Notices by Matthias Kirschner (kirschner@mastodon.social)

After previously pushing #Neo4j to correct their abuse of the #AGPL our sister organisation the @fsf now submitted an amicus brief to defend #softwarefreedom . The #GNU licenses were designed to empower users and it is important that we as #FreeSoftware community make sure this is understood.

https://www.fsf.org/news/fsf-submits-amicus-brief-in-neo4j-v-suhy

❤️ Thank you to all the volunteers and employees at @conservancy and our sister organisation the @fsf for relentlessly working for #SoftwareFreedom , for protecting the values of our movement, and for knowing you will do so for the next decades to come. ❤️

❤️ During lunch break my @fsfe co-workers @epiric @sofiaritz , Francesca, and myself played some rounds of #Supertuxkart . It was awesome. Will do that in bigger @fsfe team rounds in future. Big thank you to the Supertuxkart team for developing such a fun game! #ilovefs ❤️

I say that almost every year. But I love the time the @fsfe website https://fsfe.org turns red for #ilovefs

❤️ With all the installations on #GNU/#Linux (servers, vms, desktop, ... ), #BSD and #Unix systems, #MacOS, #Microsoft #Windows and WLS) I feel comfortable to claim there or way more than 1 billion installations of Vi*; often without people knowing about it.❤️

❤️ Thank you Bram Moolenaar, Christian Brabandt, the whole #Vim community, and all the people from projects like #NeoVIM, #Nvi, #Busybox #Vi, who develop and maintain their #vim flavour. ❤️

https://k7r.eu/thank-you-for-the-editor-of-the-beast/ ❤️ #ilovefs ❤️

I short reminder for everyone here who has not yet marked it in their calendars: please do not forget to thank other contributors in the movement for #softwarefreedom this Friday for "I love #FreeSoftware day"

❤️❤️❤️❤️ https://fsfe.org/activities/ilovefs/ ❤️❤️❤️❤️

(Best is to add a recurring yearly reminder in your calendar.)

Happy to have 3 talks about the Cyber Resilience Act #CRA in the legal and policy devroom, which I co-organise for #FOSDEM

* The EU CRA and #Copyleft
https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-5291-the-eu-cra-and-copyleft/

* Legislative overlay: anticipating and navigating through regulatory vectors https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-5325-legislative-overlay-anticipating-and-navigating-through-regulatory-vectors/

* CRA Q&A on #OpenSource Stewards under the Cyber Resilience Act https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-6638-cra-q-a-on-open-source-stewards-under-the-cyber-resilience-act/

@fsfe Hope to see many of you there!

Have not yet finished the todo list for 2025 😉 Could you please help today, so the last task is fixed 🙏

[x] Litigation against #Apple in front of the European Court of Justice
[x] Produce and watch the "Ada & #Zangemann - A Tale of Software, Skateboards, and Raspberry Ice Cream" movie with >700 children
[x] Raise awareness about the EU's cut in funding for #FreeSoftware #OpenSource
[ ] Convince 10 of my #fediverse followers in December to become @fsfe Supporter https://fsfe.org/support

@nixCraft
Thank you 😃
@fsfe @llas

#Apple is really mad at the @fsfe . When I read Apple's response (not public) to our submission ( https://download.fsfe.org/device-neutrality/fsfe-Intervention-apple-vs-commission-Sep-24-redacted.pdf ) I was so proud of @llas +Jithendra +Martin and the whole team @fsfe who work on this, making a positive impact for #FreeSoftware #OpenSource on mobile phones https://fsfe.org/activities/apple-litigation/apple-litigation.en.html

Yesterday was one of the greatest day in my life. Together with over 800 children and @fsfe guests we had the German premiere of the movie "Ada & #Zangemann - A Tale of Software, Skateboards, and Raspberry Ice Cream". Thank you so much to all who made this possible (see the credits).

The different sources for the movie are listed: https://ada.fsfe.org/movie
A first selection of pictures from the premiere: https://pics.fsfe.org/gallery/5Tcc_rbuFkkT5FWB9xd3jSAK

Please help to spread the movie with https://sharepic.fsfe.org/#ada

Ready for tomorrow's German "Ada & #Zangemann - A Tale of Software, Skateboards, and Raspberry Ice Cream" movie premiere. 😀

🤗 We got a donation of 650€ from a great couple who asked the guests of their birthday party to put donations in this piggy bank (the one on the picture) instead of presents for them, as they consider our work for society crucial.

A big thank you to them! 👏👏👏👏 https://fsfe.org/support

The official part of #SFScon is now over for our team at the @fsfe and allies . So proud of being part of this great team with @llas @pjitendra Ana, Henrik, myself, @johas , Francesca, Reinhard, Bradley, Dario, @tommi Henning, Alex, Marta, Florian, @lnceballos Thomas, @Tobias and Erika. 👏👏👏👏

It was a huge honour for me today with Raphael to posthumously hand over the European #SFSAward 2024 to #vim developer Bram Moolenaar for his invaluable contributions to the #FreeSoftware community.

If you are a #vim user, have been an #vim user, or admire Bram's work, please boost this message.

https://fsfe.org/news/2024/news-20241108-01.html

Received a couple of paintings of inventions by a school class that watched @fsfe's movie "Ada & #Zangemann - A Tale of Software, Skateboards, and Raspberry Ice Cream" with their teacher 🥰 https://ada.fsfe.org/movie

Celebration here at the #LibreOffice conference 2024. Happy birthday @libreoffice

Was an honour to present the @fsfe 's work for #softwarefreedom at #libreoffice Conference 24. (slides uploaded to https://events.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice-conference-2024/talk/EHUL3Y/ )

Thanks to all the @libreoffice contributors out there 👏

Looking forward to attend the #LibreOffice Conference 2024 in Luxembourg next week.

Hope to see many of you there with the rest of the @libreoffice community , and maybe also joining me in my talk: The long way to #softwarefreedom https://events.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice-conference-2024/talk/EHUL3Y/