Linux Alliance protests software patenting
News International organisation The EuroLinux Alliance announces Friday an online petition against the European Parliament's proposed introduction of software patents. The EuroLinux petition against software patents has received the blessing of Europe's...
[June 16, 2000, 10:27]
Linux gurus congratulate BT on patent nonsense
News The EuroLinux consortium say BT should complimented for "providing the world with a brilliant proof of the absurdity of software patents". The EuroLinux consortium believes that software patenting stifles creativity and competition and is...
[June 22, 2000, 10:35]
Europeans vote against software patents
News This follows a campaign by a number of organisations representing the interests of programmer spearheaded by the EuroLinux Alliance. Pilch Hartmut, the German spokesman for the EuroLinux and director of the Free Information Infrastructure (FII...
[November 23, 2000, 16:48]
Row erupts over software patent directive
News High among these, said EuroLinux, are key differences between the draft document and the final one. Many issues have been discovered in the EC's draft directive, but the most worrying is the involvement of the BSA, according to the EuroLinux...
[February 21, 2002, 16:50]
Update: Heavyweights pound BT's patent claim
News The EuroLinux consortium was also quick to damn BT's plans, arguing that software patenting stifles creativity and competition and is especially harmful to new companies and independent programmers. The time has come to take control of the European...
[June 22, 2000, 11:15]
European Free Software Foundation created
News According to EuroLinux, an organisation that promotes Linux and Free Software in Europe, this development shows the importance of having international representation. It is really important that Europe gets some structure for its Free Software...
[November 28, 2000, 8:40]
AltaVista in search patent threat
News This is another fine example of what will happen if we allow software patents in Europe," says Stefane Fermigier, a representative of EuroLinux, which is campaigning against changing European patent law.
[January 25, 2001, 12:50]
European software patents 'a done deal'
News As part of the EU consultation, open-source lobbying group EuroLinux organised a petition against the introduction of software patents, which gained several thousand signiatures. The European Commission and European Parliament are determined to...
[June 26, 2003, 15:28]
2000 Roundup: Everybody loves Linux
News The EuroLinux Alliance voiced similar objections. The year kicked of with Intel putting faith in Linux instead of Microsoft with its new breed of Web appliances. The Trillian project -- to get Linux ready for Intel's high-end Itanium processors...
[January 2, 2001, 6:09]
Stallman fights European software patents
News The EuroLinux Alliance has also campaigned against the introduction of patents and submitted a petition of over 50,000 signatures opposing the change in October. Free software guru Richard Stallman will unveil the Patent Horrors Gallery in Germany...
[November 21, 2000, 14:24]
Software patents vote delayed
News Miquel Mayol i Raynal, a Catalan MEP, said he felt that the draft legislation ignores the needs of small businesses, and should have taken into account an anti-software patenting petition organised by lobbying group EuroLinux, which garnered more...
[June 30, 2003, 12:30]
Sun has betrayed us all
Talkback Hartmut Pilch, FFII & Eurolinux Alliance tel. "Sun Corporate Communications" called the ZDNet article irresponsible on several accounts: Sun can only characterize as irresponsible ZDUK's leader about our patent settlement with Kodak.
[October 12, 2004, 15:04]
Scientists protest EU software patents
News Those rallying against software patents, including the petitioning scientists and the 143,000 people who have so far signed a similar petition organised by the EuroLinux Alliance, fear that an increasing number of software-related patents will...
[April 28, 2003, 12:10]
Protests derail software patents vote
News A demonstration in Brussels last week attracted more than 400 participants, organised by the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII) and Eurolinux, among other groups, which also persuaded several hundred Web sites to black out...
[September 1, 2003, 15:55]
Software patent protest to block Web sites
News The FFII and software-oriented groups such as Eurolinux are also organising a rally to be held beside the European Parliament in Brussels on Wednesday, running from noon to 2 p.m. More than 600 Web sites are to take part in an online protest...
[August 26, 2003, 14:00]
Sun's patent settlement sparks controversy
News Hartmut Pilch, of FFII & Eurolinux Alliance, leapt to our defence in a long, careful statement: "Sun Corporate Communications" called the ZDNet article irresponsible on several accounts. Whatever the rights and wrongs of Sun's decision to settle...
[October 13, 2004, 16:40]
