📝 Read more in our full submission:

https://download.fsfe.org/campaigns/device-neutrality/2026-03-FSFE-CMA-DMCCA-interop.pdf

#FreeSoftware #OpenSource #DMCCA #UK #CMA #DigitalMarkets #DMA #DeviceNeutrality

❗ The voluntary commitments proposed by #Apple won’t fix this.

The #UK Competition and Markets Authority must mandate interoperability by default, ensuring all developers, including #FreeSoftware #OpenSource ones, get equal access to Apple’s OS (#iOS) and hardware features.

Ayy #veritasium vid about #freeSoftware and #linux just dropped

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoag03mSuXQ

RE: https://mstdn.social/@hkrn/116144303806412461

Filing this under "Capitalists do capitalism and they do not care about anything beyond profit and growth."

They don't care about the climate, your creativity, your privacy, your humanity, your rights, equality, etc. It's all marketing and they'll drop it the second it benefits their profit.

Begin your move to #FreeSoftware #FOSS. Don't feed their growth machine.

#Boycott #Apple #Google #Amazon #Microsoft #Tech #Technology #BigTech #Technofascism #Fascism #GeneralStrike #Degrowth #Socialism

Do you care about Free software and mobile devices (particularly Android)?

Do you want to help drive and sustain the @fdroidorg project?

Why not volunteer to join the board of F-Droid for a couple of years, and make a personal difference!

Nominations are open, closing 16 March.

https://f-droid.org/en/2026/02/26/board-of-directors-nominations.html

#FOSS #FreeSoftware #Android #FDroid

RE: https://mstdn.social/@hkrn/116144303806412461

Filing this under "Capitalists do capitalism and they do not care about anything beyond profit and growth."

They don't care about the climate, your creativity, your privacy, your humanity, your rights, equality, etc. It's all marketing and they'll drop it the second it benefits their profit.

Begin your move to #FreeSoftware #FOSS. Don't feed their growth machine.

#Boycott #Apple #Google #Amazon #Microsoft #Tech #Technology #BigTech #Technofascism #Fascism #GeneralStrike #Degrowth #Socialism

Do you care about Free software and mobile devices (particularly Android)?

Do you want to help drive and sustain the @fdroidorg project?

Why not volunteer to join the board of F-Droid for a couple of years, and make a personal difference!

Nominations are open, closing 16 March.

https://f-droid.org/en/2026/02/26/board-of-directors-nominations.html

#FOSS #FreeSoftware #Android #FDroid

Ayy #veritasium vid about #freeSoftware and #linux just dropped

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoag03mSuXQ

Let's zoom in on a particular area of the commons: the #FreeSoftware movement and their #FOSS deliverables, where a strong #WorkingInPublic credo dominates. The noble focus is on offering open technologies, software and systems. But in their quest to uphold #SoftwareFreedom the overlooked aspect is #sustainability. The ability to not only sustain oneself, but also by extension the creative #commons one is part of. The commons is an entirely chaotic grassroots environment with very specific social dynamics that are not properly accounted for. Instead top-down "herding of cats" governance models that work in regular business environments, are attempted. These may work, but only in small organizational settings, and NOT at scale where they break down.

FOSS in this definition is NOT commons-based. For that we need #ChaordicCommons where FOSS is the deliverable and #SOSS initiatives the engines of delivery, #FSDL (Free software development lifecycle) supply chains.

https://coding.social/blog/reimagine-social/#sustainable-open-social-systems

#LibreOffice 26.2.1 is here – the first minor update to our newest stable branch: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/02/26/tdf-releases-libreoffice-2621/ #foss #opensource #freesoftware

I posted on this notion of #SOSS before, with a meme attached..

https://social.coop/@smallcircles/115399465970544831

There's nothing wrong with #FOSS, but it only provides part of the solution as long as the #Sustainability angle is not given due attention to.

Esp. with disruptive inhumanely introduced #AI #LLM technologies, new major threats to the #FreeSoftware community are surfacing, and giving attention to this subject matter is more important than ever.

#SX #SocialCoding

Let's zoom in on a particular area of the commons: the #FreeSoftware movement and their #FOSS deliverables, where a strong #WorkingInPublic credo dominates. The noble focus is on offering open technologies, software and systems. But in their quest to uphold #SoftwareFreedom the overlooked aspect is #sustainability. The ability to not only sustain oneself, but also by extension the creative #commons one is part of. The commons is an entirely chaotic grassroots environment with very specific social dynamics that are not properly accounted for. Instead top-down "herding of cats" governance models that work in regular business environments, are attempted. These may work, but only in small organizational settings, and NOT at scale where they break down.

FOSS in this definition is NOT commons-based. For that we need #ChaordicCommons where FOSS is the deliverable and #SOSS initiatives the engines of delivery, #FSDL (Free software development lifecycle) supply chains.

https://coding.social/blog/reimagine-social/#sustainable-open-social-systems

New in #LibreOffice 26.2: Writer now displays a more visible grid, and the Snap to Grid functionality now accurately aligns objects with the grid. https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/26.2#Writer #foss #opensource #freesoftware

GenAI reaches another unexpected corner of #FreeSoftware: the #Hurd
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2026-02/msg00133.html

GenAI reaches another unexpected corner of #FreeSoftware: the #Hurd
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2026-02/msg00133.html

🫵 What you can do

- Read and share the open letter: https://keepandroidopen.org/open-letter/

- If you are part of an organisation, join the signatories from across civil society, #FreeSoftware communities, and industry.

- 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 we ask from #Google:

- Rescind mandatory developer registration for all third‑party distribution.

- Engage in transparent dialogue with civil society, #FreeSoftware communities, and regulators on improving security without sacrificing openness.

- Commit to platform neutrality so that Google’s role as Android steward does not conflict with its commercial interests.

🧐 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.

❌️ It raises barriers for small and volunteer projects, like @fdroidorg, and increases the risk of surveillance, censorship, and arbitrary bans against privacy‑protecting and critical apps.

Improvements are coming to LibreOffice's hyperlink dialog box, thanks to Siddhi Salunkhe and the Outreachy programme: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/02/25/hyperlink-dialog-improvements-from-siddhi-salunkhe/ #foss #openSource #freesoftware