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Way back in 2001, the prescient souls who established the Free Software Foundation Europe foresaw that people should be in control of technology and not vice versa.<\/p>\r\nWay back in 2001, the prescient souls who established the Free Software Foundation Europe foresaw that people should be in control of technology and not vice versa.<\/p>\r\n
Twenty years down the road the FSFE is concentrating its daily work on three main pillars<\/a> to help software freedom thrive in Europe: public awareness, policy advocacy, and legal support.<\/p>\r\n The FSFE has had some major campaign successes over its 2 decades.<\/p>\r\n For instance there was the campaign to promote free software PDF readers<\/a>, which encouraged over 2,000 European public sector organisations to remove links for Adobe’s proprietary Acrobat reader from their websites.\r\n<\/p> A major current FSFE campaign is Public Money, Public Code<\/a>, an initiative to ensure that publicly financed software developed for the public sector be made publicly available under a Free and Open Source Software licence. If it is public money, it should be public code as well. Code paid by the people should be available to the people!<\/p>\r\n Finally here’s FSFE President Matthias Kirschner speaking to the openSUSE<\/a> Virtual Conference 2021 about two decades of the FSFE.<\/p> \r\n![\"FSFE](\"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2021\/07\/fsfe_20.jpg\")
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