Tag Archives: Free Software

What makes a Free Software company?

Posted on 15. March, 2009 by Georg Greve

(The debates on the European Software Strategy came across several issues that are of general interest, but the debates themselves cannot be disclosed for reasons of procedural confidentiality. Instead, this article takes one issue and discusses it from a personal … 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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So this is what hit Microsoft…

Posted on 20. September, 2007 by Georg Greve

The past two months have been interesting in the Chinese sense. A primary culprit of that was Microsoft’s failed attempt to push their proprietary MS-OOXML format through ISO. But there were also talks and meetings with ministers (see [1][2]) to … Continue reading →

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Submit your Free Software projects for the Trophees du Libre

Posted on 30. July, 2007 by Georg Greve

Cetril, the “Centre Europeen de Transfert et de Recherche en Informatique Libre” is once again organising the Trophees du Libre, an award for Free Software projects in various categories, focussed on unknown and innovative projects. The web page is now … Continue reading →

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Mountains+Geeks+Barbecue+Freedom=Bergtagung

Posted on 18. July, 2007 by Georg Greve

FSFE Fellow Alex Antener reminded me today that some of our Swiss Team set up the Bergtagung for next weekend in the beautiful Swiss Alps mountain town Siat. The purpose of the Bergtagung is to have a meeting open minds, … 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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