I'm very glad to see farmers win the right to repair their tractors. It's a win for consumers against bogus #IP objections from manufacturers.
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-64206913

#RightToRepair, #RightToTinker

Update. Turns out that John #Deere has been using open code under the #GPL w/o living up to the license. The Software Freedom Conservancy (@conservancy) is calling on it to comply — which would greatly enhance #farmers' #RightToRepair.
https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2023/mar/16/john-deere-gpl-violations/

"We…publicly call on John Deere to immediately resolve all of its outstanding GPL violations…by providing complete source code…that the GPL & other copyleft licenses require, to the farmers & others who are entitled to it."

#OpenSource

People from all over Europe want the right to install any software on any device! New signatures to our open letter:

🇮🇹 Italy

Wikimedia Italia @wikimediaitalia

LinuxTrent @linuxtrent

🇩🇪 Germany

Do-FOSS @do_foss

Werkkooperative der TechnikfreundInnen @HackerGeno

🇪🇸 Spain

Pangea @pangea_org

🇳🇱 Netherlands

Open Nederland @opennl

🇫🇷 France

Fédération des Fournisseurs d'Accès Internet Associatifs @ffdn_channel

Sign now! https://fsfe.org/activities/upcyclingandroid/openletter.html

#righttorepair #UpcyclingAndroid #freesoftware

Together with more than 100 European organisations and companies we have signed the #OpenLetter about the universal right to install any software on any device.

Today anyone can join us and sign the letter:

https://fsfe.org/activities/upcyclingandroid/openletter.html

#Ecodesign #RightToRepair #FreeSoftware #UpcyclingAndroid

@gael @murena @fsfe @Fairphone

More than 100 European organisations and companies have already signed our #OpenLetter about the universal right to install any software on any device. Now, in the European Week for Waste Reduction, we open up the letter to be signed by individuals. Join us now and sign the letter yourself today: https://fsfe.org/news/2022/news-20221121-01.html

#Ecodesign #RightToRepair #FreeSoftware #EWWR

Imagine you could install any software on any device. The devices you own that don't receive updates anymore, or where you found out that the software is full of ads/tracking. You could replace it, maybe with a Linux distro like postmarketOS running mainline. These devices wouldn't need to be electronic waste. We signed @fsfe's #openletter to the EU to make this happen.

You can sign it, too!

https://fsfe.org/activities/upcyclingandroid/openletter.html

#Ecodesign #RightToRepair #EWWR #FreeSoftware #LinuxMobile #UpcyclingAndroid

If you cannot install the software you want on your own device – you don’t own it. Full letter to EU legislators: https://fsfe.org/activities/upcyclingandroid/openletter.html

New signatures:

✅ Wikimedia Portugal
✅ Electronic Frontier Finland
✅ Aukfood

@aukfood #ecodesign #RighttoRepair #FreeSoftware

✅ The Free Android distribution Replicant,

✅ the Italian Linux Society,

✅ the self-hosting system YunoHost

just signed the open letter for the right to install any software on any device.

#Ecodesign #RightToRepair
@yunohost
@ItaLinuxSociety
@replicant
https://fsfe.org/activities/upcyclingandroid/openletter.html