The Software Freedom Conservancy needs 750 Supporters to continue its basic
community services & 2,500 to avoid hibernating its enforcement efforts!
While we regularly call on people to donate to such organization it's
particularly important this year that we get people to donate specifically to
the Software Freedom Conservancy. You see for supporting the enforcement of
the GPL against virtualisation giant VMware important corporate funding from
a variety of large companies was pulled. Not only has important funding been
pulled, but the Conservancy has been kicked from conferences, bullied, and
blocked from attending others. This is a direct attack on the very free
software we all depend on:
“We have lost committed general funding from companies explicitly because
of our enforcement work. Continuing this work without individual support is
no longer possible,” the SFC blogged.
The Conservancy threw its financial backing behind Linux kernel maintainer
Christopher Hellwig’s suit against VMware in March.
Here are some links:
https://sfconservancy.org/supporter/ (most important, donate please!)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/11/25/software_conservancy_funding_drive/
https://www.thinkpenguin.com/blog
https://www.fsf.org/blogs/executive-director/support-the-software-freedom-conservancy
If you have a blog or web site please write about it! If you have a social
networking account post to it. Every little bit counts.
