Framasoft. Free software against web giants

Last updated on February 23, 2025

I have already had the opportunity to say all the good I thought of the work of the Framasoft association.  For the past year, the animators of Framasoft have embarked on a David-style battle against Goliath. It is neither more nor more than ‘Degoogliser’ Internet.

For Framasoft, companies like Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple or Microsoft (GAFAM) which are part of our daily lives endanger our digital life as much as they facilitate it.
Search engine, social network, organisation of meetings, storage of documents … All these online services, I have presented here quite a few of them, have now become indispensable to our daily lives. Functional, ergonomic and mostly free of charge, they obscure the main issue which is based on control of personal data.

To win this battle, Framasoft had the great idea of trying to compete with the web giants on their own ground. In other words, to offer concrete alternatives to traditional online services. The right idea. What better way to convince users to turn to the free than to offer tools as good as commercial companies. This crazy Framasoft bet is winning it.

This week, Framasoft, launches or relaunches Five new services that pose as free alternatives to very popular services from the private sector.

FramaDrive.

Framadrive

Here is the alternative to services like Google Drive or DropBox. FramaDrive offers the same services as these web giants to store and share its files. FramaDrive offers a free space of 2 Gigas. It is not much, but it is already not bad. Additional space can be purchased, but prices are prohibitive.
Link: FramaDrive

FramaPad.

I have already talked about FramaPad on Tice Tools.  Collaborative text editor to welcome in this new version My Pads , a manager of private documents and publishing groups, and in the process becomes a serious alternative to Google Docs.
Link: MyPads

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Framaboard.

Framaboard

Framaboard is a service that allows you to manage tasks in collaborative mode. It offers a global view of tasks in project mode. An ideal tool to manage a party, wedding or school …kermesse event at several.
Link: Framaboard

Framadate.

Framadate

New version in sight in the next few days for Framadate. It is the most used service in the Framasoft suite. He was probably the one who helped to make the association known to a wide audience. Framadate is a free alternative to Doodle.
Link: Framadate

Framadrop.

Fifth and last service launched by Framasoft this week, Framadrop will allow you to transfer large files WeTransfer way but safely and with a preference for confidentiality. Framadrop promises to encrypt user files before they are even sent to the server.
Link: Framadrop

All these services are in place or in the process of being deployed. They are free and free and deserve support and promotion around you. In short turn and pass to your neighbor 😉

Framasoft is a popular education network, originating from the educational world, mainly dedicated to free software. It has three development axes: promotion, dissemination and development of free software, enrichment of free culture and offer of free online services.

The people of Framasoft have opened a special site dedicated to this campaign.
Link: Degooglisons Internet

4 Responses

  1. Fabian M says:

    First of all, congratulations on all this collection at the service of all.
    I would like to know which audio-video editing software is most appropriate, also intuitive, to work with high school students under the Windows operating system. Thank you

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