal shows that Free Software lives through local communities

Forty-six gatherings on six continents are a reminder that software freedom is not only about code,…
Open development may improve profitability—but a community is not free labour

A study of 977 US technology firms links open-source development to a 4–5% gross-margin increase, with…