Début du message transféré : > Expéditeur: "John Sullivan, FSF" <[email protected]> > Date: 10 juillet 2019 à 01:29:05 UTC+2 > Destinataire: Michael Parchet <[email protected]> > Objet: Help us achieve our spring fundraiser goal by July 15. Donate and > share the Bulletin online! > Répondre à: "John Sullivan, FSF" <[email protected]> > > > > > Help our messages stay out of spam boxes: adding [email protected] to your address > book lets most email providers know that this is not spam. > > Read and share online: > https://www.fsf.org/appeal?pk_campaign=fr_sp2019&pk_source=email2 > > Dear Michael Parchet, > > > > The Free Software Foundation (FSF) and the wider free software movement are > now bigger in important ways than we've ever been before. We have more > associate members, more staff working full time to protect your freedom, more > volunteers, more software development infrastructure -- and more things to do. > > Being primarily funded by thousands of individuals gives us strength and > independence. We face financial requirements from the mundane and concrete, > such as significantly increased server colocation expenses for the free > infrastructure that supports hundreds of thousands of developers, to the > aspirational and ideological, like the pressing need to refine and propagate > our ethical standards and accompanying licensing expectations for network > services. For this, we ask your support. > > Thanks to the conviction and generous contributions of the free software > community, we have built an efficient and effective global network, bringing > people together to resist the constant threats to our freedom in the form of > proprietary software seeking to subjugate us and our societies to crass > commercial ends. We are proud of what we've accomplished together, but our > work is not done. > > In spite of the very public series of aggressive acts by the world's most > well-known tech companies -- especially Facebook, Amazon, Google, Apple, and > Microsoft -- we don't have global critical mass clamoring for free "as in > freedom" software and ethical network services. Instead, pundits are focused > on breaking up some of the companies, which, while possibly warranted for > other reasons, won't fix the immoral power imbalance at the root of the > privacy failures and other problems on everyone's minds. > > Every day, we see that the real resistance is growing, but it may not be > growing fast enough. As more people are casting about for ways to escape the > digital horrors they read about, the FSF needs to be there with outstretched > hands: making free software philosophy relatable; supporting ethical > development of the software, hardware, and services they need; and helping > them find and flex their political strength. > > Already, our exceptionally generous community got us to where we are, in a > position to succeed if we keep at it. Our spring fundraiser is nearly coming > to an end, with only one week left, please consider a financial contribution > to our cause. With your donation added before July 15th, you would help us to > achieve our goal of 400 donations in 28 days. > > Our fourteen hardworking staff use your donations wisely, earning yet another > best possible rating of four stars from Charity Navigator this last year. You > can read our financial statements, and our annual reports online. > > We have now published our spring Bulletin online. We hope you enjoy reading > about some of the great work we've done in collaboration with the global free > software community. I'm especially excited about the lead article explaining > the pilot program we just finished teaching free software in Boston-area > public elementary schools, which we'd love to expand into a model usable > around the world. > > Please be vocal about your support for free software! When you're done > reading, take a moment to share your passion for free software by posting > your favorite article on your social media or blog using the > #ISupportFreeSoftware hashtag, and use its contents as a conversation starter > within your community to talk about why you support free software. > > Individual financial contributions and spreading the word like this are forms > of activism we need much more of if we're to overcome trillions of > proprietary software dollars. We need to grow and diversify if we're to make > respect for user freedom the default, rather than a constantly endangered > niche. We've shown that with your support we can succeed together against far > greater resources -- thank you for sticking with us and giving everything you > can to bring about a brighter future. > > Yours in freedom, > > John Sullivan > Executive Director > > Follow us on GNU social | Follow us on Diaspora | Follow us on Twitter > Read about why we use Twitter, but only with caveats > Subscribe to our blog via RSS > Join us as an associate member > Read the Free Software Foundation Privacy Policy > Sent from the Free Software Foundation, > 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor > Boston, Massachusetts 02110-1335 > United States > You can unsubscribe from this mailing list by visiting the link > https://my.fsf.org/civicrm/mailing/unsubscribe?reset=1&jid=158919&qid=43981718&h=f11dbcbb30bfbefc. > To stop all email from the Free Software Foundation, including Defective by > Design, > and the Free Software Supporter newsletter, click this link: > https://my.fsf.org/civicrm/mailing/optout?reset=1&jid=158919&qid=43981718&h=f11dbcbb30bfbefc.
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