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            <h2>What We Do</h2>
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            <h2>Vizio Lawsuit</h2>
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            <li class="VizioMain"><a href="/copyleft-compliance/vizio.html">About the Lawsuit</a></li>
            <li class="VizioPressRelease"><a href="/copyleft-compliance/vizio.html">Press Release</a></li>
            <li class="VizioComplaint"><a href="/docs/software-freedom-conservancy-v-vizio-complaint-2021-10-19.pdf">Complaint</a></li>
            <li class="VizioQandA"><a href="/press/qanda.html">Q&amp;A</a></li>
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            <h2>Resources for Journalists on Vizio</h2>
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            <li class="VizioPressKit"><a href="/docs/software-freedom-conservancy-v-vizio-announce-press-kit.pdf">Press Kit</a></li>
            <li class="VizioPhotoAssets"><a href="/docs/software-freedom-conservancy-v-vizio-photo-assets.zip">Photo Assets</a></li>
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           <h1>What We Do</h1>
           <p>Software Freedom Conservancy is a nonprofit organization
           centered around ethical technology. Our mission is to ensure the
           right to repair, improve and reinstall software. We promote and
           defend these rights through fostering free and open source
           software (FOSS) projects, driving initiatives that actively make
           technology more inclusive, and advancing policy strategies that
             defend FOSS (such as copyleft).</p>

           <p>Our work on <a href="/copyleft-compliance/">copyleft
           compliance</a>, including enforcement of the General Public
           License (GPL), is world-renowned.  We believe fundamentally that
           copyleft licenses are the best tool available today to empower
           users and consumers to take control of their electronic devices,
           liberate themselves from planned obsolesce, and join a free market
           where they choose who provides their software.</p>

           <p>We also believe that FOSS functions best when built by a
           egalitarian community in which hobbyists, volunteers, and
           individuals stand on equal footing with companies and large
           organizations.  Vendor neutrality is simply not enough &mdash; as
           that merely makes companies equal to each other and leaves
           hobbyists and volunteers out in the cold.  To foster FOSS creation
           in this manner, we are the <a href="/projects/">non-profit home to
           dozens of member projects and initiatives</a> whom we assist to
           remain transparent and prioritize the public good in their
           development of FOSS.</p>

           <p>Furthermore, diversity and inclusion is a critical component to
           egalitarian FOSS communities.  We acknowledge that FOSS
           communities historically have struggled on these fronts and the
           myth of &ldquo;pure meritocracy&rdquo; so popular in FOSS circles
           willfully ignores the systemic biases in our societies and
           cultures.  We are thus the proud home of
           the <a href="https://outreachy.org/">Outreachy initiative</a> that
           offers paid internships in FOSS for contributors who have faced
           systemic bias in their efforts to join the FOSS community.<p>


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