❤️ Big thank you to @fosdem From "staff" to video team, volunteers taking care about the wardrobe, the food to volunteers cleaning toilets and many more! ♥️

❤️ Thanks to DevRoom organisers, fellow speakers, the booth teams, and all the visitors who contributed with great questions, discussions, and by creating the special #FOSDEM atmosphere of knowing you are not alone working for #softwarefreedom. ❤️ 👏

Back from #fosdem26 and fighting the post #fosdem blues with slowly beginning editing the recording of the @fsfe's #SoftwareFreedom #podcast that we did after our talk on #podcasting with free software tools, with @annabonnie and featuring the insightful @llas on the fight for mobile user freedom.

I LOVED to record this episode. So interesting and rare to get do it all in person!

Can't wait for you to hear it!

Thank you all for a great, fun FOSDEM!

Very much looking forward to our upcoming first live recording of the #SoftwareFreedom #podcast together with @llas at 14:00 CET (Europe/Brussels), UA4.218

Lucas will share his insights about "can the #DMA help to protect #FreeSoftware developers working with #AOSP?"

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/CFR7NJ-software_freedom_podcast_with_dr_lucas_lasota/

#FOSDEM #FOSDEM25 #FOSDEM2026 #fahrplan @fosdem

FOSDEM 2026 - Software Freedom Podcast with Dr. Lucas Lasota

In case you have been offline for the last few days, our team and volunteers are at #FOSDEM! !

If you are around come by at our booth, Building K second floor. Once you are there, check for the balloons 😉

We have new t-shirts, a lot of stickers, sock and more!!

#FreeSoftware #SoftwareFreedom

Software Bondage : Software Rape : Software Slavery

Software should empower users. Software should not abuse, spy on, or hobble users. This is SOFTWARE FREEDOM.

Some evil companies design software to wield power over users. This is SOFTWARE BONDAGE. It is analogous to literal bondage because the user is cornered, shackled or caged.

Some evil companies forcibly integrate user systems into the AI cloud panopticon so the system won't install or boot without the user being identified and tracked by the panopticon. This is SOFTWARE SLAVERY. It is analogous to literal slavery in that the user needs constant permission to use the system and can only use the system in a way that chiefly benefits the software slaver.

Some evil companies forcibly harvest user data and force users to store private data in compromising cloud settings where their privacy is violated and subject to even greater risk of violation. This is SOFTWARE RAPE. It is analagous to literal rape and denudes users of the privacy and security of their data.

When an evil company is doing evil with its software or hardware offerings these terms may be used to tell the truth about such evil actions.

#SoftwareFreedom #SoftwareBondage #SoftwareRape #SoftwareSlavery

For 25 years*, FSFE : fsfe: contributors have participated at #FOSDEM. Support our work for #SoftwareFreedom by helping us gain 25 new FSFE supporters at this year’s FOSDEM!

#FreeSoftware needs you!

https://fsfe.org/donate.html

*Yes, FOSDEM is our big bother, one year older than us 😀

Up next in the Legal & Policy Devroom at #FOSDEM: "CRA – Role of Free Software and Q&A" with our colleague @lexelas, Michael Schuster, and Tommaso Bernabo.

Don’t miss this discussion on how Free Software shapes the CRA and the chance to get your questions answered!

#FreeSoftware #SoftwareFreedom #CRA

Do not miss our live recording of the #SoftwareFreedom Podcast with Dr. @llas at @fosdem
Sunday, 1 February 2026 14:00 CET (Europe/Brussels), UA4.218

Lucas will share his insights about "can the #DMA help to protect #FreeSoftware developers working with #AOSP?"

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/CFR7NJ-software_freedom_podcast_with_dr_lucas_lasota/

#FOSDEM #FOSDEM25 #FOSDEM2026 #fahrplan @fosdem

FOSDEM 2026 - Software Freedom Podcast with Dr. Lucas Lasota

WE ARE HERE! 🎉
A train strike made getting to Brussels slightly challenging, but what’s life without a little adventure? 🚆😉

#FOSDEM has officially started! Our booth is already super busy (so busy it was impossible to snap a pic of our cool merch and stickers 😅), and one of our favourite devrooms, the Legal & Policy, is already in full swing!

Happy FOSDEM!!

#FreeSotware #SoftwareFreedom