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<title>A strong close to 2025 at 39C3; a promising start to 2026 thanks to your support</title>
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<h1>A strong close to 2025 at 39C3; a promising start to 2026 thanks to your support</h1>
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<p> As 2026 begins, we are excited to see the projects from the new
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edition of YH4F, kicking off this month, and to start preparing for
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FOSDEM! At the same time, we are looking back at the last month of
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2025: from 39c3 in Hamburg to our two latest Software Freedom Podcast
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episodes, and our updates on the Cyber Resilience Act and our work in
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the Apple v. European Commission litigation.
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</p>
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<img src="https://pics.fsfe.org/uploads/medium/83/7b/ff23df5da447f7f36a3da5d61d68.png" alt="Graphic for the FSFE newsletter: a large curved-shape blue border with the FSFE logo at top left, a nighttime photo inside a building venue witha rocket and people in the center, and a smiling person in a round inset on the right holding up books or booklets. At bottom left, a ‘software freedom podcast’ label with an audio waveform icon.”"/> </figure>
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<h3>Wrapping up the year at the 39C3</h3>
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<p>Like many of you, we ended 2025 at 39c3! A fantastic way to end the
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year with high spirits and a shared hope for the future we all aspire
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to see in 2048. During our days in Hamburg, we participated in the
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Bits&Bäume habitat with a booth, talks, and workshops, engaging in
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deep, inspiring discussions with the community that often stretched
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late into the night. We also attended outstanding talks that reinforced
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how, together as a community, we can actively work toward this vision.
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This vision includes a future where all regulatory frameworks actively
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support the use and development of Free Software, such as the Cyber
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Resilience Act (CRA).</p>
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<blockquote> “The door is open a crack, the wind is blowing, the
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post-American internet is upon us. It’s a new, good internet that
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delivers the technological self-determination of the old good internet
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and the easy of use of the Web 2.0 that let's our “normie” friends to
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use to. And I can't wait for us all to get to hang out there because
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it's going to be great. ”,<cite>Cory Doctorow, <a href="https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-a-post-american-enshittification-resistant-internet">at 39c3, during the final moments of his talk</a> in which he also asked people to donate to different organisations, such as the FSFE
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</cite>
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</blockquote>
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<h3>The role of the CRA for Free Software, our intervention at the Apple case,
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and digital sovereignty</h3>
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<p>Before the holiday festivities, we took, once again, <a href="/news/2025/news-20251218-01.html">one in-depth
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look at this European law</a>, sharing the insights and implications we
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gathered through our workstream within the BSI project Dialogue for
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Cybersecurity’: several questions remain open, especially regarding its
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implications for the Free Software landscape. The relationship between
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Free Software projects, potential stewards, and manufacturers hangs only
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partially defined, and official guidance will help. </p>
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<p>In 2025 we were also busy defending another EU law, the DMA and
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intervening in the <a href="/activities/apple-litigation/apple-litigation.html">Apple
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v. European Commission (T-1080/23)</a> hearing before the Court of
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Justice of the European Union. A couple of weeks ago we sent you a
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mailing about<a href="/news/2026/news-20260102-01.html"> the status
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of this case with our achievements</a>, which will have not been
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possible without your support and donations. </p>
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<p>Another hot topic in Europe at the end of 2025 has been digital
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sovereignty and Bonnie and Alex tackle it in one of our Software Freedom
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podcast episodes in December. The answer is clear: <a href="/news/podcast/2025/episode-42.html">digital
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sovereignty is only possible by empowering people and, therefore public
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institutions, to control their technology and own infrastructure.</a> In
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this context, we also participated in a consultation on the Digital
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Decade Policy Programme of the European Commission. In Germany, we were
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invited by the Digital Ministry to participate in a workshop on the
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“Germany Stack”, giving us the opportunity to <a href="https://download.fsfe.org/policy/consultations/Germany%20Stack%202025/20251205_Stellungnahme_FSFE_Workshop_Deutschland-Stack_Freie_Software.pdf">underline
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that digital sovereignty needs Free Software</a>.</p>
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<h3>New Year, next stops: YH4F, FOSDEM, Ada translations...</h3>
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<p>Meanwhile, 2026 is already underway and with it, the programming
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period for the fifth edition of <a href="/activities/yh4f.html">Youth Hacking 4 Freedom</a>!
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Registration is still open, so if you know any European teenager eager
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to showcase their skills and creativity with Free Software, now it is
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the time to get them involved. Participants will have fun, meet
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like-minded peers, and even have the chance to win cash prizes! <a href="/news/podcast/2025/episode-43.html">Find out all
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the insights in our dedicated podcast episode about it! </a></p>
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<p>While YH4F kicks off, we’re also busy preparing for our participation
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at FOSDEM 2026,our first opportunity this year to see
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many of you in person! One more time we will be there co-organizing the
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popular Legal & Policy issues DevRoom as well as involved in the
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Funding the FOSS and FOSS mobile ones. Besides some other talks and
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workshops, we we’ve got some exciting new merchandise: fresh T-shirts, a
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new design for our Free Software socks, and a brand-new sticker to help
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spread the word about Device Neutrality and push back
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against the big tech companies threatening interoperability.</p>
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<p>But that is not all: <a href="/activities/ilovefs.html">“I Love Free Software Day”</a> is also around the
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corner and we cannot wait to celebrate it in different cities across
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Europe, as well as to get our hands on the latest published translation
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of <a href="/news/2026/news-20260108-01.html">Ada
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& Zangemann: a Dutch edition is coming</a>! Pre-order it now and get
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it at FOSDEM!</p>
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<h3>Your support helps us move our work forward. Thank you!</h3>
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<p>With our winter fundraising wrapped up, we want to send a huge
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<strong>THANK YOU</strong> to everyone supporting us, including our
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amazing donors! We may be behind the wheel, but you’re the ones keeping
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us moving forward. You can also <a href="/donate/donate.html"><em>support us</em></a>,
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<a href="/contribute/contribute.html"><em>contribute
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to our work</em></a>, and <a href="/about/groups.html"><em>join our
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community</em></a>. Are you using social media? If so, do not forget to
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follow us there! Maybe you have already noticed we kicked off the year
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with a little game in <a href="https://mastodon.social/deck/@fsfe/115836146613430784">Mastodon</a>:
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a poll full of questions (and answers!) about Legal and Licensing topics
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in Free Software! You can also follow the FSFE news in your <a href="/news/news.rss">RSS Reader</a>.</p>
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<p>Your editor,<br/>
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Ana </p>
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