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<p>I Love Free Software Day: Celebrate and Appreciate</p><p>Learn about the free software movement and when it all started on this day of celebration and gratitude for I Love Free Software Day!</p><p>📣 Lets spread the love by giving a boost!</p><p><a href="https://www.adamsdesk.com/posts/i-love-free-software-day-celebrate-appreciate/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.adamsdesk.com/posts/i-love-free-software-day-celebrate-appreciate/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.adamsdesk.com/posts/i-love</span><span class="invisible">-free-software-day-celebrate-appreciate/</span></a></p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@kev" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>kev</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@mike" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>mike</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@joel" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>joel</span></a></span> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/@carrotcypher" rel="nofollow">@carrotcypher</a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@grueproof" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>grueproof</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@lulu_powerful" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>lulu_powerful</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@ru" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>ru</span></a></span> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/@wholesomedonut" rel="nofollow">@wholesomedonut</a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://nixnet.social/users/amolith" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>amolith</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://hostux.social/@fsf" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>fsf</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@fsfe" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>fsfe</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="/tags/blog/" rel="tag">#blog</a> <a href="/tags/ilovefs/" rel="tag">#Ilovefs</a> <a href="/tags/ilovefreesoftware/" rel="tag">#ILoveFreeSoftware</a><br><a href="/tags/opensource/" rel="tag">#OpenSource</a> <a href="/tags/foss/" rel="tag">#FOSS</a> <a href="/tags/software/" rel="tag">#software</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a></p>

<p>❤️ Thank you to all hard working contributors who develop and maintain:</p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@archlinux" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>archlinux</span></a></span> <br><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@centos" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>centos</span></a></span> <br><span class="h-card"><a href="https://framapiaf.org/@debian" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>debian</span></a></span> <br><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@elementary" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>elementary</span></a></span> <br><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@fedora" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>fedora</span></a></span> <br><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@FreeBSDFoundation" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>FreeBSDFoundation</span></a></span> <br><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@gentoo" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>gentoo</span></a></span> <br><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@linuxmint" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>linuxmint</span></a></span> <br><span class="h-card"><a href="https://masto.ai/@manjarolinux" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>manjarolinux</span></a></span> <br><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/@netbsd" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>netbsd</span></a></span> <br><span class="h-card"><a href="https://bsd.network/@openbsdnow" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>openbsdnow</span></a></span><br><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@opensuse" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>opensuse</span></a></span> <br><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@tails" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>tails</span></a></span> <br><span class="h-card"><a href="https://ubuntu.social/@ubuntu" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>ubuntu</span></a></span> </p><p>+ other distributions that provide the basis of today&#x27;s digital infrastructure while allowing everyone to use, study, share, and improve them! <a href="/tags/ilovefs/" rel="tag">#ilovefs</a> ❤️</p><p>(Please help to thank those, for whom I did not find a <a href="/tags/mastodon/" rel="tag">#mastodon</a> account 🙏)</p>

<p>❤️ With all the installations on <a href="/tags/gnu/" rel="tag">#GNU</a>/<a href="/tags/linux/" rel="tag">#Linux</a> (servers, vms, desktop, ... ), <a href="/tags/bsd/" rel="tag">#BSD</a> and <a href="/tags/unix/" rel="tag">#Unix</a> systems, <a href="/tags/macos/" rel="tag">#MacOS</a>, <a href="/tags/microsoft/" rel="tag">#Microsoft</a> <a href="/tags/windows/" rel="tag">#Windows</a> and WLS) I feel comfortable to claim there or way more than 1 billion installations of Vi*; often without people knowing about it.❤️</p><p>❤️ Thank you Bram Moolenaar, Christian Brabandt, the whole <a href="/tags/vim/" rel="tag">#Vim</a> community, and all the people from projects like <a href="/tags/neovim/" rel="tag">#NeoVIM</a>, <a href="/tags/nvi/" rel="tag">#Nvi</a>, <a href="/tags/busybox/" rel="tag">#Busybox</a> <a href="/tags/vi/" rel="tag">#Vi</a>, who develop and maintain their <a href="/tags/vim/" rel="tag">#vim</a> flavour. ❤️</p><p><a href="https://k7r.eu/thank-you-for-the-editor-of-the-beast/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="k7r.eu/thank-you-for-the-editor-of-the-beast/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">k7r.eu/thank-you-for-the-edito</span><span class="invisible">r-of-the-beast/</span></a> ❤️ <a href="/tags/ilovefs/" rel="tag">#ilovefs</a> ❤️</p>

