Freedom in Android is fading, but we can still reverse the course
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Android became the world’s most-used mobile system because it was Free Software. Step by step, Google is closing it. But we can change this.
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Android became the world’s most-used mobile system because it was Free Software. Step by step, Google is closing it. But we can change this.
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November brings us one the Free Software weekends we have all been waiting for. If you're passionate about Free Software, you know there is one place to be this month. Join us on 13 and 14 November at the South Tyrol Free Software Conference in Bolzano!
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The process to update European procurement rules has started. With the proposal for the Public Procurement Act, it is now up to the EU’s co-legislators to address its shortcomings to ensure that Europe can control its digital infrastructure.
The FSFE at ARTICLE 19's DMA Symposium "Digital Markets Act: from Solo Act to Orchestra" in Brussels,
Belgium
08:00 UTC 12. – 17:00 UTC
13 November 2026
Meeting of the Berlin group in Berlin, Germany
17:00 UTC – 19:00 UTC
12 November 2026
SFSCON'26 - 'European SFS Award 2026' in Bolzano, Italy
10:00 UTC – 10:15 UTC
13 November 2026
I believe Free Software needs a voice at the national as well as the EU level in politics: Software does not exist in an isolated bubble, it's heavily dependent on the ecosystem that it lives in. In my opinion Free Software as well as open standards are key to creating a society that provides equal access.
Isabel Drost-Fromm (Software Engineer and Member of the Apache Software Foundation)
I'm a supporter of the FSFE as I want to sustain their work to promote Free Software. As a person that uses computers quite heavily every day, I'm very concerned with the current trend of locking down computing which is taking control away from the users. This is increasingly problematic since people's lives are more and more dependent on computers for personal communications, managing finances, employment, etc. Free Software is a necessary requirement for retaining control over your computing.
What is the biggest benefit of Free Software? Freedom!