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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

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|| OpenBSD || NetBSD || OpenIndiana ||

|| Gentoo || Slackware || Alpine Linux || Dragora || Mageia || Devuan ||

|| ReactOS ||

|| Replicant || LineageOS || PostmarketOS ||

Web Browser

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|| Dillo || Basilisk || [Surf](../third/surf]] || GNOME Web || Pale Moon || [K-Meleon || [Konqueror ||

|| Midori || NetSurf || WaterFox || Falkon || qutebrowser ||

|| w3m || lynx || links || elinks ||

Email

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|| Claws || K-9 || Evolution || Thunderbird || Balsa || KMail || Sylpheed || Trojita || Mulberry || Geary || Gnumail || spicebird || squirrelmail ||

|| mutt || alpine || cone || elm || mailx || nmh || gnus ||

Instant Messaging

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||# IRC Clients !||

||# 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.