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The initial injustice of proprietary software often leads to further injustices: malicious functionalities.

The introduction of unjust techniques in nonfree software, such as back doors, DRM, tethering, and others, has become ever more frequent. Nowadays, it is standard practice. [...]

In his speech at the University of Pisa on June 7, Richard Stallman
addressed the topic of machine learning systems (so-called "artificial intelligence") and answered the question of whether the training data should be released.

29:00 - 54:00 and 58:40 - 1:04:00 in the video.

Linux-libre turns 15!

Shared from <http://www.fsfla.org/anuncio/2023-02-Linux-libre-15>

It was February 2008 when Jeff Moe announced Linux-libre, a project to share the efforts that freedom-respecting distros had to undertake to drop the [...]

The GNU Education Team has published a new article by Richard Stallman on the threats of Big Tech in the field of education.

Many Governments Encourage Schools to Let Companies Snoop on Students

Human Rights Watch studied 164 software programs and web sites  recommended by various governments for schools to make students use.  It found [...]

The nonfree app Along, developed by a company controlled by Zuckerberg, leads students to reveal to their teacher personal information about themselves and their families. Conversations are recorded and the collected data sent to the company, which grants itself the right to sell it.