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FSF is working on freedom in machine learning applications. BOSTON (October 22, 2024) -- The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has announced today that it is working on a statement of criteria for free machine learning applications, which will require the software, as well as the raw training data and associated scripts, to grant users the four freedoms.
What is free software? — Free Software Foundation — Working …
Dec 29, 2009 · Free software is software that respects our freedom. To use free software is to make a political and ethical choice asserting our rights to learn and to share what we learn with others. Usually software we buy denies us these rights, because we don't actually buy ownership of the software. Instead, we receive a license to use the software, and ...
Alyssa Rosenzweig, who spearheaded the reverse-engineering of …
Mar 27, 2024 · BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA -- March 27, 2024 -- The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today announced Alyssa Rosenzweig, who reverse-engineered Apple's current line of graphics processing units (GPU), as keynote speaker for LibrePlanet 2024.
Executive director Zoë Kooyman speaks on free software being the …
Oct 10, 2024 · Take a break from your Thursday and catch our executive director Zoë Kooyman speaking on The Tech We Want Online Summit (TWWOS) panel "We are Making the Tech We Want." Zoë will be covering the progress of free/libre software and strategies to advocate for a just technological landscape.
What is OpenDocument? - Free Software Foundation
Nov 14, 2011 · The OpenDocument format (ODF) is a free, ISO-standardized format for documents (.odt file extension), spreadsheets (.ods), presentations (.odp) and more. Used widely throughout the world, ODF is supported by a variety of programs, including the free LibreOffice suite and OpenOffice.org. Users can read and write OpenDocument files without ...
Free Software Directory meeting on IRC: Friday, November 8, …
Oct 29, 2024 · Help improve the Free Software Directory (FSD), a catalog of useful free software that runs under free GNU-like systems (not limited to the GNU operating system and its GNU/Linux variants) and a project of the Free Software Foundation (FSF), by adding new entries and updating existing ones. Every Friday, we meet on IRC in the #fsf channel on Libera.Chat.
CC BY 4.0 and CC BY-SA 4.0 added to our list of free licenses
Feb 13, 2015 · We have updated our list of Various Licenses and Comments about Them to include the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0) and the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license (CC BY-SA 4.0). Both of these licenses are free licenses for works of practical use besides software and documentation. CC BY 4.0 is a noncopyleft license that is ...
Free Software Foundation Releases GNU Affero General Public …
Nov 19, 2007 · BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA—Monday, November 19, 2007—The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today published the GNU Affero General Public License version 3 (GNU AGPLv3).
Free Software Foundation to serve on "artificial intelligence" safety ...
Oct 8, 2024 · The consortium involves representatives from more than 600 different institutions, including institutions commonly criticized by the FSF such as Meta, Amazon, and Google.Realizing that it is an environment hostile to software freedom, the FSF will do its utmost to urge the consortium and its individual task force …
Life's better together when you avoid Windows 11
Oct 5, 2021 · Read this page in Spanish and German. October 5 marks the official release of Windows 11, a new version of the operating system that doesn't do anything at all to counteract Windows' long history of depriving users of freedom and digital autonomy. While we might have been encouraged by Microsoft's vague, aspirational slogans about community and togetherness, Windows 11 takes important steps in ...