Happy Software Freedom Day!

We work for software freedom every day, but today is the day we mark to celebrate Free Software. Over 500 teams in 90 countries are holding events,  meetings and parties, for example in Vienna and Leipzig. Right ahead of this special day, FSFE’s Executive Director Christian Holz (2nd left) and I (left) yesterday got together Read more »

Fresh air at WIPO, but old habits die hard

Last week WIPO held a conference on “Intellectual property and public policy issues”. That WIPO finally starts to consider the real consequences of the rules it is making is clearly a good thing. But apart from some very good contributions by people from the UN system, the conference quickly acquired the bitter taste of a Read more »