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Welcome to libre

A comm dedicated to the fight for free software with an anti-capitalist perspective.

The struggle for libre computing cannot be disentangled from other forms of socialist reform. One must be willing to reject proprietary software as fiercely as they would reject capitalism. Luckily, we are not alone.

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Resources

Free Software, Free Society provides an excellent primer in the origins and theory around free software and the GNU Project, the pioneers of the Free Software Movement.
Switch to GNU/Linux! If you're still using Windows in $CURRENT_YEAR, flock to Linux Mint!; Apple Silicon users will want to check out Asahi Linux.

Rules

Be on topic: Posts should be about free software and other hacktivst struggles. Topics about general tech news should be in the technology comm or programming comm. That doesn't mean all posts have to be serious though, memes are welcome!
Avoid using misleading terms/speading misinformation: Here's a great article about what those words are. In short, try to avoid parroting common Techbro lingo and topics.
Avoid being confrontational: People are in different stages of liberating their computing, focus on informing rather than accusing. Debatebro nonsense is not tolerated.
All site-wide rules still apply

Artwork

Xenia was meant to be an alternative to Tux and was created (licensed under CC0) by Alan Mackey in 1996.
Comm icon (of Xenia the Linux mascot) was originally created by @ioletsgo
Comm banner is a close up of "Dorlotons Degooglisons" by David Revoy (CC-BY 4.0) for Framasoft

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Apr. 4 - State government of Schleswig-Holstein to switch to Linux and LibreOffice (blog.documentfoundation.org)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Critical support to Germany? lea-breakdown

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Doesn't some German municipality do this every couple of years? Switch to linux until MS bribes them and they go back to Windows.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I saw someone talking about how it failed in Munich, so maybe...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Microsoft pushed for standardized use of their OOXML which was needlessly complicated and purposefully full of bugs when run on LibreOffice so instead of telling the world to stop adopting Microsoft's shitty doc formats, Munich took the much easier option and followed the herd.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

or french! but maybe they actually stick with it? idk

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Not Germany, just this one federal state. But any successful transition to libre software is always welcome. Europe has a very active free software community (more than the US in some aspects) so a lot of initiatives like these happen more often.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Kerala, a state in India, uses a flavor of Ubuntu for computer education in high school. Got introduced to Linux, Firefox, Libreoffice, Supertuxkart, GIMP and much more because of that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Very cool!