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Break the Blockade
Software companies around the world are waging an assault against user freedom. We need to break the blockade and switch our users over to software that protect users' freedom to control their own computers.
Operating Systems
| OpenBSD | NetBSD | OpenIndiana | |||
| Gentoo | Slackware | Alpine Linux | Dragora | Mageia | Devuan |
| ReactOS | |||||
| Replicant | LineageOS | PostmarketOS |
Web Browser
| Dillo | Basilisk | Surf? | GNOME Web? | Pale Moon? | K-Meleon? | Konqueror? |
| Midori? | NetSurf? | WaterFox? | Falkon? | qutebrowser? | ||
| w3m | lynx | links | elinks |
| Claws | K-9 | Evolution | Thunderbird | Balsa | KMail | Sylpheed | Trojita | Mulberry | Geary | Gnumail | spicebird | squirrelmail |
| mutt | alpine | cone | elm | mailx | nmh | gnus |
Instant Messaging
| Name | Windows | Mac | Linux | Android | iOS | Web | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adium | ✓ | GPL | |||||
| Atomic | ✓ | GPLv3 | |||||
| Colloquy? | ✓ | ✓ | GPL/BSD | ||||
| Hexchat | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | GPLv2 | |||
| IceChat | ✓ | W | W | GPLv2 | |||
| irssi | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | GPLv2 | |||
| KVIrc | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | GPLv2 | |||
| KiwiIRC | ✓ | Apache 2.0 | |||||
| Limechat | ✓ | ✓ | GPLv2 | ||||
| Pidgin | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | GPLv2 | |||
| Quassel | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | GPLv2 | |
| Revolution IRC | ✓ | GPLv3 | |||||
| simpleirc | ✓ | GPLv3 | |||||
| smuxi | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | GPLv2 | |||
| Thunderbird | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | MPL 2.0 | |||
| weechat | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | GPLv3 | ||
| yaaic | ✓ | GPLv3 | |||||
| XChat | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Proprietary/GPL |
- W = Wine emulation
File Storage
FTP clients
cURL Cyberduck FAR Manager FileZilla FireFTP Fugu gFTP lftp Macfusion NcFTP net2ftp Rclone tnftp WinSCP
SFTP clients
SCP clients
Rsync clients
SSH clients
| ConnectBot | Dropbear | PuTTY |
Word Processor
| AbiWord | Apache OpenOffice Writer | Calligra Words | LibreOffice | EtherPad | |||||
| GNU TeXmacs | Groff | LaTeX | JWPce | KWord | LyX | OnlyOffice Desktop Editors | Ted | Trelby | TextEdit |
File Sharing
Password Manager
Video/phone calling
Cryptocurrency
Text Editors
Gopher
Multimedia
To qualify on this list, the software must be fully free and open source, not capable of centralized censorship, and not heavily under corporate control.
