Directory

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

OpenBSDNetBSDOpenIndiana
GentooSlackwareAlpine LinuxDragoraMageiaDevuan
ReactOS
ReplicantLineageOSPostmarketOS

Web Browser

DilloBasiliskSurf?GNOME Web?Pale Moon?K-Meleon?Konqueror?
Midori?NetSurf?WaterFox?Falkon?qutebrowser?
w3mlynxlinkselinks

Email

ClawsK-9EvolutionThunderbirdBalsaKMailSylpheedTrojitaMulberryGearyGnumailspicebirdsquirrelmail
muttalpineconeelmmailxnmhgnus

Instant Messaging

IRC Clients
NameWindowsMacLinuxAndroidiOSWebLicense
Adium     GPL
Atomic     GPLv3
Colloquy?    GPL/BSD
Hexchat   GPLv2
IceChat?WW   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
  1. 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

ConnectBotDropbearPuTTY

Word Processor

AbiWordApache OpenOffice WriterCalligra WordsLibreOfficeEtherPad
GNU TeXmacsGroffLaTeXJWPceKWordLyXOnlyOffice Desktop EditorsTedTrelbyTextEdit

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.