📣 Today, from 15:00 (CET), we will participate in the "DMA and Beyond Conference" organised by the Knight Georgetown Institute and @YaleUniversity in Washington D.C.

💥 Jithendra Palepu, FSFE volunteer, will present a comprehensive study - done with @llas, FSFE's Legal Programme Manager - on #Apple's restrictive interoperability policies in the context of the #DMA and its harm on #FreeSoftware

📺 Follow the live stream here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dm16w-q93HA

The FSFE , with 40+ civil society organisations, signed an open letter coordinated by @edri urging the @EUCommission to not be intimidated by threats against a vigorous Digital Markets Act enforcement.

For instance, #Apple has taken an aggressive position against the #DMA, litigating against the EC in a case we are intervening.

DMA is crucial to stop and prevent monopolistic practices. It represents an important step for #DeviceNeutrality and #SoftwareFreedom
https://edri.org/eu-resist-big-tech-bullying-open-letter-jan-2025/

The UK Competition and Markets Authority (#CMA) has launched today a new investigation into #Apple and #Google under the Digital Markets Competition Code (#DMCC) to determine their strategic market status in mobile ecosystems, including operating systems, app stores, and mobile browsers.

We welcome this as a step towards fairer markets where #DeviceNeutrality is the standard, and #FreeSoftware its enabler.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/cma-to-investigate-apple-and-googles-mobile-ecosystems

CMA to investigate Apple and Google's mobile ecosystems

Investigations will determine if Apple and Google have strategic market status in their mobile ecosystems, including operating systems, app stores and mobile browsers.

^{Competition and Markets Authority (GOV.UK)}

Have not yet finished the todo list for 2025 😉 Could you please help today, so the last task is fixed 🙏

[x] Litigation against #Apple in front of the European Court of Justice
[x] Produce and watch the "Ada & #Zangemann - A Tale of Software, Skateboards, and Raspberry Ice Cream" movie with >700 children
[x] Raise awareness about the EU's cut in funding for #FreeSoftware #OpenSource
[ ] Convince 10 of my #fediverse followers in December to become @fsfe Supporter https://fsfe.org/support

💥The FSFE submitted last month its arguments in the #Apple vs. @EUCommission litigation, arguing how interoperability is key for our digital societies

📎 Want to know more about this case? Check out this article by @heiseonline https://www.heise.de/en/news/FSFE-Apple-is-a-threat-to-free-software-and-a-DMA-rule-breaker-9785638.html

#SoftwareFreedom

FSFE: Apple is a threat to free software – and a DMA rule-breaker

Apple is blocking free software and clearly violating the new EU competition law, complain activists. They are backing the Commission.

^{Leo Becker (heise online)}

Google and Microsoft recently admitted their emissions are soaring as they build out data centers to power the AI boom.

But new analysis from The Guardian suggests the data center emissions of Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Apple are 662% higher than the companies reporting.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/sep/15/data-center-gas-emissions-tech

#tech #ai #datacenters #microsoft #google #apple #meta #climate

Data center emissions probably 662% higher than big tech claims. Can it keep up the ruse?

Emissions from in-house data centers of Google, Microsoft, Meta and Apple may be 7.62 times higher than official figures

^{Guardian staff reporter (The Guardian)}

#DMA: The FSFE signed a joint position to the @EU_Commission highlighting the main problematic aspects of #Apple in relation to #FreeSoftware:
https://fsfe.org/news/2024/news-20240627-01.html

#SoftwareFreedom

Defending DMA against Apple: The FSFE signs joint position paper - FSFE

Together with seven stakeholders organisations, the FSFE has submitted a joint position paper to the European Commission, with whom we are working on the i...

^{FSFE - Free Software Foundation Europe}

"#iPhones and #iPads are not general purpose computers" states #Apple. I vehemently disagree!!

(More about the @fsfe 's work on this and how you can help
https://fsfe.org/news/2024/news-20240627-01.html )