Working together for free software
Free software is simply software that respects our freedom — our freedom to learn and understand the software we are using. Free software is designed to free the user from restrictions put in place by proprietary software, and so using free software lets you join a global community of people who are making the political and ethical choice assertion of our rights to learn and to share what we learn with others.
The GNU Operating System
The GNU operating system is a complete operating system made entirely of free software. Millions of people are using GNU every day to edit their documents, browse the web, play games, and handle their email, or as part of a GNU/Linux system on their home computer. Even people who have never heard of it use GNU everyday, because it powers many of the sites they visit and services they use. Learn more about GNU, and support progress on fully free operating systems by volunteering.
DefectiveByDesign.org
Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) robs us of control over the technology we use and the culture we live in. DRM and the DMCA
can make it illegal to share an article, back-up your kids' favorite
DVD, or move your music from one player to another. Since DRM is
inherently incompatible with free software, it also excludes free
software users from equal participation in culture. DefectiveByDesign.org
is our anti-DRM campaign, where we mobilize large vocal communities to
reject products from businesses that insist on using to DRM to control
their customers. Learn more at DefectiveByDesign.org.Windows 7 Sins
Microsoft
Windows has hundreds of millions of people locked-in to proprietary
software. It exemplifies some of proprietary software's most serious
problems, like security and privacy. Windows 7 Sins
makes the case against Microsoft and proprietary software, in response
to the latest release of Microsoft Windows. Find out more about Windows 7 Sins.PlayOgg
The PlayOgg campaign (playogg.org)
promotes the use of free audio and video formats unencumbered by patent
restrictions, rather than MP3, QuickTime, Windows Media,
and AAC, whose patent problems threaten free software and hinder
progress. We also
promote the use of the new "video tag" standard as an alternative to
Adobe Flash for embedding audio and video in webpages. Find out more about PlayOgg at playogg.org. You can also join the PlayOgg volunteer team to push companies and services to use Ogg by joining the mailing list.End Software Patents
Software
patents create a legal nightmare for all software developers and pose
particular problems for the free software movement. So as the Free Software Foundation
campaigns for formats that are free of software patents, we also work on
the more fundamental task of ending software patents entirely, through
legal and legislative action. Learn more at EndSoftPatents.org.Campaign for Hardware that Supports Free Software
Hardware manufacturers are often negligent in offering support for free software. Our hardware directory
helps people identify hardware to buy that works with their free
software operating system. It is also an important part of the Free OS Foundation
ongoing work to persuade hardware vendors to respect free software
users.Free BIOS Campaign
Our campaign for a Free BIOS
protects your rights by giving you freedom at the lowest level (if the
BIOS is not free, manufacturers can use it to interfere with your
control over the computer you use, for example). One piece of this
campaign is Coreboot, a free software project aimed at replacing the
proprietary BIOS (firmware) you can find in most of today's
computers. Visit coreboot.org to
learn more about the development of Coreboot, supported systems, and how
you can get started running a free BIOS. For more, join the Coreboot mailing list. The FSF is also pushing for the creation of a laptop with a free BIOS.NOTE: These campaigns are created, and ran by the FSF. We support these campaigns as listed above.
All rights go to the FSF.
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