<p>Debian thanks all the contributors building and nurturing the FOSS ecosystem and wishes everyone a very happy &quot;I Love Free Software Day&quot; <a href="https://fsfe.org/activities/ilovefs/" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>fsfe.org/activities/ilovefs/</a> <a href="/tags/debian/" rel="tag">#debian</a> <a href="/tags/ilovefs/" rel="tag">#ilovefs</a> <a href="/tags/02/" rel="tag">#02</a></p>

<p>💕 I Love Free Software Day 2026 💕</p><p>For this year’s <a href="https://ilovefs.org" rel="nofollow">I Love Free Software Day</a> I am co-organising two special events, and I am super excited about them!</p><p>🧶 <a href="https://ournet.rocks/" rel="nofollow">Knitting Our Internet</a> at Snackbar Frieda, Rotterdam, on Friday Feb 13th at 18:00. All information <a href="https://radar.squat.net/en/event/rotterdam/snackbar-frieda/2026-02-13/knitting-our-internet-i-love-free-software-day" rel="nofollow">here</a>.<br>🛹 A reading of <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@kirschner" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>kirschner</span></a></span>’s <a href="https://ada.fsfe.org" rel="nofollow">Ada &amp; Zangemann</a> in English and in Dutch. After that, a conversation about Free Software maintenance as care work, together with <span class="h-card"><a href="https://bonfire.cafe/pub/actors/mayel" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>mayel</span></a></span> from <span class="h-card"><a href="https://bonfire.cafe/pub/actors/Bonfire" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Bonfire</span></a></span> ❤️‍🔥 at the <span class="h-card"><a href="https://toot.community/@internetarchiveeurope" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>internetarchiveeurope</span></a></span>, Oudeschans 16, Amsterdam on Saturday Feb 14th at 14:00. All information <a href="https://luma.com/degnydko" rel="nofollow">here</a>. Info about the super cool poster in the post below.</p><p><a href="/tags/freesoftware/" rel="tag">#FreeSoftware</a> <a href="/tags/softwarefreedom/" rel="tag">#SoftwareFreedom</a> <a href="/tags/ilovefs/" rel="tag">#ILoveFS</a> <a href="/tags/ilovefreesoftware/" rel="tag">#ILoveFreeSoftware</a> <a href="/tags/ilovefs/" rel="tag">#ILoveFS</a> <a href="/tags/ilovefs26/" rel="tag">#IloveFS26</a> <a href="/tags/ournet/" rel="tag">#ournet</a> <a href="/tags/knittingourinternet/" rel="tag">#KnittingOurInternet</a> <a href="/tags/snackbarfrieda/" rel="tag">#SnackbarFrieda</a> <a href="/tags/rotterdam/" rel="tag">#Rotterdam</a> <a href="/tags/amsterdam/" rel="tag">#Amsterdam</a> <a href="/tags/internetarchive/" rel="tag">#InternetArchive</a> <a href="/tags/internetarchiveeurope/" rel="tag">#InternetArchiveEurope</a> <a href="/tags/azbook/" rel="tag">#AZbook</a> <a href="/tags/ada/" rel="tag">#Ada</a> <a href="/tags/adazangemann/" rel="tag">#AdaZangemann</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/event/" rel="tag">#event</a> <a href="/tags/decentralizaion/" rel="tag">#decentralizaion</a> <a href="/tags/internethistory/" rel="tag">#InternetHistory</a> <a href="/tags/internet/" rel="tag">#Internet</a></p>

