Android operating system</a>. According to the Commission, Google is
abusing its dominant market position by pre-installing and setting Google
Search, Google Play Store and Google Chrome as the default on most Android
devices sold in Europe. These practices close off ways for competitive
search engines to access the market.</p>
<p>FSFE has previously <ahref="https://fsfe.org/activities/policy/eu/20130729.EC.Fairsearch.letter.en.html">raised
its concerns in regard to the claim against the free-of-charge distribution
of Android</a> that had been raised to the European Commission by a
coalition of certain online service providers who claimed that this practice
is harmful to competition. We argued against that claim as it undermines
the whole essence of Free Software licensing, and are pleased to see that
the Commission disregarded that claim in its antitrust case against Google.</p>
<h2id="from-the-community">From the community</h2>
<ul>
<li><p>Guido Arnold, our education team coordinator, summarised legal
aspects and possible activities to take, when <ahref="https://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2016/04/public-schools-making-ms-office-mandatory/">public schools make MS Office mandatory.</a></p></li>
the course by Richard Stallman "On the Road to the Free Digital Society"
in Moodle Backup and IMS Common Cartridge formats</a>, and invites everyone
to give feedback and promote the course through their channels.</p></li>
<li><p>Since Let’s Encrypt has left beta testing, Michal Nazarewicz <ahref="http://mina86.com/p/tls-is-a-yes/">uses and promotes this new certificate
authority which provides free TLS certificates</a>: "If you're running
your own server there's no excuse not to use TLS".</p></li>
<li><p>Björn Schießle <ahref="http://blog.schiessle.org/2016/04/16/installing-wallabag-2-on-a-shared-web-hosting-service/">blogs about a self hostable application for saving web pages, "Wallabag",
and about its maintenance on a shared web hosting service</a>.</p></li>
<li><p>Marcus Moeller explains how to <ahref="https://blogs.fsfe.org/mmoeller/2016/04/20/setting-up-a-freedombox-on-bbb-to-host-a-blog/">set up a Freedombox on a Beagle Bone Black in order to self-host a blog
on freely designed hardware and without the need to use proprietary
software</a>.</p></li>
</ul>
<h2id="what-else-have-we-done">What else have we done?</h2>
<p>Spain's Ministry of Finance and Public Administrations <ahref="https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/spain-publishes-file-archive-tool-open-source">published
its web-based solution for archiving electronic files under a Free Software
license</a>. France is also not lagging behind and recently