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Microsoft to allow Eclipse, Mozilla licences for WP7 apps

...are suitable to fit with the Marketplace APA," he said. Notable shiftHowever, Free Software Foundation Europe chief Karsten Gerloff said on Wednesday that the list... Read more

9 March, 2011 by David Meyer

Lobbyists clash over open standards in Europe

The Free Software Foundation Europe has launched a strong defence of open standards, after... Read more

18 October, 2010

YaCy P2P search engine sees first release

...perceived privacy threats inherent in Google. The YaCy project, backed by the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE), announced the release on Monday. Unlike rivals such... Read more

29 November, 2011

BSA: Open standards will 'increase e-government costs'

...needs, maturity and market support". However, open-source advocates such as the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) complained that the EIFv2, compared with the first... Read more

1 March, 2011 by David Meyer

Ubuntu 'not necessarily competing' with Windows 7

...and we've created this environment." Karsten Gerloff, the president of the Free Software Foundation Europe, was on the same panel as Holt, and said... Read more

23 September, 2010 by David Meyer

FSF keeps pushing for Microsoft server protocols

The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) has applied to intervene in a case Microsoft... Read more

25 November, 2005 by Ingrid Marson

FSF berates apathy over Microsoft antitrust case

Georg Greve, president of the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE), criticised the IT industry on Wednesday for not... Read more

23 February, 2006 by Ingrid Marson

EC's proposed antitrust fine 'too low'

The Free Software Foundation Europe said on Wednesday that the fines that the European... Read more

28 December, 2005 by Ingrid Marson

Microsoft: Linux is anti-commercial

...the Information Society (WSIS) conference, the software giant admitted on Friday. The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) is unhappy that the document was changed and... Read more

25 November, 2005 by Ingrid Marson

Coders urged to take up open source in downturn

...do well to look into free software, Georg Greve, president of the Free Software Foundation Europe, said in a speech at the CeBIT technology conference... Read more

3 March, 2009 by David Meyer

Linux 'needs DRM support' for consumer success

...if it does not add support for copy-restriction technologies. But the Free Software Foundation Europe countered this claim on Thursday, saying that consumers have... Read more

7 April, 2006 by Ingrid Marson

Bush's EU man attacked for Microsoft links

The Free Software Foundation Europe has criticised President Bush's decision to nominate a... Read more

8 August, 2005 by Ingrid Marson

Microsoft admits to standards ignorance pre-OOXML

...very similar thing happened; suddenly the room was overcrowded with Microsoft partners," Free Software Foundation Europe president Georg Greve told ZDNet.co.uk in August... Read more

23 June, 2008 by Andrew Donoghue

Critics brand OOXML a Microsoft 'marketing tool'

XML author Tim Bray has accused Microsoft of pursuing OOXML standardisation for marketing purposes, while others claim the ISO process is 'broken' and 'politicised' Read more

18 April, 2008 by Tom Espiner

ODF supporters hold 'Document Freedom Day'

...of the OpenDocumentFormat Alliance (ODF Alliance) and other organisations, such as the Free Software Foundation Europe, which is currently hosting DFD's website. Despite the... Read more

27 March, 2008 by Liam Tung

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