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(2008-04-02) FSFE concerned about quality of standardisation process
"Technologically speaking, the state of IS29500 is depressing," says
Marko Milenovic of FSFE's Serbian Team and co-chair of the Serbian
technical committee on DIS29500. "In large parts it is low quality
technical prose that fails to use the normative terminology mandated by
ISO/IEC's guidelines. We've been told to wait for the maintenance
process for MS-OOXML to become usable. That ISO would knowingly approve
a dysfunctional specification is disillusioning."
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(2008-03-26) 26 March 2008: Today is Document Freedom Day!
Today is Document Freedom Day: Roughly 200 teams from more than 60
countries worldwide are organising local activities to raise awareness
for Document Freedom and Open Standards. [...] Document Freedom
is about giving you control of your information, it is about giving
governments control of their public records, and it is about freedom
of choice. You can give yourself that freedom today [...]
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(2008-03-06) Petition calls for Open Standards in the European Parliament
At a time when the EU Commission investigates the anti-competitive
behaviour of a market-dominant player, the European Parliament (EP)
still imposes that same specific software choice on both the European
Union's citizens and its own MEPs. OpenForum Europe, The European
Software Market Association, and the Free Software Foundation Europe
today launched a petition to call on the EP to use Open Standards so
that all citizens can participate in the democratic process.
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(2008-03-05) FSFE context briefing: Interoperability woes with MS-OOXML.
FSFE has released a context briefing on Interoperability problems caused by Microsoft's Office OpenXML format:
"The proposed MS-OOXML/DIS29500 specification raises serious technical and legal concerns.
This context briefing highlights three examples of how the proposed specification and
its practical implementation in MS Office 2007 hinders interoperability, fosters vendor
dependence and results in market distortion."
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(2008-03-01) Google helps FSFE's FTF to deliver training, attend conferences and translate documents.
"The Freedom Task Force is working to foster effective legal
infrastructure for Free Software in Europe. A great deal of our work is
based on engaging directly with people and Google's contribution will
allow us to do this more effectively," says Shane Coughlan, FTF
Coordinator.
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(2008-02-28) La FSFE solicita a Microsoft que libere sin restricciones la información sobre interoperatividad
La Comisión Europea ha multado a Microsoft con 899 millones
de euros por conducta, anterior a octubre de 2007, contra la competencia
al restringir el acceso a información sobre la interoperatividad.
«Microsoft es la última compañía que ha promovido activamente
el uso de las patentes de software para restringir la interoperatividad.
Este tipo de conducta no debería tener lugar en la sociedad de la
información.donde todos los componentes deberían poder conectarse
sin problemas independientemente de su origen», declara Georg Greve,
presidente de la Free Software Foundation Europa (FSFE).
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(2008-02-22) Microsoft pledge excluding primary competitors
Yesterday's media briefing by Microsoft on its its pledge to release
interoperability information for flagship products contained little
actual news. Over the years Microsoft has made multiple similar pledges
and they at times proved to be detrimental rather than beneficial for
interoperability. Examining the terms of the Microsoft's latest action
shows no major change of policy.
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(2008-02-20) 26 March: A global day for document liberation
The Document Freedom Day (DFD) is a global day for Document Liberation
with grassroots action for promotion of Free Document Formats and Open
Standards in general. The DFD was initiated and is supported by a
group of organisations and companies, including, but not limited to,
the Free Software Foundation Europe, ODF Alliance, OpenForum Europe,
IBM, Red Hat and Sun Microsystems, Inc. On 26 March 2008, the Document
Freedom Day will provide a global rallying point for Document
Liberation and Open Standards.
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(2008-02-18) FSFE Context Briefing: DIS-29500 - Deprecated before use?
When ECMA submitted MS-OOXML as ECMA-376 to ISO for fast-track
approval, several countries criticised overlap with the existing ISO
standard ISO/IEC 26300:2006, the Open Document Format (ODF). [...]
Considering that alleged preservation of idiosyncrasies is the stated
reason for the entire DIS-29500 ISO process, FSFE considers it
worthwhile to investigate this claim in greater depth.
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(2008-02-14) La FSFE presenta el primer seminario legal y de licencias para el Software Libre en Europa
La Freedom Task Force de la FSFE presenta el primer
seminario legal y de licencias para el Software Libre en Europa que
tendrá lugar el viernes 11 de abril en Amsterdam, Holanda.
Se celebrará en el hotel InterContinental Amstel.
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(2008-01-18) NLnet continúa su apoyo a la Freedom Task Force de la FSFE
En noviembre de 1996 se creó la Freedom Task Force de la FSFE para
ayudar con la licenciación de Software Libre a personas, proyectos y empresas.
La fase inicial de la FTF fue posible gracias al apoyo de la organización
filantrópica holandesa NLnet. El apoyo de NLnet permitió a la FTF proporcionar
formación, asesoramiento y trabajar conjuntamente con gpl-violations.org para
resolver asuntos relativos a licencias en Europa. La FTF ha formado también
redes de expertos técnicos y legales para fomentar la cooperación entre abogados,
proyectos y empresas en cuestiones relativas a licencias. Ahora, después de
doce meses de continuo crecimiento, NLnet proporciona de nuevo el apoyo
financiero para estos proyectos legales innovadores.
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(2007-12-21) FSFE supports new antitrust investigation against Microsoft
"Microsoft should be required openly, fully and faithfully to
implement free and open industry standards," is the message of a
letter by the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) to European
Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes. To help achieve this goal, FSFE
offered its support for a possible antitrust investigation based on
the complaint of Opera Software against Microsoft. The complaint was
based on anti-competitive behaviour in the web browser market.
[Leer más...]
(2007-12-20) El fin del caso antimonopolio en la UE: Samba obtiene información
para la interoperabilidad
El caso terminó y la interoperabilidad ganó. El Tribunal Europeo dejó
claro que la información para la interoperabilidad no debe mantenerse
secreta, y el acuerdo demuestra que Microsoft no vio posible continuar
la obstrucción de la interoperabilidad en este campo. Esto establece una
norma que, de ahora en adelante, cualquiera tendrá que cumplir.
[Leer más...]
