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Free Software Foundation (FSF) Almost 85% Funded

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 04, 2025

Probably 85% by Sunday or Monday

JUST before the weekend the FSF said: "Help us in this last stretch of our fundraiser"

The blog post mentioned "sponsoring the GNU System and Savannah", among other things:

It goes without saying that this is all happening on top of the core work that the FSF does to support the free software community, such as: sponsoring the GNU System and Savannah, an important source code repository and resource for free software development; fiscally sponsoring other important free software development with the FSF's Working Together for Free Software Fund; maintaining and defending the Free Software Definition; educating about free software licensing; and providing free software development support including email, shell access, and mailing lists.

No money will be spent renting an office this time. They exited their physical office several months ago. █

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