Category Archives: Free Software Foundation Europe

WIPO SCP/13 – some conclusions

Posted on 29. March, 2009 by Georg Greve

A very productive week of plenary discussions which culminated in Friday’s difficult informal consultations behind closed doors at the SCP/13 demonstrated that WIPO has already come a long way, but a lot remains to be done. In many ways, this … Continue reading →

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Some pointers on European Software Strategy, WIPO and further reading

Posted on 15. March, 2009 by Georg Greve

It’s been one of “those” months. Again. First and foremost, the European Software Strategy has taken up a lot of time and energy for myself and others in FSFE. Having been invited to contribute our expertise to the process of … Continue reading →

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Why the Commission is doing the right thing on antitrust

Posted on 10. February, 2009 by Georg Greve

Previously on “European Commission Antitrust”… Free Software Foundation Europe has been supporting the European Commission’s DG Competition in its antitrust work since 2001, when it first offered its expertise to the former Competition Commissioner Mario Monti. In 2003 it brought … Continue reading →

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Topic of 2009: Interoperability

Posted on 9. February, 2009 by Georg Greve

It seems the topic of 2008 will also be the key topic of 2009. This is hardly surprising. Interoperability is at the connecting point of innovation and standardisation, of Free Software and proprietary software, of SME’s and large enterprises, and … Continue reading →

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Catching up with the backblog

Posted on 9. February, 2009 by Georg Greve

As you will have noticed, FSFE had some issues with its previous blogging platform. In theory, they should have been resolved much earlier, but as Yogi Berra correctly stated: “In theory, there is no difference between practice and theory. In … Continue reading →

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Debian: GNU FDL without invariant sections is Free

Posted on 12. March, 2006 by Georg Greve

Ever since it was first released there was a very controversial discussion about the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) by some people of the Debian Project. The escalation did not end before some people repeatedly asked to remove all DFSG … Continue reading →

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