(2007-11-09) Bienvenido a la vida después de la cautividad en las TIC
«La dependencia de un proveedor se ha convertido en el principal problema para las
decisiones en TI en general y en la adopción de Software Libre en particular.
Esto distorsiona el mercado y niega a las soluciones basadas en Software Libre
el acceso a una libre competencia basada en méritos. El problema se debe a que
muchas de las dependencias de un proveedor son invisibles, por ejemplo la
necesidad de protocolos propietarios o la necesidad de emplear ciertos
formatos de documentos. Certified Open hace visible estas dependencias y
permite a los usuarios medir su grado de libertad respecto al proveedor.»
[Leer más...]
(2007-09-17) FSFE, Samba: A triumph for freedom of choice and competition
"Microsoft can consider itself above the law no longer," says Georg
Greve, president of the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE).
"Through tactics that successfully derailed antitrust processes in
other parts of the world, including the United States, Microsoft has
managed to postpone this day for almost a decade. But thanks to the
perseverance and excellent work of the European Commission, these
tactics have now failed in Europe."
[Leer más...]
(2007-07-27) La FSFE ofrece asesoramiento a empresas que deseen adherirse
a los términos de licencias de Software Libre
Los términos de la GPL de GNU han sido ratificados de nuevo, un tribunal alemán
falló contra Skype por no cumplir sus obligaciones como distribuidor. La FSFE
quiere ayudar a otros distribuidores a entender las obligaciones de la GPL de GNU.
[Leer más...]
(2007-07-16) El engaño del traductor
Artículo publicado en Heise.de: «La traducción entre el formato
de Microsoft Office OpenXML (MS-OOXML) y el formato independente
Open Document Format (ODF), ha sido propuesta por Microsoft y sus
asociados como una solución a los problemas ocasionados por los esfuerzos
de Microsoft para impulsar en el mercado un formato que se opone a los
formatos abiertos existentes. [...] Si estos traductores
fueran capaces de hacer lo que prometen, serían innecesarios.»[Leer más...]
(2007-07-11) BBC: Questions for Microsoft on open formats
Featured article by Georg Greve and Joachim Jakobs
about the need for Open Standards in archival, and why using MS-OOXML risks future data loss:
"Digital information could potentially be stored without loss of quality for a very long time to come.
But without knowledge about the encoding, our documents will become a meaningless series of ones and zeroes to future generations, just like cave paintings are too often meaningless bits of colour on stone to us."
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(2007-07-11) Free Software personal assistance for businesses
Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) has always helped the community
through providing pro bono advice, and through this has discovered
that businesses often require additional personal assistance. For
this reason, FSFE is offering businesses a chance to get individual
consultancy regarding Free Software issues at its Zurich, Switzerland
office.
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(2007-07-05) GNU GPLv3 Released
Version 3 of the GNU GPL has been released, after eighteen months of
public consultation and discussion. Version 3 provides better
internationalisation, more protection against software patents, and
does a better job of ensuring that Free Software users can install
modified software on their computers.
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(2007-06-26) Six questions to national standardisation bodies
The following six questions relate to the application of the
ECMA/MS-OOXML format to be accepted as an IEC/ISO
standard. Unless a national standardisation body has conclusive
answers to all of them, it should vote no in IEC/ISO and request
that Microsoft incorporate its work on MS-OOXML into ISO/IEC
26300:2006 (Open Document Format).
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(2007-05-18) El mensaje de Microsoft: Es el momento de invertir en Software Libre
En un intento de atemorizar, crear incertidumbre y duda en los centros
financieros mundiales, Microsoft alega que el Software Libre infringe varias
patentes de software, según un artículo publicado en la revista Fortune
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(2007-04-23) European Parliament must prevent criminalisation of software vendors
and users
The FSFE criticises the proposed "second Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement
Directive" (IPRED2) for sweeping criminalisation across various areas of law
and loosely described areas of activity, including for 'attempting, aiding or
abetting and inciting.' The proposed text criminalises these acts for
infringement of many dissimilar laws including copyright, trademark, and
patents.
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(2007-04-17) FSFE launches list of recommended Free Software lawyers
The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) is committed to working
with lawyers throughout Europe to maximise the legal security of Free
Software and is aware that as the community matures it is important to
be able to locate professional legal advice. For this reason FSFE has
introduced a new policy for recommending legal experts in individual
countries.
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(2007-02-24) La hora de la recompensa: ¡El Sorteo de la Fellowship 2007!
«La comunidad del Software Libre se basa en el principio de cooperación entre
partes muy diferentes. La Free Software Foundation Europa (FSFE) trabaja
para el beneficio de toda la comunidad, incluyendo las
compañías que hacen uso del Software Libre», explica Georg Greve, presidente
de la FSFE. «Nos es grato realizar este trabajo y nos entusiama hacerlo,
siempre tenemos presente que en gran parte este trabajo es posible gracias a
aquellos que trabajan con nosotros y nos dan su apoyo, en particular al gran
número de Fellows de la FSFE».
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(2007-02-01) FSFE releases solution to increase legal strength of Free Software projects
Today FSFE has released the Fiduciary Licence Agreement (FLA) under the
terms of the GNU Free Documentation Licence (GFDL) and the Creative
Commons Attribution/Share-alike (CC by-sa) licence. The FLA is a
copyright assignment that allows Free Software projects to bundle their
copyright in a single organisation or person. It enables projects to
ensure their legal maintainability and can be used to either assign
copyright to FSFE's Fiduciary Program or to assign the rights to
another organisation set up by the project team itself.
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(2007-01-30) El mensaje de Vista: ¡Actualice ya a GNU/Linux!
Para la FSFE esto es una oportunidad única: con el lanzamiento de Vista, los
usuarios necesitarán actualizar a un nuevo sistema operativo que tendrá un
aspecto diferente y para el que se requerirá de algún tiempo para
familiarizarse con las nuevas funcionalidades. Lo mismo vale para cualquier
distribución moderna de GNU/Linux.Es aproximadamente la misma inversión de
esfuerzo, pero le dará el control sobre sus propios datos.
