{"id":6983,"date":"2016-02-14T08:54:22","date_gmt":"2016-02-14T08:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=6983"},"modified":"2016-02-14T08:54:23","modified_gmt":"2016-02-14T08:54:23","slug":"love-free-software-on-valentines-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=6983","title":{"rendered":"Love free software on Valentine&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s 14th February, better known to the world as <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Valentine%27s_Day\">St. Valentine&#8217;s Day<\/a>. It&#8217;s therefore also time to say &#8220;thank you&#8221; to all free software users and developers on what&#8217;s also become the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/ilovefs.org\/\">I love FreeSoftware Day<\/a>&#8220;, according to the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE). <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2016\/02\/ilovefs.png\" alt=\"I Love Free Software banner\" width=\"350\" height=\"109\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6984\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2016\/02\/ilovefs.png 350w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2016\/02\/ilovefs-300x93.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/fsfe.org\/news\/2015\/news-20150303-01.en.html\">FSFE is asking all free software users<\/a> to use the traditional day of love to think of the hard-working people contributing to the free software we all depend on.<\/p>\n<p>Free software drives a huge number of devices in our everyday life. It ensures our freedom, our security, civil rights, and privacy. It enables everyone to participate in a fair society. However, everyone is different and people have different reasons to love free software.<\/p>\n<p>Your &#8216;umble scribe relies on free software to play an active part in society and do his work. He&#8217;d therefore like to pay thanks to the following people:<\/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 the world 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>If you use free software too, why don&#8217;t you 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 hashtag<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s 14th February, better known to the world as St. Valentine&#8217;s Day. It&#8217;s therefore also time to say &#8220;thank you&#8221; to all free software users and developers on what&#8217;s also become the &#8220;I love FreeSoftware Day&#8220;, according to the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE). The FSFE is asking all free software users to use the [&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":[19,12,23],"class_list":["post-6983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux-and-os-matters","category-open-source-software","category-tech","tag-free-software","tag-open-source","tag-tech-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6983","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=6983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6985,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6983\/revisions\/6985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}