News
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FSFE urges European Commission to keep defending European economic interests (2005-10-14)
"We congratulate Microsoft on effective use of their considerable financial resources: First they manage to pay off Sun, then Novell and the CCIA. Now they convinced Real Networks to serve their own head on a silver platter for just US $761 Million"
Statement of FSFE and FSF Latin America to the 2005 WIPO General Assemblies (2005-09-30)
Not continuing what was begun, or changing from a horse to a mule midstream, as the honored Indian delegate so eloquently put it, would be wasting the time and effort spent on this initiative by all sides, North and South. For this reason we strongly support the notion of letting the IIM process finish what it began.
It's alive!
After long struggling, migrating, screaming, tweaking, playing, hacking, sobbing we can start enjoying the new portal of the Fellowship. Based on eZ Publish it has all the features of previous portal and lots of improvements. Please enjoy it, use it, abuse it, test it and report all your happines, frustration and wishes on the brand new forum.
Everybody Loves Raymond needs new characters
“Everybody Loves Eric Raymond” is an online comic. One of the funniest ones, I have to say. We love it. It needs new characters.
No software patents in Europe, FSFE requests EPO review instrument (2005-07-06)
After years of struggle, the European Parliament finally rejected the
software patent directive with 648 of 680 votes: A strong signal
against patents on software logic, a sign of lost faith in the
European Union and a clear request for the European Patent Office
(EPO) to change its policy: the EPO must stop issuing software patents
today.
Handlingsfattig IT-proposition som missar målet (2005-07-08)
Regeringens IT-proposition är svagt positiv till fri programvara, men
visar också att regeringen inte förstår vilka förändringar som
samhället står inför. Free Software Foundation Europe berömmer
regeringens förslag om satsningar på fri programvara och öppna
standarder inom offentlig förvaltning, men vill se en ökad medvetenhet
och handlingskraft kring de frågor som IT-propositionen endast skrapar
vid ytan på.
WIPO IIM/3: WSIS PCT: WIPO should prevent software patents, shorten copyright (2005-07-21)
During the third Inter-Sessional, Inter-Governmental Meeting (IIM) on a Development Agenda (IIM/3), Georg Greve delivered a statement on behalf of the WSIS Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks (PCT) Working Group of Civil Society, in which the working group asked WIPO to proactively prevent software patent legislation on a global level:
TuxMobil GNU/Linux Award 2005 granted (2005-08-30)
The TuxMobil GNU/Linux Award 2005 has been granted to OpenEmbedded,
OpenZaurus, PI-Sync, KWlanInfo and BlueZ, in recognition of their efforts in
users freedom.
Announcing the GPL Version 3 Development and Publicity Project (GPLv3) (2005-09-06)
Stichting NLnet donate 150,000 EUR to support GPLv3 activities
The project will bring together thousands of organisations, software
developers, and software users from around the globe during 2006, in
an effort to update the world's most popular Free Software licence. The
GPLv3 promises to be one of the largest participatory comments and
adoption efforts ever undertaken.
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