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(2007-01-23) FSFE becomes the legal guardian of the OpenSwarm Project
The OpenSwarm Project will be protected by FSFE's Freedom Task Force
(FTF). Shane Coughlan, FTF Coordinator, explains "The Freedom Task
Force is here to help strengthen the legal foundation of the Free
Software eco-system. The Fiduciary licence Agreement is part of this.
It provides a clear way for projects to consolidate their copyright.
In the case of OpenSwarm, FSFE is acting a legal guardian for the
project and ensuring that the developers can focus on maturing an
exciting development platform."
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(2007-01-09) Transcript: Free Software and the Future of Freedom
In this talk, Richard Stallman explains why Free Software is
defined the way it is, the technical and political choices that
have gotten the Free Software movement to where it is today, and
what we have to do to prepare for what's ahead. With more than
20 years of practice, Stallman also entertains while telling the
story.
This transription work was undertaken by FSFE due
to the very positive feedback from the transcripts about GPLv3.
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(2006-11-21) FSFE becomes the legal guardian of the Bacula Project
Kern Sibbald, the founder and lead developer of the Bacula network
backup solution, assigned his copyright to FSFE. "I wanted to
underline the commitment of the Bacula Project to Free Software," said
Kern. "Bacula has always been a community project and we're just
solidifying that for the long-term. I am very thankful that the FSFE
is providing this service because it removes an important administrative
burden from the project, which allows us to focus on the task of
programming."
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(2006-11-13) Launching Freedom Task Force, Co-operating with gpl-violations.org
"We have as a primary goal to help corporations to adhere to the
licences from the onset, rather than to have to enforce violations
later," explains Mr. Coughlan. "We encourage those responsible for
compliance for their company to contact us, so we can work together to
avoid licence compliance problems, rather than having to later solve
problems that could have been avoided in the first place."
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(2006-10-03) DRM.info: Informing about the dangers of controlling private media use
Early this morning, a group of contributing organisations and authors
launched DRM.info, a collaborative information platform about the
potential dangers of Digital Restriction Management (DRM) initiated by
the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE). The contributing groups come
from different areas, such as digital freedom, network activism, consumer
rights and libraries.
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(2006-07-27) GPL Version 3, Draft #2 Published
After six months of public comment, the second public discussion draft of
GPLv3 is now online - responding to public input about patents, Digital
Restrictions Management, and global enforceability among other things.
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(2006-07-12) Commission to Microsoft: Preventing interoperability has a price
European Commission to fine Microsoft 1.5 million Euro per day
retroactively from 16. December 2005, totalling 280.5 million Euro.
Should Microsoft not come into compliance until the end of July 2006,
the daily fines could be doubled. These fines are a reaction to
Microsofts continued lack of compliance with the European Commission
decision to make interoperability information available to competitors
as a necessary precondition to allow fair competition. FSFE has
supported the European Commission from the start of the suit in 2001.
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(2006-06-13) En línea los detalles de la Conferencia Internacional sobre la GPLv3
Como ecuador en el proceso público de consulta de un año para esbozar la
tercera versión de la licencia más importante del Software Libre, la tercera
conferencia internacional sobre la GPLv3 acogerá expertos de Europa y de todo
el mundo.
Se celebrará en el Centre de Cultura Contamporània de Barcelona (CCCB), en el
corazón de la ciudad. Allí, durante los dos días del evento, se sucederán
presentaciones de expertos, incluyendo Richard Stallman, presidente la la
FSF; Eben Moglen, presidente del Software Freedom Law Center; Georg Greve,
presidente de la FSF Europa y Harald Welte, fundador de gpl-violations.org.
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(2006-05-19) Europe to host 3rd International GPLv3 Conference: Barcelona, Spain, June 22nd & 23rd
The conference will take place in Barcelona,
Spain, and the exact venue will be announced soon. In January, a
year-long public consultation process for updating the GNU
General Public License was launched. Commonly called "the GPL",
this licence is used by the majority of Free Software to detail
the distribution terms of the software.
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(2006-05-09) FSFE welcomes KDE e.V. as new associate organisation
The KDE e.V. - a registered non-profit organisation that represents
the K Desktop Environment (KDE®) in legal and financial matters - and
the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) are proud to announce their
associate status, working together for the promotion and protection of
Free Software on users' desktops in Europe and worldwide.
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(2006-04-27) Samba and FSFE: "Microsoft - obstacle to innovation in the digital
society!"
"Businesses and public authorities have to pay prices that are kept high
by Microsoft's refusal to share interoperability information with its
competitors, as is common practice in the industry," explains Andrew
Tridgell, president and founder of the Samba Team in his presentation on
behalf of Free Software Foundation Europe in European Court today.
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(2006-04-27) Microsoft: "Our software patents preclude interoperability"
Carlo Piana, Free Software Foundation Europe's lawyer on the case
explains: "The interventions made perfectly clear that the Blue Bubble
only existed in the lawyers' pleadings. Meanwhile, Microsoft left no
doubt as to the legal nature of that Bubble: a conglomerate of 46
patents that it claims it holds on ADS, whose main effect is to
prevent interoperability and, eventually, competition."
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(2006-04-21) FSFE: "Microsoft locks in customers and pushes software patents to prevent competition."
"Microsoft's software locks in users and now the company is lobbying to get this lock-in effect legalised by software patents" is the basic message of a feature article Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) has published on its
website today.
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(2006-04-03) Sorteo de los portátiles: Los ganadores son...
Un afortunado Fellow de Italia y otro de Holanda ganaron los dos
portátiles HP Compaq con Debian GNU/Linux preinstalado que se sortearon.
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(2006-03-10) FSFE celebrates its fifth birthday
Seeing an even greater need today for strong coordinated actions to
protect everyones freedom
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(2006-02-26) FSFE not fooling around: Join the Fellowship and win a Free Software notebook!
FSFE's way to say thank you for the support: Like last year's PDA,
donated by xtops.de the Free Software Foundation Europe will be
raffling off two HP notebooks to all active Fellows on 1 April this
year. For two lucky Fellows, April Fool's Day will be anything but
foolish.
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(2006-02-16) FSFE to Microsoft: stop complaining, and start complying!