<p>Z radością ogłaszamy, że po raz kolejny objęliśmy patronatem medialnym serię eventów <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@fsfe" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>fsfe</span></a></span> ❤️ I Love Free Software Day. Z tej okazji zapraszamy na spotkania w 3 miastach Polski. 😊</p><p>📍 Warszawa<br>13.02.2026 (piątek), 18:00<br><span class="h-card"><a href="https://social.hackerspace.pl/@hswaw" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>hswaw</span></a></span> ul. Żelazna 103A <span class="h-card"><a href="https://pol.social/@reszka" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>reszka</span></a></span></p><p>📍 Poznań<br>13.02.2026 (piątek), 18:00<br>Politechnika Poznańska, Piotrowo 2,<br><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@hspoz" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>hspoz</span></a></span>, Koło Naukowe Linux Academic Group</p><p>📍 Łódź<br>16.02.2026 (poniedziałek), 18:00<br><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mas.to/@hslodz" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>hslodz</span></a></span> Zielona 30, 90-604 Łódź</p><p>Więcej info: <a href="https://ilovefs.org/" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>ilovefs.org/</a></p><p><a href="/tags/ilovefs/" rel="tag">#ILoveFS</a> <a href="/tags/freesoftware/" rel="tag">#FreeSoftware</a></p>

<p>Wishing everyone a great time at I Love Free Software Day happening now in Poznań University of Technology in <a href="/tags/poznan/" rel="tag">#Poznan</a>, <a href="/tags/poland/" rel="tag">#Poland</a><br> <br>Find out more on <br><a href="https://hspoz.pl/ilovefs2026/" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>hspoz.pl/ilovefs2026/</a></p><p><a href="/tags/foss/" rel="tag">#foss</a> <a href="/tags/floss/" rel="tag">#floss</a> <a href="/tags/freesoftware/" rel="tag">#freesoftware</a> <a href="/tags/opensource/" rel="tag">#opensource</a> <a href="/tags/events/" rel="tag">#events</a> <a href="/tags/europe/" rel="tag">#europe</a> <a href="/tags/ilovefs/" rel="tag">#ilovefs</a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@fsfe" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>fsfe</span></a></span></p>

<p>Ha llegado el momento de hacer el anuncio más importante en la historia de <a href="https://masto.es" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>masto.es</a>.</p><p>Después de pensarlo mucho, finalmente he decidido que no puedo seguir asumiendo la responsabilidad que conlleva un servidor como este...</p><p>...así que junto a otras instancias amigas del Fediverso <img src="https://neodb.social/media/emoji/masto.es/fedi.png" class="emoji" alt=":fedi:" title=":fedi:">, he fundado la asociación <span class="h-card"><a href="https://masto.es/@RedesLibres" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>RedesLibres</span></a></span> para que nos ayude con nuestra responsabilidad como administradores, y para llevar el Fediverso al próximo nivel 🙂 </p><p>Podéis leer más sobre Redes Libres y sus objetivos en esta entrada de presentación: <a href="https://masto.es/@RedesLibres/116070370915517586" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="masto.es/@RedesLibres/116070370915517586"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">masto.es/@RedesLibres/11607037</span><span class="invisible">0915517586</span></a></p><p><a href="https://masto.es" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>masto.es</a> pasará a estar próximamente representada por esta asociación sin ánimo de lucro, que también será la encargada de pagar las facturas y custodiar vuestra información. Nuestros términos y condiciones se actualizarán para reflejar este cambio.</p><p>Un regalo especial para el software libre en este día de <a href="/tags/ilovefs/" rel="tag">#ilovefs</a> ❤️</p>

<p>W ubiegłym tygodniu – razem z Kołem Naukowym Linux Academic Group – mieliśmy przyjemność zorganizować &quot;I ❤️ Free Software Day 2026&quot;. </p><p>Dziękujemy wszystkim prelegentom i uczestnikom za wspaniały wieczór! 🙂 </p><p>Poniżej znajdziecie kilka fotek z eventu. </p><p><a href="/tags/ilovefreesoftwareday/" rel="tag">#ilovefreesoftwareday</a> <a href="/tags/ilovefs/" rel="tag">#ilovefs</a> <a href="/tags/ilovefs26/" rel="tag">#ilovefs26</a> <a href="/tags/fsfe/" rel="tag">#fsfe</a></p><p>1/2</p>