{"id":5563,"date":"2015-02-14T08:30:52","date_gmt":"2015-02-14T08:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=5563"},"modified":"2015-02-14T08:42:50","modified_gmt":"2015-02-14T08:42:50","slug":"free-software-is-my-valentine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=5563","title":{"rendered":"Free software is my Valentine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is 14th February. Most people know this as <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Valentine%27s_Day\">Saint Valentine&#8217;s Day<\/a>, when florists are overworked and restaurants overcharge. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>However, every year <a href=\"https:\/\/fsfe.org\/news\/2015\/news-20150209-01.en.html\">14th February is also I Love Free Software Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the day when free software users are encouraged to say thank you to the people that produce the great software that millions of people and businesses use and rely upon every other day of the year.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3644\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3644\" style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3644\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2014\/02\/ilovefs-button-large.png\" alt=\"I love free software campaign banner\" width=\"350\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2014\/02\/ilovefs-button-large.png 350w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2014\/02\/ilovefs-button-large-300x282.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3644\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Do you love free software too? Show it!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I&#8217;d therefore like to express my love for free software and say thank you to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/stallman.org\/\">Richard Stallman<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Linus_Torvalds\">Linus Torvalds<\/a> for giving us the GNU\/Linux operating system;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.documentfoundation.org\/\">The Document Foundation<\/a> for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.libreoffice.org\/\">LibreOffice<\/a>, the best free office productivity suite;<\/li>\n<li>the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gimp.org\/\">Gimp<\/a> team for a great graphics package;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/en-US\/\">Mozilla<\/a> for the Firefox browser;<\/li>\n<li>the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.torproject.org\/\">Tor Project<\/a> for secure internet browsing;<\/li>\n<li>the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.videolan.org\/\">VideoLAN<\/a> team for the VLC media player;<\/li>\n<li>the <a href=\"https:\/\/fsf.org\/\">Free Software Foundation<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/fsfe.org\/\">Free Software Foundation Europe<\/a> for their advocacy work; and<\/li>\n<li>all the other free software developers and package maintainers who are too numerous to mention.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Along with the rest of the world, I&#8217;m indebted to you all.<\/p>\n<p>If you use free software too, support this annual campaign, which can be followed on social media with the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23ilovefs&amp;src=tyah\">#ilovefs<\/a> hashtag.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is 14th February. Most people know this as Saint Valentine&#8217;s Day, when florists are overworked and restaurants overcharge. \ud83d\ude09 However, every year 14th February is also I Love Free Software Day. It&#8217;s the day when free software users are encouraged to say thank you to the people that produce the great software that millions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,9],"tags":[19,22,23],"class_list":["post-5563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux-and-os-matters","category-open-source-software","category-tech","tag-free-software","tag-language","tag-tech-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5563"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5581,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5563\/revisions\/5581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}