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UK firms vent anger at software patents

...Protect Innovation project is being run by the UK arm of the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII), which hopes to gather testimony showing... Read more

22 October, 2004 by Graeme Wearden

Software patent battle set to flare up again

...of those who oppose the introduction of software patents, such as The Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure. "The EICTA is repeating the same dubious... Read more

29 October, 2004 by Graeme Wearden

Anti-patent demo planned in Brussels

The Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure is planning a protest against the Computer... Read more

14 February, 2005 by Ingrid Marson

Microsoft voted 'Best Campaigner against OOXML'

Microsoft has been awarded a prize by the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure for the debacle surrounding its Office Open... Read more

2 October, 2007 by Tom Espiner

Massachusetts may embrace Microsoft Office

US state has issued proposed technical guidelines that include Microsoft's Office Open XML on the list of 'open format' standards Read more

3 July, 2007 by Martin LaMonica

Patent Office considers Wiki peer review

...one of the Gowers recommendations under consideration was cautiously welcomed by the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII), a pressure group that campaigns against... Read more

13 December, 2006 by Tom Espiner

FFII slams EC taskforce over software patents

...Taskforce into intellectual property rights, saying it wrongly promotes software patents. The Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII) claimed the report into intellectual property... Read more

29 November, 2006 by Tom Espiner

MPs: Open source faces exclusion in schools

...a group of organisations which includes the Open Source Consortium, SchoolForge, FFII (Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure) and the UKUUG (UK Unix and Open... Read more

27 November, 2006 by Richard Thurston

Court rejects patent for form-filling program

...the sun would have been patentable," said Rufus Pollock, director of the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII), a not-for-profit organisation dedicated... Read more

27 October, 2006 by Richard Thurston

Software patent war ignites again

...of the three groups' joint motion can be found here (PDF). The Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure also opposes the EPLA, and on Thursday... Read more

21 September, 2006 by Matthew Broersma

Europe defends tech taskforce

...the interests of the economic minority," as claimed by Benjamin Henrion, a Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure activist on Wednesday. "While most enterprises in... Read more

6 July, 2006 by Tom Espiner

EU taskforce 'not representing' small businesses

...by large IT businesses such as Intel, IBM, Microsoft and Cisco. The Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII), an association which campaigns to promote... Read more

5 July, 2006 by Tom Espiner

EC: Software is not patentable

...the European Parliament's decision to reject the software patent directive. The Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII), which has doggedly campaigned against software... Read more

24 May, 2006 by Ingrid Marson

European Parliament blocks patent liberalisation

...proposal would have resulted in more litigation and more software patents. The Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII) was also concerned about its implications... Read more

16 March, 2006 by Ingrid Marson

DRM is failing, MPs told

...s hearing also included contributions from the Open Rights Group and the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure. Both groups expressed strong opposition to DRM... Read more

2 February, 2006 by Graeme Wearden

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