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<title>#ilovefs Report 2014</title>
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<h1>#ilovefs Report 2014</h1>
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<p>On February 14th, people all around the world expressed
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their gratitude and appreciation not only to their partner but also to Free
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Software and its contributors. With our yearly #ilovefs we asked you to
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thank your favourite developers and projects and were overwhelmed by the
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resonance in <a href="#id-more-blog-posts">blogs</a>, <a href=
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"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23ilovefs">social networks</a>, and mailing
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lists.</p>
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<div class="captioned right" style="max-width: 600px; width: 30%;">
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<a href="https://twitter.com/twago_de/status/434274647182286850"><img src="/news/2014/graphics/ilovefs-cakes.jpg" alt="Delicious looking
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cakes with ilovefs flags" width="100%" /></a>
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<p>Developers and contributors of Free Software projects work hard to ensure
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our freedom and on this day surely many of them gained new motivation. Thank
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you for participating in this year's #ilovefs campaign and enjoy some of the
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many love declarations we collected:</p>
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<p>Adrienne sees Free Software as an important part of her life and explains
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why <a href="http://cracktheplates.com/2014/02/i-love-free-software/
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">even little steps in using Free Software are meaningful</a>:</p>
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<blockquote><p>I use it because it is written by people who care deeply
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about what they do, and who want to keep improving. It reminds me of the
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Hebrew phrase <em>tikkun olam</em>, which means repairing (or healing) the
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world. Free Software means you can read the code, which means you can
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improve it — and then pass it on for the better. Free Software repairs the
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world by advancing projects made with integrity to people who need them,
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free of charge. One day, I hope to contribute code to projects that people
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use every day.</p></blockquote>
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<div class="captioned right" style="max-width: 600px; width: 35%;">
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<a href="https://twitter.com/ossington/status/434342707624804352"><img
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src="/news/2014/graphics/ilovefs-hug-a-gnu.png" alt="Roses are red, violets
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are blue, this valentine's day hug a gnu" width="100%" /></a>
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</div>
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<p>Tamara was an intern in a local hacklab and says that <a href=
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"http://tamaraatanasoska.wordpress.com/2014/02/14/i-love-free-software/">
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knowing and teaching the ideology and message of Free Software is
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crucial</a>:</p>
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<blockquote><p>What is really important is that they, while teaching me the
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purely technical stuff about Linux and helping me with programming, were
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insisting that I know and get familiar with the ideology and what stands
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behind Free Software, and why is it crucial to us. They gave me
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documentaries to watch, they talked, shared, repeated. And I thank them. I
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am a better person and hacker and have made friends for life.</p></blockquote>
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<p>For Anna, Free Software is especially interesting when <a href=
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"http://www.phplist.com/?lid=635">mixed with other aspects of an open society
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</a>:</p>
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<blockquote><p>Today, February the 14th, is an international celebration of
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our love... for Free Software! People love it for all sorts of reasons, but
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for me, it's about the creative freedom that Free Software brings, with new
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software and new skills just a sudo yum install away. I feel especially
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blessed when Free Software meets Open Culture; then the party really gets
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started! </p></blockquote>
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<h3>#ilovefs is crossing borders</h3>
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<img src="/news/2014/graphics/ilovefs-german-green.jpg" alt="German green
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parliamentary group with an ilovefs picture" width="100%" />
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<p>One speciality of #ilovefs is the broadband of people expressing their
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love for Free Software. Year after year we recognise that Free Software is
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not only a topic for programmers and professional users but for many groups
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of people: the average computer users, artists, journalists, companies, and
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among them also politicians. This year the parliamentary group of the Green
