What are the responsibilities and liabilities of #FreeSoftware developers?
🚨 A potential threat to Free Software developers looms in the form of an ongoing lawsuit in the UK involving Bitcoin and its core developers.

https://fsfe.org/news/2024/news-20240417-01.html

#SoftwareFreedom #Bitcoin #BitcoinCase

📰 Good news!

The Digital Markets Act comes into effect today: #DeviceNeutrality starts to become a tangible reality in the EU 🇪🇺!

We acknowledge the #DMA, but this is only the first step, and further commitment is necessary!

#SoftwareFreedom

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https://fsfe.org/news/2024/news-20240307-01.html

As the Digital Markets Act comes into effect today, Device Neutrality starts to become a tangible reality in the EU, says @fsfe. But it's only the first step and further commitment is necessary. FSFE launched https://deviceneutrality.org/ to raise public awareness about #DeviceNeutrality. Taking control of digital devices is a matter of freedom and #FreeSoftware is key to that.
Read all about the #DMA and FSFE's next steps
https://fsfe.org/news/2024/news-20240307-01.en.html

CC: @EC_NGI

The DMA hasn't changed Big Tech's anticompetitive DNA, says Free Software Foundation Europe

Advocacy group wants more changes, starting with Device Neutrality On Thursday, Europe's Digital Markets Act (DMA) came into force, requiring large gatekeepers companies to play nice with smaller rivals.…
#theregister #IT
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/03/07/the_dma_is_not_enough/

Are you forced by your #bank to use proprietary #apps? Have a look at background shared on the @fsfe 's discussion list by @floriansnow from a #FreeSoftware angle:

https://lists.fsfe.org/pipermail/discussion/2024-February/013383.html

Florian's questions:

* What's your experience with your bank?
* How do you do your #banking?
* Is there an important angle that I missed?

In collaboration with @fdroidorg, the @fsfe prepared a study for the Japanese Competition Authority HDMC on how Apple's plans to comply with the #DMA represent a risk for #FreeSoftware and #DeviceNeutrality.

Key recommendations: 👇
- Full and unfettered side-loading
- No distribution via DRM encryption
- No residency or credit requirements for
3rd party app stores
- No interoperability request forms
- More competition on trustworthiness

https://download.fsfe.org/device-neutrality/fsfe-apple-report-final.pdf

Adblockers are legal, German courts ruled. Their argument: users not only have the right to receive information but also to refuse it.
That sounds about right. It'd be positively dystopian if companies can claim the right to force-feed information. A win for internet user freedom :).
One of the downsides of the ruling is that a company can exclude users with an activated adblocker from accessing its website.
@fsfe wrote an interesting article about the case
https://fsfe.org/news/2023/news-20231220-01.en.html

We are all haunted by sometimes intrusive, ⚠️ obnoxious, and omnipresent 🤯 ads on many of the websites we visit. Luckily, #adBlockers exist, but is it legal to for us use them? 🤔

ℹ️ In this article, we try to answer this question !

#SoftwareFreedom

https://fsfe.org/news/2023/news-20231220-01.html