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For announcements of most new GNU releases, subscribe to the info-gnu mailing list: https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu. This month, we welcome Sean ...

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As 2025, the FSF's fortieth anniversary year, draws to a close, Ian Kelling, president of the Free Software Foundation, offers his reflections on why you should become an FSF associate member.

BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA (December 29, 2025) — The Free Software Foundation (FSF) announced today that Eko K. A. Owen will follow in Ian Kelling's footsteps by becoming the second union ...

For individual-donor acknowledgements, see ThankGNUs. Through corporate patronage, companies and other organizations can support the FSF in its mission to defend and protect computer users' rights. In ...

Free software only exists through the hard work of countless people. Every single free software program was built on and lives through community efforts, whether it be a few individuals or millions of ...

These extraordinary donations, both made to the FSF in the cryptocurrency Monero, are among some of the largest private gifts ever made to the organization. The donors wish to remain anonymous. "These ...

For many centuries around the world, winter has been a time for telling cautionary tales of the world's cruelty and the consequences of bad behavior. While the existence of such dangerous figures as ...