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party in Germany <a href="http://gruen-digital.de/2014/02/we-free-software/">
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wrote how important Free Software is in times of global surveillance and in
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general</a>. And as a small extra they also sent a picture expressing their
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appreciation for the Free Software community, among them Katrin
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Göring-Eckardt, Toni Hofreiter, Britta Haßelmann, Claudia Roth, Jan Phillip
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Albrecht, Hans-Christian Stöbele, and Konstantin von Notz.</p>
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<a href="https://twitter.com/Damnit_Don/status/434373403235983360"><img
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src="/news/2014/graphics/ilovefs-comic.jpg" alt="Comic expressing the love for
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Free Software" width="100%" /></a>
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<p>There were also several events which focussed on "I Love Free Software
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Day". In Manchester, <a href=
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"http://freeasinfreedom.org.uk/what-we-did-becase-we-love-free-software/">
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Free Software was even celebrated with a week-long festival</a> full of
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workshops about Bitcoin, encryption, Wordpress and Free Your Android. Anna
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and the other volunteers had a very busy week with co-organising it but it
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was worth it: More than 100 people were learning, teaching and having fun
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with Free Software!</p>
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<h3>Media coverage</h3>
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<p>The "I love Free Software Day" was also topic in several online news. For
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example, the campaign was promoted in <a href=
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"http://www.linux-journalist.com/2014/02/14/i-love-free-software/">
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Linux-Journalist</a>, <a href=
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"http://www.unwatched.org/20140214_Iilovefs_day_2014">Unwatched</a>, <a
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href=
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"http://www.linux-community.de/Internal/User-Blogs/Majestyx-Blog/Zeigen-Sie-Ih
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re-Liebe-fuer-Freie-Software">Linux-Community</a>, <a href=
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"http://www.heise.de/open/meldung/Freie-Software-zum-Valentinstag-ilovefs-2110959.html">heise.de</a>, <a href=
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"http://www.linux-magazin.de/NEWS/Zum-Valentinstag-Zeigen-Sie-Ihre-Liebe-fuer-
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freie-Software">Linux-Magazin</a>, <a href=
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"http://ict-news-sampling.blogspot.de/2014/02/freie-software-zum-valentinstag-
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ilovefs.html">ICT News</a>, <a href=
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"http://www.dropnodes.de/webentwicklung/2014/ilovefs-zeig-deinem-entwickler-da
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ss-du-ihn-liebst/">Dropnodes Magazin</a>, and <a href=
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"http://netzpolitik.org/2014/i-%E2%9D%A4-free-software/">Netzpolitik</a>.</p>
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<h3>More blog posts</h3>
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<p>Beside the high participation in microblogs we also noticed a lot of blog
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posts this year. Below you can find a selection of articles you should have a
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look at:</p>
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2014-02-24 14:46:02 +00:00
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<p>Many authors dedicated their post to particular projects or developers, for example:</p>
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<li><a href="http://amosk.info/blog/archives/1030/">Andreas Färber from SUSE</a>
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thanked the QEMU developers, </li>
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<li><a href="http://azapps.de/blog/2014/02/12/ilovefs-day/">Anatolij Zelenin</a>
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wrote a small library for Android containing some information about #ilovefs, </li>
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<li><a href="http://blog.drost-fromm.de/posts/i-love-fs-2014.html">Isabel</a>
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says thank you to the contributors to Apache, Debian, Eclipse, Elasticsearch,
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Linux, ZeroMQ, any all other useful Free Software projects, </li>
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<li><a href="http://blog.max-mehl.com/2014/i-love-znc-because-ilovefs/">Max Mehl</a>
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presented ZNC, an IRC bouncer with lots of functionalities, </li>
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<li><a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/eal/2014/02/14/i-love-free-software-osmand/">Erik Albers</a>
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thanked the developers of OsmAnd for making the planning of his bicycle tours
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so much easier, </li>
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<li><a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/2014/02/14/ilovefs-the-humble-downloader-that-could/">Karsten Gerloff</a>
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said thank you to wget, a small, fast and efficient tool for downloading used
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also by whistleblowers. </li>
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<li><a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2014/02/ilovefs-thank-you-to-carsten-dominic-and-bastien-guerry-developers-of-org-mode/">Guido Arnold</a>
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appreciates org-mode for making his planning process much more easier, whereas </li>