"After several years of investigation, the original ruling in 2004, and
a European Court case lasting close to two years, we now have to conclude
that Microsoft never had any intention to comply with the antitrust
ruling," comments Georg Greve, president of the Free Software
Foundation Europe (FSFE). "We were forced to witness years of delays,
stalling and playing for more time during which Microsoft has made no
attempt to allow interoperability and competition with its
competitors, including Free Software such as Samba."
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(2006-02-14) FKF and FSFE teaming up: FKF official associate organisation of FSF Europe
The Free Knowledge Foundation / Fundación Conocimiento Libre (FKF) and
Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) are proud to announce their new
official associate status, working together for the promotion and
protection of Free Software in Spain.
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(2006-01-26) Proceso atimonopolio de la UE: «Microsoft ofrece un regalo envenenado»
«Ahora parece claro que únicamente era otra técnica de marketing: Ayer
Microsoft actuó como un ladrón que, cuando se le pide que deje la
pistola, te lanza una granada».
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(2005-11-23)
La FSFE solicita intervenir en el proceso antimonopolio contra Microsoft
La Free Software Foundation Europa (FSFE) ha solicitado hoy autorización
para intervenir en el proceso antimonopolio contra Microsoft. Georg
Greve, presidente de la FSFE comentó: «Cuanto más poder tenga Microsoft
para comprar la solidaridad de sus oponentes, más importante será el
compromiso de la FSFE con la libertad e interoperabilidad entre
sistemas».
Últimamente la FSFE ha coincidido con adversarios de la libertad
en varias jurisdicciones: la industria de los derechos de autor está impulsando
la «Directiva Europea para el Respeto a los Derechos de Propiedad Intelectual»
(IPRED2) en Bruselas y Microsoft pudo reescribir las Conclusiones de Viena sobre TIC y Creatividad
para la Cumbre Mundial para la Sociedad de la Información (CMSI) de las Naciones Unidas.
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(2005-10-19)
Early comment on new Microsoft Shared Source Licenses
"Microsoft finally seems to have made a step forward on their long
march towards giving their users freedom: [...] Given previous
Microsoft statements about the Copyleft approach and in particular the
GNU GPL as 'viral', 'cancerous' and 'communist', seeing Microsoft now
publish licenses applying the very same principles seems quite an
evolution."
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(2005-10-14)
FSFE urges European Commission to keep defending European economic interests
"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"
[Leer más...]
(2005-09-30)
Statement of FSFE and FSF Latin America to the 2005 WIPO General Assemblies
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.
[Leer más...]
(2005-09-06)
Announcing the GPL Version 3 Development and Publicity Project (GPLv3)
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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(2005-08-30) TuxMobil GNU/Linux Award 2005 granted
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.
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(2005-07-21) WIPO IIM/3: WSIS PCT: WIPO should prevent software patents, shorten copyright
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:
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(2005-07-06) No software patents in Europe, FSFE requests EPO review instrument
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.
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(2005-06-28) Karlsruhe Memorandum against Software Patents 2005
Members of the European Parliament have been given a copy of the
Karlsruhe Memorandum against Software Patents 2005. Issued by Free
Software Foundation Europe, this memorandum collected more than 200
signatures at this year's GNU/LinuxTag conference in Karlsruhe. Citing scientific evidence, the text argues that software patents in Europe will hurt jobs and innovation. Among the supporters are leaders of some of Europe's biggest trade union groups.
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(2005-06-25) And the Fellowship-PDA goes to...
Giovanni Angoli is the lucky winner of the Sharp SL-C1000 raffled at
GNU/LinuxTag 2005 in Karlsruhe, Germany. FSFE congratulates Giovanni
and thanks Werner Heuser of Xtops.DE who sponsored the PDA for Fellowship
of FSFE!
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(2005-06-08) Raffle of handheld computer with GNU/Linux to a lucky Fellow
Xtops.DE has sponsored a handheld computer which will be raffled on June
25 at 14:00 CEST. The winner will be chosen at random from all FSFE
Fellows whose contribution has been received before that date.
[Leer más...]
(2005-06-07) Microsoft abuses the good will of Ms. Kroes at the expense of European economy
"Microsoft abuses the good will of Ms. Kroes" - "European Commission
is about to enter legal house-to-house fighting!". Comment of the FSFE
on the latest Microsoft proposal. "The European Court decided in
December 2004 that Microsoft is to publish this information
immediately. This proposal, if accepted, will effectively revert the
court decision for the most serious competitor of Microsoft in this
market."
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(2005-06-06) Software patents -- a danger to democracy
Open letter to Mr Borrell Fontelles, President of the European Parliament.
On July 6th, European Parliament will have to decide on the "Software
Patents" directive. By relying on undefined terms and ineffective
limits, the text that the Council has handed to the Parliament would
allow patents on software standards, business methods, and website
development.
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(2005-06-03) GNU/LinuxTag event page now online
Europe's biggest Free Software conference, the GNU/LinuxTag in Karlsruhe, is less than three weeks ahead. The FSFE has set up a page to gather, list and publish information about its activities there.
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(2005-05-31) Join the revolution: internship position at FSFE
"The FSFE is a great place to work, and I've enjoyed almost every
single day. In few other companies or organisations would I have had
the chance to do useful work and learn in an international context like
I did here. Take this chance, if you can."
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(2005-05-20) FSFE Executive Summary 2003-2005
On 7th May 2005, the general assembly of FSFE met in Vienna, Austria to
review the activities of the past year and plan ahead for the next year
to come. As this was the end of the second electorial period for
FSFE's extended executive committee, the executive committee presented
another two-year executive summary.
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(2005-05-02) Software patents vs Microsoft antitrust suit: European Commission is going to undermine some of its best work
Open letter to Mr McCreevy, European Commissioner for Internal Market and Services.
"The European Commission is currently involved in a historic antitrust
suit with Microsoft. [...] Unfortunately, that unique success is now in
danger of becoming a meaningless victory."
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(2005-04-19) FSFE welcomes FSF Latin America
After some months of discussions including FSFE president Georg Greve,
a team of Free Software advocates in Latin America published their declaration
of intent to join the global network of Free Software Foundations.
