Author Archives: Georg Greve

About Georg Greve

Georg Greve is a technologist and entrepreneur. Background as a software developer and physicist. Head of product development and Chairman at Vereign AG. Founding president of the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE). Previously president and CEO at Kolab Systems AG, a Swiss Open Source ISV. In 2009 Georg was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon by the Federal Republic of Germany for his contributions to Open Source and Open Standards.

NZZ: War of Standards (in German)

Posted on 20. June, 2007 by Georg Greve

The Swiss newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ) has an interesting article "Krieg der Standards"  ("War of Standards") about the MS-OOXML vs ODF debate. This is an article worth reading, as it exposes quite well the issues of standardisation, the dangers … Continue reading →

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Why more standards mean less competition

Posted on 15. June, 2007 by Georg Greve

The Open Forum Europe (OFE), one of Europe’s industry groups, has published a white paper on Dual Standards that is available for download as PDF. Since Microsoft is making the claim that competition on standards is a good thing, this … Continue reading →

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Back from India

Posted on 15. June, 2007 by Georg Greve

Around 06:20 this morning I finally arrived back in Europe after a very interesting last day in Mumbai at the Homi Bhabha Center for Science Education (HBCSE) with Nagarjuna and his great crew. The Free Software group at the HBCSE … Continue reading →

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Last night in India

Posted on 13. June, 2007 by Georg Greve

Tonight is my last night in India after one and a half extremely busy weeks that took me to Mumbai, Calcutta and Trivandrum and allowed me to meet some old and new friends in the global Free Software community. Since … Continue reading →

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Back from Transylvania (unbitten)

Posted on 19. May, 2007 by Georg Greve

I’ve just arrived back home from the eLiberatica conference 2007 in Brasov, Romania. The conference itself was great fun: The organisers were extremely good hosts and the crowd engaged in the presentations and discussions during and after sessions. Furthermore, Brasov … Continue reading →

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OLPC = “One License Per Child?”

Posted on 29. April, 2007 by Georg Greve

The past days found me attending the Yale A2K2 conference in New Haven where an insipring group of people were discussing issues of the knowledge society and how to enable Access to Knowledge for everyone. Naturally, Free Software played a … Continue reading →

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FSFLA liberates tax declaration in Brazil

Posted on 28. April, 2007 by Georg Greve

As featured in my March entry “When governments mandate proprietary software,” Brazil had mandated that all citizens file their tax declaration with a proprietary program distributed by the government. Alexandre Oliva of FSFLA, FSFE‘s sister organisation in Latin America, reverse … Continue reading →

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Update on OpenXML vs ODF

Posted on 20. March, 2007 by Georg Greve

Thanks to one of my favorite web comics, Everybody loves Eric Raymond, I discovered two rather interesting articles in the OpenXML and ODF debate. The first article is by Miguel de Icaza from end of January in which he says … Continue reading →

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LWN.net: The road to freedom in the embedded world

Posted on 16. March, 2007 by Georg Greve

I wrote an article for LWN.net about the status of Free Software in the embedded world and where we need to intensify our efforts. For your convenience, I’m mirroring the article here, as well: The road to freedom in the … Continue reading →

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UNESCO publishing paper on “Ethical Implications of Emerging Technologies”

Posted on 14. March, 2007 by Georg Greve

UNESCO has published a paper on "Ethical Implications of Emerging Technologies" which follows up on discussions during the UN World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) and UN Internet Governance Forum (IGF). The paper also talks about the OLPC project … Continue reading →

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