This policy expresses TRIPLE-F’s commitment to the promotion of free/libre and open source software (FLOSS), open standards and the promotion of open sharing of knowledge. TRIPLE-F are committed to creating and experimenting with technology using free/libre and open source software, tools and platforms. Promoting, disseminating and sharing knowledge about the use of FLOSS is central to our praxis. We consider FLOSS to be the only truly safe and sustainable digital tools choice that respects the needs of communities and reflects the culture of sharing, participation and collaboration that TRIPLE-F promotes on all levels. We proritise FLOSS and open standards for the following reasons: (a) Driven by community needs: Open source software and hardware allow the community of users and developers to respond to needs that are sometimes not considered “profitable” enough for prioritisation by companies that drive the development of proprietary software. Conversely, given the collaborative nature of the development of most FLOSS projects, community needs can drive FLOSS software and hardware developments. We promote adoption of this model not only because it produces appropriate software and hardware that we can all use, but also because it is applicable to many areas of community development, not just software and hardware production. Great examples are the creative commons movement in the arts, or the contemporary unprecedented open source healthcare movement that works collaboratively to fight COVID-19. (b) Sustainability: The FLOSS model of sharing, collaboration and mutual support is the best response to the challenge of creating safe, secure, sustainable, affordable and accessible solutions. This becomes increasingly important as we witness increasing monopolisation of services and software/hardware solutions, and the monetisation of more and more aspects of human lives, some we never imagined possible, particularly the harvesting and commercialisation of personal information. (c) Security: We support the assumption that FLOSS is by design more secure than proprietary solutions because its code is openly available and can be reviewed. This is particularly true in the case of major FLOSS projects where the development process provides a high level of certainty that the software is without backdoors, adware or code that extracts user data for use by third parties. As the saying goes for the free software development process: “given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow”.