Check out our views on Apple’s proposed “interoperability commitments” under the #DMCCA. Such commitments will deem interoperability ineffective, entrenching #Apple's monopolistic power in #UK.
📝 Our full submission to the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority: download.fsfe.org/campaigns/de...
🙌 Please help so that Google also understands it is not in its interest to jeopardise its own success in mobile by making Android unfriendly to developers who care about #softwarefreedom
#KeepAndroidOpen
🫵 What you can do
- Read and share the open letter: keepandroidopen.org/open-letter/
- If you are part of an organisation, join the signatories from across civil society, #FreeSoftware communities, and industry.
📢 What we ask Google:
- End mandatory developer registration for third‑party apps.
- Engage openly with civil society, #FreeSoftware groups, and regulators.
- Commit to platform neutrality so Google’s #Android stewardship doesn’t clash with its business interests.
❌️ It raises barriers for small and volunteer projects, like F-Droid, and increases the risk of surveillance, censorship, and arbitrary bans against privacy‑protecting and critical apps.
🧐 Google’s plan would mean that all personal data of #FreeSoftware app developers on Android would end up with Google, even apps distributed outside the Play Store, by forcing developers to register and hand over ID.
#KeepAndroidOpen
The FSFE signed an open letter addressed to Sundar Pichai, CEO of #Google, regarding Google's announced policy requiring all #Android app developers to register centrally with Google to distribute applications outside the Google Play Store.
keepandroidopen.org/open-letter/
We also submitted our position on #RouterFreedom to the @ec.europa.eu's consultation on the #DNA.
💻 Read it here: download.fsfe.org/policy/route...
For more than a decade, the Free Software Foundation Europe has worked to protect #RouterFreedom in Europe.
The European Union is about to reform the telecom sector with the proposed #DigitalNetworksAct.
We call for a clear and harmonised approach that upholds this freedom across all Member States
#DigitalNetworksAct: the FSFE calls for strong and consistent protection of #RouterFreedom across all Member States.
fsfe.org/news/2026/ne...
Celebrating I Love Free Software Day #IloveFS. A big thank you to #SUSE for helping support these #OpenSource #software events. #SUSECares fsfe.org/activities/i...
Two men stand in front of the Internet Archive Europe Headquarters in Amsterdam.
A woman and a man stand under an electric lit up heart. She holds and Internet Archive tote bag and he holds the book “Ada & the Zangemann”.
We are ready for I ❤️ Free Software Day #ilovefs in Amsterdam! Looking forward to a wonderful double event with FSFE and Bonfire. @tommi.space @mayel.bonfire.cafe.ap.brid.gy @fsfe.org
Happy I ❤️ Free Software Day! 🎉
✨ Huge thanks to all developers, contributors, maintainers & advocates who are behind the #FreeSoftware tools we use in our daily lives!
What is your favourite project? Do not forget so say #ThankYou!
fsfe.org/activities/i...
A sovereign stack requires #FreeSoftware. It’s not about where software is developed, but whether everyone may use, study, share, and improve it.
Our feedback on the second #DeutschlandStack consultation (German):
gitlab.opencode.de/dstack/d-sta...
#DigitalSovereignty #PublicCode #OpenSource
FSFE Newsletter 🚀
February reminds us why our #FreeSoftware community rocks! 🎊 After #FOSDEM, it's time for the #ilovefs day ❤️!
Catch up with our latest episodes of the #SoftwareFreedom Podcast 🎧 and a Legal Corner article
💻 fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-2...
Call for Proposals is OPEN! 🚀 We want YOUR ideas in Kraków! ✨
👉 Check it out: programme.europython.eu
⚖️ New Legal Corner Article ⚖️
We look at the Spanish ruling that sets a key precedent for transparency in source code and algorithms, supporting the Freedom to Study.
fsfe.org/news/2026/ne...
Thanks to @civio.es for their outstanding work!
#SoftwareFreedom #FreeSoftware #transparency
We will monitor how the @ec.europa.eu implements the #DMA #interoperability rules further, ensuring DMA enforcement is #FreeSoftware friendly.
The @ec.europa.eu decision is a sign of progress in enforcing #interoperability obligations.
Taken together, such regulatory procedures should make interoperability effective, so #FreeSoftware developers have a chance to participate and innovate in digital markets.
This autumn, we took part in a soon-to-be-published study regarding #Google’s control over #interoperability in #AOSP.
In particular, the study focused on how the company's limiting access to critical interoperability can hinder Free Software projects.
www.techpolicy.press/making-the-d...
In June, at the workshop on #Google's #DMA compliance, we raised issues related to #interoperability.
Similar problems #FreeSoftware developers are facing with #Apple, like discretionary power to deny interoperability, lack of transparency, and anti-competitive practices.
fsfe.org/news/2025/ne...
Today, @ec.europa.eu opened a process under the #DMA to regulate how #Google handles #interoperability within #Android.
The FSFE has been working intensively over the last two years to improve DMA interoperability against gatekeepers like #Apple and Google.
ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
🚨 Ada pre-order alert!
Want to read the insightful story of "Ada & Zangemann" in Dutch? Thanks to the awesome work of our volunteer Nico Rikken you can pre-order the book now!
Read the story here: fsfe.org/news/2026/ne...
Do not forget to pre-order it ! You can pick it up at #fosdem
Warum ich immer noch finde, dass #DigitaleSouveränität der falsche Begriff ist.
Mit dabei: Bonnie Mehring von der @fsfe.org, Sven Neuhaus (ZenDiS) und moderiert hat Keywan Tonekaboni von der c't.
The implementation of the EU #CRA is currently underway but several questions remain open, especially regarding its implications for the #FreeSoftware landscape.
We gained insights within the @bsi.bund.de project ‘Dialogue for Cybersecurity’
Read more: fsfe.org/news/2025/ne...
#SoftwareFreedom
🎉 Das war der Open-Source-Workshop zum Deutschland-Stack im Digitalministerium!
💬 Wir haben darüber diskutiert, wie der Deutschland-Stack mit Open Source zu einem Erfolg wird.
Hier findet Ihr den Bericht ➡️ osb-alliance.de/verbands-new...
#OpenSource #DeutschlandStack
Gerade erschienen: FSFE Policy Project Manager @johasjaguar.bsky.social spricht im @engineeringkiosk.dev ausführlich über #PublicCode im deutschsprachigen Raum.
📻 Die Episode könnt ihr hier hören: engineeringkiosk.dev/podcast/epis...
#FreieSoftware #OpenSource
🔥 FOSDEM Legal and Policy DevRoom - Call For Participation
📝 Contribute to our DevRoom:
🔹25 or 50 minutes talks or panels
🔸 #FOSS related legal or policy topics on intermediate to advanced level
💻 pretalx.fosdem.org/fosdem-2026/
📆 Deadline: December 7, 2025.
#fosdem #FreeSoftware
Template for the quotes about Ada book. On the right you can see a photo of Brewster Kahle, on the right Ada's illustration with the skateboard and on the middle the quote.
"Curiosity and the Freedom to tinker naturally explains FOSS in this light hearted children’s story. Why not have our ice cream machines that make every flavor and shape? Bravo Matthias & Sandra for your excellent work"
-@brewster.kahle.org Founder @archive.org & @internetarchive.eu
ada.fsfe.org
🚀 Registrations for the 2026 edition of #YH4F are OPEN! 🎉
yh4f.org/register
If you’re a young European who knows how to code or is just starting to, this is for you!
💡 Build a project with #FreeSoftware
🤝 Meet other participants
🏆️ Win cash prizes!
📢 Spread the word and don’t forget to apply!
