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Technology through the lens of digital freedom
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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 digital services—not merely another option in a procurement checklist.
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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 strategic concerns, not merely budget choices.
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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 not a voluntary platform feature.
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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 a Working Draft rather than a finished standard.
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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 it returns value to the communities maintaining it.
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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 vulnerabilities in critical software infrastructure.
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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, but also about people sharing knowledge locally.
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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 important limits that change how the finding should…
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