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❤️ Thank you to all hard working contributors who develop and maintain:

@archlinux
@centos
@debian
@elementary
@fedora
@FreeBSDFoundation
@gentoo
@linuxmint
@manjarolinux
@netbsd
@openbsdnow
@opensuse
@tails
@ubuntu

+ other distributions that provide the basis of today's digital infrastructure while allowing everyone to use, study, share, and improve them! #ilovefs ❤️

(Please help to thank those, for whom I did not find a #mastodon account 🙏)

I like the spontaneous nature of the #ILoveFS ❤️ meetups. Besides the great people of @HSN we got joined by @Scott_Trakker and @paolo from Luxembourg. We sent chat messages and post cards to the great people making #FreeSoftware possible! ❤️

💕 I Love Free Software Day 2026 💕

For this year’s I Love Free Software Day I am co-organising two special events, and I am super excited about them!

🧶 Knitting Our Internet at Snackbar Frieda, Rotterdam, on Friday Feb 13th at 18:00. All information here.
🛹 A reading of @kirschner’s Ada & Zangemann in English and in Dutch. After that, a conversation about Free Software maintenance as care work, together with @mayel from @Bonfire ❤️‍🔥 at the @internetarchiveeurope, Oudeschans 16, Amsterdam on Saturday Feb 14th at 14:00. All information here. Info about the super cool poster in the post below.

#FreeSoftware #SoftwareFreedom #ILoveFS #ILoveFreeSoftware #ILoveFS #IloveFS26 #ournet #KnittingOurInternet #SnackbarFrieda #Rotterdam #Amsterdam #InternetArchive #InternetArchiveEurope #AZbook #Ada #AdaZangemann #reading #event #decentralizaion #InternetHistory #Internet

On February 14, we celebrate I ❤️ Free Software Day!

https://Internet.nl is free/open source and is reused by a.o. 🇧🇷 https://top.nic.br and 🇩🇰 https://sikkerpånettet.dk. This is possible thanks to free/open source software we build upon, such as Python (@ThePSF) and @django.

We also use free/open source sw in our work environment, such as @nextcloud, @libreoffice, and Jitsi.

We try to give back through 💶 donations, ⁉️ feature requests and ⚙️ code.

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#ilovefs #freesoftware #opensource

💌 I love free software, the one that respects all users' essential freedoms.

Yay, everyone agrees? Not so much.

Let's stand for free software and not "open source", nor "FOSS", "FLOSS", or whatever people say trying to be neutral, or really missing the point.

#ILoveFreeSoftwareDay #ILoveFS #FreeSoftware #LibreSoftware #SoftwareLivre #SoftwareFreedom

#ilovefs

free software is a wonderful conceptual framework that enables users to have control over their digital lives, instead of being subjugated by others through the software they use

there's this one person who figured out the ethical, social and political problem with nonfree software, and showed us the path to freedom

it didn't make everyone happy, of course. those who wanted to keep their power and privilege first ignored him, then laughed at him, and then fought him in very very dirty ways.

a number of people fell for the lies used to attack him, and foolishly made the attacks against their own freedoms stronger.

others knew they were lies, but joined the lynching for personal advantage.

on this day of celebration of free software, I thank everyone who didn't join the lynching, and stood firm in defense of free software, even from these ad hominem attacks against our movement.

I also thank those who came to realize their error, publicly repented, and worked hard to undo the harm their error enabled.