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<li><a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/jens.lechtenboerger/2014/02/14/my-fairphone-and-i-love-free-software/">Jens Lechtenbörger</a>
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lists a lot of usefull Free Software apps for his new Fairphone which respect
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his privacy and </li>
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<li><a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/tobias_platen/2014/02/14/fairphone-kernel-released/">Tobias Platen</a>
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also appreciates the release of the Fairphone kernel under GPL although there
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are a lot of other things to improve. </li>
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<li><a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/mk/why-i-love-mpd-ncmpcpp-and-mpdroid/">Matthias Kirschner</a>
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dedicated his post to the developers to his favourite music player programs, </li>
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<li><a href="http://fedoraftw.com/today-february-14th-2014-i-love-free-software-day/">fedoraFTW</a>
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highlights the importance of freedom for all people working on the fedora OS, </li>
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<li><a href="http://hroy.eu/posts/ilovefs-mutt/">Hugo Roy</a>
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explains why he probably will never use another email client than mutt, </li>
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<li><a href="http://info.fairnopoly.de/fn-%E2%99%A5-free-software/">Konstantin and Paul</a>
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from Fairnopoly present Blender, zsh, vim, and Tmux as essential parts of
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their work, </li>
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<li><a href="http://wordpress.martiningenhoven.de/archives/verschenkt-blumen-ilovefs/">Martin Ingenhoven</a>
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thanks among others Gnome, ufraw, pinta, digikam, XFCE, and GIMP for their
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work. </li>
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<li><a href="http://www.gizlog.de/2014/robot-finds-kitten-ilovefs-yarfork/">Mirco Lang</a>
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shows his readers why simple text adventures like "robot finds kitten" are
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great and </li>
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<li><a href="http://www.laemplein.de/index.php/blog/100-ilovefs14/">Sven Lamprecht</a>
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dedicates his #ilovefs post to darktable, kdenlive, and ArchLinux.</li>
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<p>There were also a lot of articles about Free Software and its advantages in
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general, for example from:</p>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/the_unconventional/2014/02/14/i-love-free-software-because-it-allows-me-to-be-free-to-help-others/">Kevin Keijzer</a>
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who helps other people by building computers from old hardware which only
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runs with Free Software or from</li>
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<li><a href="http://kreativeffekt.at/2014/02/14/i-love-free-software/">Siegrid</a>
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who appreciates especially the independence gained by the usage of Free
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Software. </li>
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<li><a href="http://linuxundich.de/ubuntu/heute-ist-der-i-love-free-software-tag-2014/">Christoph Langner</a>
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loves the political and democratical aspect of Free Software whereas</li>
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<li><a href="http://oskar.twoday.net/stories/689714069/">Oskar Welzl</a>
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used the #ilovefs day for telling interested co-workers about the importance of
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Free Software. The</li>
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<li><a href="http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/thank-you-for-the-software-that-makes-our-work-possible/">Free Software Foundation</a>
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offers a long list of software they use on a regular basis for their tasks and</li>
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<li><a href="http://totschka.wordpress.com/2014/02/12/ich-liebe-freie-software-tag-2014/">totschka</a>
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likes the philosphy of community and freedom.</li>
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<li><a href="http://www.lebsanft.org/?p=44/">Benjamin</a>
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gains a lot of knowledge and fun by using Free Software and </li>
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<li><a href="http://www.slwoods.co.uk/?p=3643/">Steve Woods</a>
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would simply be lost without the Free Software he uses every day.</li>
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<p>There were also a lot of posts in other languages, for example from
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<a href="http://databiblioteket.com/fri-programvara/298-i-love-free-software-day-2014/">Databiblioteket</a>
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, <a href="http://emiliogil.com/todo-mi-carino-por-los-desarrolladores-de-software-libre/">Emilio Gil</a>
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, <a href="http://geekstorming.wordpress.com/2014/02/13/confieso-que-ilovefs/comment-page-1/">Geekstorming</a>
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, <a href="http://hup.hu/cikkek/20140214/ilovefs/">HUP</a>
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, <a href="http://planetadiego.com/2014/02/14/hoy-14-de-febrero-expresa-tu-amor-por-el-software-libre/">Planeta Diego</a>
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, <a href="http://victorhckinthefreeworld.wordpress.com/2014/02/12/muestra-tu-amor-por-el-software-libre/">Victorhck in the free world</a>
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, <a href="http://www.greeklug.gr/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&id=246">Association of Greek Users and Friends of FS / OSS</a>
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