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(2005-04-13) FSFE statement at WIPO IIM, Geneva
Statement at Inter-Sessional, Inter-Governmental Meeting (IIM), 11-13
April 2005: "We explicitly support the Friends of Development in their
statement
that no tool should ever be promoted for its own sake and should
therefore be beyond review. [...] Essential building blocks of human
creativity, such as access to knowledge and freedom to participate in
society and economy should once again become the norm, not the
exception. [...]"
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(2005-04-05) Las patentes de software ponen en peligro los Normas Internacionales de Información Financiera (NIIF)
Carta abierta Asociación Europea de Empresas de Tecnología de la Información y la Comunicación (EICTA), acérrimos defensores de las patentes de software: «Deseamos informarle de cómo las patentes de software pueden ser una amenaza para las Normas Internacionales de Información Financiera (NIIF/IFRS). Dado que todas las ideas usadas en estos estándares pueden ser implementadas en software, pueden estar sujetas a patentabilidad».
[Leer más...]
(2005-03-31) How to make Microsoft respect European Authorities
The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) and the Samba Team have
presented terms explaining how Microsoft could be brought into
compliance with the decision of the European Court of First Instance
of December 2004.
[Leer más...]
(2005-03-21) FSFE to help bring Microsoft to its feet
Pushed by the FSFE, the EU antitrust case against Microsoft is gathering momentum again. "We will help the Commission to bring Microsoft to its feet and move towards re-establishing competition", Georg Greve, FSFE's president.
[Leer más...]
(2005-03-07) Las ciudades Europeas se verán afectadas por las patentes de software
Carta Abierta a Catherine Parmentier, Directora General de EUROCITIES:
"Con la introducción de patentes de software, las ciudades europeas
tendrán que afrontar un dramático aumento de costos y una creciente
dificultad legal con serio riesgo para las administraciones."
[Leer más...]
(2005-02-28) ¡Únete a la comunidad y protege tu libertad!
"Nos ponemos en pie para proteger nuestra libertad de moldear y
participar en una sociedad digital que respete la libertad y la
privacidad." Con este eslogan, la Free Software Foundation Europa (FSFE)
arrancó su programa Fellowship en la feria del Software Libre FOSDEM
este fin de semana en Bruselas.
[Leer más...]
(2005-02-11) Microsoft seeking to bypass decisions of European Court
Microsoft has published an agreement which allows Free Software projects
like SAMBA to use the software interface information, but bans it from
publishing the software as Free Software.
[Leer más...]
(2005-02-11) UN WGIG: Commented Papers Available
On 1st February 2005, the United Nations Working Group on
Internet Governance (WGIG) published a set of 20 issue papers
concerning "Internet Governance." Together with its associate
organisation La Fundación Vía Libre, the Free Software
Foundation Europe managed to comment on the paper on "Cyber
security, cybercrime", which, among other things, asked to
outlaw the art of finding elegant solutions to non-obvious
problems ("hacking") and the paper on "Intellectual Property
Rights", which for instance asked to "balance human rights
with the interests of rights-holders."
[Leer más...]
(2005-02-07) Las patentes de software perjudican a la banca
Una vez que se extienda el uso de Basel II, puede darse un gran
incremento de pleitos por violación de patentes de software en este
area, de forma global. Cualquier banco, o cualquiera de sus clientes
con software basado en Basel II, puede convertirse en el objetivo de
tales acciones legales ─el riesgo es incalculable y puede significar
procesos de varios miles de millones de Euros.
[Leer más...]
(2005-02-07) TUX&GNU@school 8th edition
The column TUX&GNU@school 8th edition is now available. In this edition,
Mario Fux presents GAMGI, Skolelinux and the KDE Edutainment project.
In future, the column will be published in five languages (German,
English, French, Swedish and Spanish).
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(2005-01-03) Software patents are bad for your health
Software patents are putting the wealth of the software patent lobby over
the health of citizens in Europe and around the world.
[Leer más...]
(2004-12-22) Un gran día para SAMBA, la Free Software Foundation y Europa
Bo Versterdorf, Presidente del Tribunal Europeo, rechazó hoy la
apelación de Microsoft encaminada a retrasar la aplicación de las
sanciones.
"Aquellos que valoran la libertad y la libre competencia han recibido
dos estupendos regalos de Navidad esta semana. El primero, el nuevo
miembro de la UE, Polonia, no ha permitido la introducción de las
innovadoras , y devastadoras para el empleo, patentes de software a
través de la puerta de atrás de la diplomacia. Y el segundo, el
Tribunal Europeo ha decidido que Microsoft no debería tener otros
cuatro años para seguir perjudicando a la libre competencia". Dijo
Georg Greve, Presidente de la Free Software Foundation Europa.
[Leer más...]
(2004-12-10) How much does freedom influence your life?
The Free Software Foundation Europe believes that freedom is
priceless and works hard for freedom in the digital society.
Being a non-profit organisation, much work is done by
volunteers, but not everything can be done that way. Working
for something as priceless as freedom does have a cost. That
is why we would like you to support our work.
[Leer más...]
(2004-12-06) Software patents detrimental to European power supply business
The European Union is on the way to introduce a legal basis for software
patents in Europe. While you may consider this a topic outside your
daily business, it is likely to become the cause of serious security
problems to European power supplies.
[Leer más...]
(2004-11-25) La FSFE se convierte en observador en la OMPI
En el marco del proyecto del equipo de FSFE OMPI, la FSFE
trabajará junto a otros actores para cambiar la OMPI desde una
organización que ha orientado sus acciones sólo hacia la
monopolización del conocimiento hacia una que se proponga el
crecimiento de la riqueza intelectual de toda la humanidad a través
de un bagaje de herramientas más flexible, sostenible y
efectivo.
[Leer más...]
(2004-11-24) La libertad no tiene precio, pero sí tiene un coste
Aquellos que anhelan ver recuperada la libertad de mercado, deberían
advertir que nunca nadie con la cartera llena va a desviar el apoyo que
ya ha dado la FSFE, tal como sucedió con CCIA. Esta independencia no
tiene precio, pero si tiene un coste. Lo único que podría detenernos es
la falta de recursos debido a la falta de apoyo.
[Leer más...]
