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The Free Software Foundation (FSF) turns forty on October 4, 2025. The Free Software Foundation will have then been defending the rights of all software users for the past 40 years. The long term goal is for all users have the freedom to run, edit, contribute to, and share software.
There will be an online event, with an in-person option for those that can get to Boston. In November there will also be a hackathon.
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Forty Years of Commitment to Software Freedom
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by crm114 on Tuesday September 30, @06:11PM
> This would have been an interesting poll idea: Are you older or younger than the FSF?
> Another idea: Whats the story of the first FSF software you used?
Great ideas!
For me, I'm older than FSF, and have been in software development longer than FSF
However
My intro to FSF was around 1993/94 - when I installed the SLS Linux distro [to build an SMTP mail server, to connect all our PMAIL clients on different Novell network spokes together. Remember those days?!].
SLS included a bunch of FSF utilities (including, as another poster mentioned, something that could generate PDFs, for the office LaserJet)
It was also my introduction to IPv4 and TCP/IP.