Free Software Foundation Europe is a charity that empowers users to control technology.
Software is deeply involved in all aspects of our lives. Free Software gives everybody the rights to use, understand, adapt, and share software. These rights help support other fundamental rights like freedom of speech, freedom of press, and privacy. Learn more...
Community
The first storytale about digital sovereignty is now also available to pre-order in Dutch. This effort involved a lot of work by our volunteer Nico Rikken and others. Be the first to get the book by buying it at the FOSDEM conference in Brussels in the weekend of 31 January or pre-order it online and help us to spread it widely. Read his story!
News
Our headline quotes a European Commission enforcement officer during a court hearing in a key case where the FSFE is intervening against Apple. As explained below, strategic litigation is one of many actions FSFE takes to protect Free Software. Our goal is simple: empowering people to control technology.
Software Freedom Podcast
Have you heard about this wonderful programming competition for teenagers from all over Europe? Haven't you? Join us to find out everything you need to know about "Youth Hacking 4 Freedom"!
SFP#43: It is Youth Hacking 4 Freedom!
2025-12-23
Meeting of the Berlin group in Berlin, Deutschland
17:00 – 19:00 UTC
08 January 2026
FOSDEM '26 - Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom in Brussels, Belgium
09:30 – 18:00 UTC
31 January 2026
FOSDEM '26 - Friendica - Hidden in plain sight since 2025, in Brussels, Belgium
17:00 – 17:10 UTC
31 January 2026
If software is licensed as free software, we can audit it, and be sure that it does what it's intended to do (and nothing else). Public institutions develop software, and hire companies to make it, and the citizens should own and reuse all that code. I contribute to Free Software with translations, user help desk, finding free software alternatives at the University... but I cannot reach the policy-makers, nor people and institutions in other countries.
Laura Arjona Reina (IT Assistant at Technical University of Madrid and Debian contributor)
I believe that Free Software can help us change our society fundamentally for the better and I believe the best way to do so is together with other volunteers from all over Europe!
Freedom is one of the core values of our Society and one of the basic concepts of Democracy. Supporting and spreading Free Software is one way to build creative alternatives for social inclusion and to protect our citizens from the digital exploitation. We are responsible to build a better World as a gift for our future generations.