(2004-11-23) First South Tyrolean Free Software Conference
As Free Software becomes even more important in South Tyrol, the
GNU/Linux User Group Bozen/Bolzano/Bulsan has developed the traditional
Linux Day into the three day South Tyrolean Free Software Conference.
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(2004-11-09) For the FSFE, the battle continues
Microsoft has steadily been soliciting supporters of the European
Commission antitrust case to withdraw their support for the Commission
by offering a series of financial settlements. The agreement with Sun
Microsystems to withdraw has now been joined by financial settlements
with Novell and the CCIA, in which they also agreed to withdraw from the
case.
[Leer más...]
(2004-11-01) A compulsory insurance against software patents is like firefighting with petrol!
The preceding European Commission (EC) was campaigning actively for the
introduction of software patents in Europe. This campaign was against
the information and evidence showing that this would lead to
considerable risk to the European economies.
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(2004-10-25) Now accepting donations by credit card via PayPal
Supporting the work of FSFE has just become easier for those
who prefer to donate by credit card and/or via the
PayPal service.
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(2004-10-14) Asegurar el incremento de la Riqueza Intelectual
Declaración general: "Estamos convencidos de que nuevas respuestas
a veces requieren nuevas preguntas, y no una más cuidadosa repetición
de las viejas preguntas.[...] Necesitamos una Organización Mundial
de la Riqueza Intelectual, dedicada a la investigación y promoción
de formas nuevas e imaginativas de estimular la producción y
diseminación del conocimiento." Para ver la lista de firmantes,
siga este link, por favor.
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(2004-10-04) El grupo Allianz sufrirá a consecuencia de las patentes de software
Ha considerado alguna vez ofrecer a los agentes de bolsa un seguro
general contra el riesgo de perder dinero? Tan absurdo como pueda
parecer, en este momento la Comisión Europea está considerando
seriamente medidas equivalentes.
[Leer más...]
(2004-09-29) MS contra UE: "No hay acuerdo a la vista, FSFE lista para la battalla"
Free Software Foundation Europa (FSFE) tiene dudas sobre los
crecientes rumores de que Microsoft pretende llegara una cuerdo
en el caso antimonopolio contra la Comisión Europea, que llegará
al tribunal al final de esta semana.
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(2004-09-24)
Aniversario de la decisión del Parlamento Europeo relativa a las patentes
de software
La Free Software Foundation Europa (FSFE) conmemora el aniversario de la
decisión del Parlamento Europeo relativa a las patentes de software, del
24 de septiembre. "El parlamento votó a favor de una fórmula restrictiva
de concesión de patentes de software en Europa. Esa decisión fue
apropiada ya que tuvo en cuenta las numerosas recomendaciones de
científicos de todo el mundo. Por esta razón queremos animar al
parlamento a mantener una actitud, sobre esta materia, que sea
consistente con su decisión previa - resistir la presión de ciertos
'lobbys'.", afirma el presidente de la FSFE Georg Greve.
(2004-09-20) FSFE: "Microsoft's bugs result in the corporation having a multiple personality" - "customers should know who they are dealing with!"
Having been plagued by permanent problems with viruses, worms and
other bugs, software-giant Microsoft seems to be developing a multiple
personality. "Microsoft's customers should wonder about the sanity of
their business partner", remarks Joachim Jakobs, Press Speaker for the
Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE).
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(2004-09-15) FSFE mourns death of Ralf Niemand
Free Software activist Ralf Niemand, member of the Wilhelmshaven
GNU/Linux User Group, contributor to the SkoleLinux project and
volunteer of the Free Software Foundation Europe died of terminal
illness on September 14th 2004. His death was much too early and came
as a shock to all who have known him. He will be missed.
(2004-09-06) Open letter to Prime Minister Dr. Balkenende
Europe should conserve a competitive advantage and prohibit a legal basis
for software patents: "During the dutch Presidency of the European Union
you have the best opportunity to initiate this revision."
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(2004-08-16)
Introducing Wilhelm Tux, the new FSFE associate
The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) and Wilhelm Tux proudly
declare that Wilhelm Tux, a Swiss Free Software organisation, has
officially become associate organisation of the FSFE.
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(2004-08-12)
Donations to the FSFE in the United Kingdom
Due to substantial bank fees charged for international money
transfers, small donations or standing orders are too expensive
to be send directly to the Free Software Foundation Europe bank
account. To rectify this, FSFE in july 2004 entered into an
agreement with UK based associate organisation AFFS to collect
donations and transfer them in larger batches.
FSFE welcomes donations through the simple interface at (only bank cards from UK are accepted):
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(2004-08-05)
Software patents no bigger threat to Free Software than to proprietary
software
In reaction to the decision by the City of Munich to re-evaluate its
migration plans to Free Software, the Free Software Foundation Europe
points out that software patents are equally a significant problem for
both Free Software and proprietary software alike.
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(2004-08-02) Open letter to IBM
Software patents will destroy the foundations of IBM's future:
"So while IBM is transforming in reaction to the arms race, upon its
sudden end, IBM will find itself having become a grotesquely deformed
giant with a suddenly useless weapon where all its energies go into
sustaining that deformation."
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(2004-07-27) FSFE in front of European Court
FSFE to challenge Microsoft in its appeal against European Commission:
Among general interests of Free Software, the FSFE will specifically
be representing the interests of the SAMBA team, a Free Software
cooperation developing the only remaining competing implementation of
the SMB/CIFS protocols that permit interoperability between various
operating systems and the MS Windows family.
[Leer más...]
(2004-07-26) RSS feeds of news and event announcements available
Our web team has created automatic RSS feeds for news and upcoming
events. Feeds are focus and language dependent.
The URL for the news feed is
http://www.focus.fsfeurope.org/news/news.language.rss,
while you find the event feed at
http://www.focus.fsfeurope.org/events/events.language.rss.
For example, for German speaking news and the German focus, you would
choose http://www.germany.fsfeurope.org/news/news.de.rss.
For your convenience, the news and event pages contain links to the RSS
feed URLs.
(2004-07-06) Open letter to Fraunhofer Gesellschaft
"Research should be able to earn its money also on the market!" - say
politicians - so we, the Free Software Foundation Europe, understand
when researchers use creative ways to get a better income. But even
researchers should take care not to bite the hand that feeds them. This
danger is real, especially with the actual software patent discussion.
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(2004-07-01) FSFE issues call for donations
The projects of the FSFE are multifaceted: participation in the
German government's delegation at the "World Summit on the
Information Society (WSIS)", consulting with the European Union
during the establishment of the framework programmes,
participation in AGNULA, a project to build a fully Free
Software distribution for professional musicians and multimedia
authors and also the maintenance and advancement of the GNU
General Public License (GPL). This diversity costs a lot of
money: travels round the world, production of information and
marketing material, personnel cost.
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(2004-06-29) Join our translators and proofreaders team!
With the growing attention the FSF Europe attracts in many countries, the
need has arised to build up a flexible, responsive, and well coordinated
translator team.
Translating and proofreading texts is a precious contribution to the work
of the FSF Europe and an excellent chance to spontaneously take part in
the activities of the FSF Europe without long-term obligations.
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(2004-06-21)
AGNULA: a "vivid ecosystem" for developers and users of free multimedia
software
"Creating artistic licence by Free Software technology" might have
been the motto of AGNULA (A GNU/Linux Audio distribution -
www.agnula.info): within the scope of the EU project two GNU/Linux
distributions for Debian and Red Hat were developed that are targeted
specifically at professional musicians and multimedia authors.
[Leer más...]
(2004-06-10) Report and pictures from South America available
Having toured South America from May 20th, 2004 until June 10th, 2004,
Georg Greve put a short summary of his activities there online along with
some pictures.
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(2004-05-19) Software patents: A bad day for Europe
"Europe is about to finally give up on the goal of its heads of states
and governments to become the 'most competitive knowledge-based
region' until 2010 and has repeatedly failed democratically. It is
unfortunate that the optimism and trust placed in the German
government was somewhat premature. Yesterday was not a good day for
Europe and Germany!"
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(2004-05-14) FSFE welcomes German government on its way towards a clear position in the discussion around software patents
The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) "welcomes the commitment
of the Federal Government of Germany to freedom from software patents
as being of extreme importance for innovation in Europe", Georg
Greve, president of FSFE, comments in a press release.
[Leer más...]
(2004-05-10) APRIL disassociates from FSFE
Today the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) complied with the
explicit request to please remove the "Association for Promotion and
Research in Libre Computing" (APRIL) from the list of associate
organisations. The request was made by APRIL president and FSFE
member Frederic Couchet along with his resignation from FSFE.
[Leer más...]
(2004-05-10) Open letter to all citizens of Europe
What happens in government, society and economy as a whole if these developments are not stopped? We bar people from being creative. We put societal development into the hands of bureaucrats bullying us for their own benefit at every turn. To use the words of the Czech President Vaclav Klaus "The EU is not about freedom and openness, but about bureaucratisation, regulation and harmonisation". If we leave this discussion to others, we may prove him right.
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(2004-05-04) European action week against Software Patents (SWPAT)
The Free Software Foundation Europe and the Foundation for a Free
Informational Infrastructure endorse an action week from May 10th
to 14th to inform citizens, economy and politics about the harmful
consequences of this initiative. In the course of this action week
demonstrations and panel discussions in many European cities will
take place. To inform you ex ante we have enclosed the joint
position of FSFE and FFII concerning software patents (see below).
[Leer más...]
(2004-03-24) FSFE welcomes three new members from Austria
After years of successful cooperation through their membership in the
"Verein zur Förderung Freier Software" (FFS), Austria's associate
organisation of the FSF Europe, Georg Jakob, Karin Kosina and Reinhard
Müller have now officially joined the ranks of the FSFE.
[Leer más...]
(2004-02-18) FSF defends the GNU GPL against SCO attacks
The FSFs have no doubt that the litigation between SCO against IBM and
Novell cannot affect the users of the GNU/Linux operating system.
Professor Eben Moglen of Columbia University, pro-bono general counsel
of FSF North America, has published a paper that will help Free
Software developers and end-users understand the legal issues and
business risks involved in using the Linux kernel.
[Leer más...]
(2004-02-09) Article: "On 'Intellectual Property' and Indigenous Peoples"
Article by Georg Greve:
"The system and ideology of 'intellectual property' has evolved
exclusively to cater to the needs of large Northern media
corporations. Northern societies, and in particular their artists and
authors, have massive problems with that system themselves.
It is precisely for this system that the digital divide and current power
inequalities are as large as they are."
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(2003-12-15) Debriefing: World Summit on the Information Society
(Geneva) From December 10th until 12th, 2003 the World
Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) took place in Geneva,
Switzerland, adopting on United Nations level a Declaration of
Principles and Plan of Action towards a global information
society.
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(2003-12-01) WSIS: Free Software, Free Society
(Geneva) During the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS),
the Civil Society Patents, Copyright, Trademarks (PCT) Working Group
is holding a workshop "Free Software, Free Society" with a group of
top speakers, including Richard Stallman and Lawrence Lessig.
The workshop will take place December 10th, 2003 from
17:00-20:00 in the Palexpo building in Geneva, Switzerland.
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(2003-07-12) Free Software prominently represented at the UN- Conference
(Karlsruhe)
From July 15th to 18th, a preparative conference towards the World
Summit on the Information Society will be held in Paris, at which the
future and destination of the information- and science- society shall
be discussed as requested by the UN- General Assembly.
As a nominee from the coordinating circle of the German Civil Society
for the WSIS, Georg Greve, president of the FSF Europe will take part
in the meeting as a member of the German governmental delegation.
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(2003-06-24) FSF Europe concludes two successful first years.
(Milano) Last weekend, the Free Software Foundation Europe held its
2003 general assembly in Milano, Italy. After two years of
operation, it was time to draw a first summary and also hold
elections.
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(2003-06-21) Report: Two year executive summary
The 2003 general assembly of the FSF Europe in Milano, Italy on June
21st 2003 seems like a good opportunity to briefly recap some of the
activities during the first two operational years of the FSF Europe.
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(2003-05-20) Article: Free Software in Europe
The Spring
2003 issue of the Public
Service Review - European Union with a foreword by Romano
Prodi is featuring an article by Georg
C. F. Greve, president of the FSF Europe. The article
explains some of the major benefits Free Software has to offer
and how they can be built upon.
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(2003-02-08) Larry Lessig receives FSF Award for the Advancement of Free Software
Press-release of the Free Software Foundation: "Brussels,
Belgium - Saturday, February 8, 2003 - The Free Software Foundation
(FSF) bestowed today its fifth annual FSF Award for the Advancement of
Free Software. FSF President and founder, Richard Stallman, presented
the award to Professor Lawrence Lessig for promoting understanding of
the political dimension of free software, including the idea that
'code is law'. Lessig has also promoted ideas similar to free
software in other related fields."
[Leer más...]
(2003-02-03) Fiduciary Licence Agreement (FLA) V1.0 released
Press-release of the FSF Europe: "The Free Software
Foundation Europe is proud to announce the first publicly
available version of its Fiduciary
Licence Agreement (FLA); an agreement that will help securing
the legal stability of Free Software by allowing the FSF Europe to
act as the fiduciary for Free Software authors and projects."
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(2002-12-18) FSF Europe calls for participation
Press-release of the FSF Europe: "The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) invites all companies, organisations and research institutes interested in Free Software projects funded by the European Commission to join their effort."
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(2002-06-13) FFII Associated with FSF Europe
The Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII) is now an
official associate organisation of the Free Software Foundation Europe
(FSFE). The FFII is the first associate organisation of the FSF Europe
based in Germany.
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(2002-06-04) Two Expressions of Interest (EoI) from FSF Europe
In response to a
call from the European Commission, the FSF Europe submitted an expression
of interest for each of the instruments of the sixth framework
programme (FP6).
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(2002-05-27) FSF Europe completes successful first year
On May 26th 2002, the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSF
Europe) finishes its second general assembly, completing the first
year of activities. Members from Sweden, Italy, Germany and France
drew a summary of last years activities, analyzed the current
situation of Free Software and exchanged plans and visions for the
upcoming year.
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(2002-04-30) Recommendation by the FSF Europe and supporting parties
The FSF Europe and supporting parties has submitted a recommendation for
the 6th European Community Framework Programme:
"Free Software is a concept that has
fundamentally changed the way some parts of the IT
sector are working towards a more stable, lasting and
sustainable approach with higher dynamics and increased
efficiency. It is obvious that the first region to adopt
and support this principle on a larger scale can profit
enormously and get a head-start in the information age."
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(2002-04-28) Invitation to European Copyright Directive Alert miniconference
On Monday 29 April 2002, at 6pm in London, we invite you to
join the European Copyright Directive Alert
miniconference. Organised by the Campaign for Digital Rights
it will explain the dangers of the EUCD. Unless it is stopped before
December 2002, it will become legal in each European
country.
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(2002-04-24) FSF Europe present at first LiLit meeting
On Friday 26 April 2002, the Free Software Foundation
Europe will be present at the first LiLiT meeting in
Liège, Belgium. During this evening (night ?-) session,
we will focus on the best means to explain the ethical
value of Free Software. A global view of the on going
actions will hopefully allow everyone to figure out how
to promote and defend the Free Software ideals.
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(2002-01-31) FSF Europe at the Free and Open Source Software Developers Meeting
Between the 16th and 17th of February, 2002, the Free
and Open Source Software Developers Meeting will take
place in Brussels, Belgium. Among the visitors will be
Richard M. Stallman, president of the Free Software
Foundation and Georg C. F. Greve, president of the Free
Software Foundation Europe. The FSF Europe welcomes all
members of the press who wish to meet the members and
volunteers of the foundation.
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(2002-01-18) ANSOL becomes associated organisation of the FSF Europe
"This collaboration is a very important step for the Portuguese and
European free software community. Problems faced by the free software
community in Portugal are similar to those faced in other European
countries; by joining forces with FSFE we can solve this problems more
efficiently" said Jaime Villate, founding member of ANSOL.
[Leer más...]
(2001-12-17) "Freedom, Quality and Fraternity" OLinux interview iwth Georg C. F. Greve
"[...] Keep on spreading the word. What we do today will
influence the future of mankind for the next 200 years to come -
we have to make sure that people understand the issues of
Free Software and the importance of freedom. [...]
Freedom counts! "
[Leer más...]
(2001-11-28) FSF Europe appoints new Vice President
Jonas Oberg was appointed new Vice President of the FSF
Europe: "The future of Free Software depends a lot on
what we do today. I plan to work to preserve the ability to
use and develop Free Software in all of its forms, for
example by helping to extend the efforts already underway
against software patents and helping the media, government
and companies understand the underlying issues of Free
Software."
[Leer más...]
(2001-11-19) We Speak about Free Software
Launch of the "We speak about Free
Software" campaign: There are compelling reasons to
think and speak about Free Software and its philosophy. It
is rather common knowledge this applies to society as a
whole, but it has not yet been widely understood that it
benefits companies, as well. Therefore the FSF Europe launches
this campaign on behalf and with support of several Free
Software companies.
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(2001-09-20) FSF Europe receives charitable status in Germany
FSF Europe e.V. (the central association) receives
confirmation of its charitable status in Germany by the authorities.
(2001-08-26) Georg Greve talks about "Copyright in the internet age"
Slides (in German) available at
http://gnuhh.org/work/presentations/IFA-2001/.
(2001-07-20) Richard Stallman inaugurates Free Software Foundation-India
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(2001-07-16) FSF Europe in German magazine
The FSF Europe is mentioned in the German magazine
FOCUS issue 29/2001, page 106 in a
story about the GNU/LinuxTag.
(2001-06-29) FSF Europe at LinuxTag and Libre Software Meeting
The FSF Europe will be present at the LinuxTag and
Libre Software Meeting for the first time. Please see the
press release for additional information.
[Leer más...]
(2001-05-07) FSF Europe general assembly is over
The FSF Europe general assembly is over. See the press release
and photos
by Olivier Berger and photos by Peter Gerwinski.
[Leer más...]
(2001-04-24) First general assembly of the Free Software Foundation Europe
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(2001-04-24) Free Software Foundation Europe finishes founding process
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