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Microsoft Voted 'Best Campaigner Against OOXML'
News Microsoft has been awarded a prize by the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure for the debacle surrounding its Office Open XML specification. The Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII), an organisation set up to aid the...
[October 2, 2007, 13:00]
Software Patents Campaigners Honoured
News Florian Mueller of NoSoftwarePatents.com and Rufus Pollock of the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII) received their awards in front of an audience of IT professionals from across the industry at the London Hilton on Park Lane.
[September 28, 2005, 13:05]
Liberal Democrats Accused Of Double Standards Over Patents
Talkback what an irresponsible, insensitive and unfortuante choice for an analagy used by Hartmut Pilch, the president of Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII). To state "that Liberal Democrats have behaved in a "schizophrenic" manner over...
[June 26, 2005, 21:31]
UK Firms Vent Anger At Software Patents
News The 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 that software patents threaten innovation and would harm the UK economy.
[October 22, 2004, 15:25]
Software Patent Directive Rejected
News The Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII) described this decision as a "great victory for those who have campaigned to ensure that European innovation and competitiveness is protected from monopolisation of software...
[July 6, 2005, 12:25]
EC: Software Patents Will Still Be Granted
News The directive was criticised by various trade organisations and open source groups, including UEAPME, a European trade association representing more than 11 million companies; CEA-PME, a trade association that represents more than 500,000...
[July 21, 2005, 16:30]
Software Patent Battle Set To Flare Up Again
News However, EICTA's position is firmly challenged by some of those who oppose the introduction of software patents, such as The Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure. EICTA, the European Information and Communication Technology Association...
[October 29, 2004, 10:34]
Patent Office Considers Wiki Peer Review
News That the pilot peer review scheme is 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 software patents.
[December 13, 2006, 16:28]
Open Source Fans To Emulate .Net
News With DotGNU and Mono, you will be able to use C# if you wish, without surrendering your freedom to study, share, change and generally control all the software that you use," Free Software Foundation president Richard Stallman said in a statement...
[July 10, 2001, 12:06]
Hackers Face Life Sentence
News The Free Congress Foundation, which opposes CSEA, criticised Monday evening's vote. A committee report accompanying the legislation predicts: "A terrorist or criminal cyber attack could further harm our economy and critical infrastructure.
[July 16, 2002, 12:48]
Patent Directive 'back On EU Agenda'
News A minister from Luxembourg and a representative from the European Commission's Industrial Property Unit have said that the CIID -- which opponents say will allow the widespread patenting of software in Europe -- will be adopted at an EU Council...
[January 21, 2005, 11:50]
European Parliament Blocks Patent Liberalisation
News The Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII) was also concerned about its implications. The proposal, which was included in a resolution concerning innovation policy, called for the "mutual recognition of patent laws in Member States".
[March 16, 2006, 9:35]
Liberal Democrats Accused Of Double Standards Over Patents
News Hartmut Pilch, the president of Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII), told ZDNet UK on Thursday that the Liberal Democrats have behaved in a "schizophrenic" manner over the patent directive.
[June 23, 2005, 16:00]
EU Taskforce 'not Representing' Small Businesses
News The Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII), an association which campaigns to promote open standards in software development, believes that big business will use the Task-Force to lobby for changes that will help them but hamper...
[July 5, 2006, 15:00]
Public Meeting On Patents Excludes Anti-patent Campaigners
News But, James Heald of the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII), said it has found out that about one third of people who have written to their MP's to express their views against patents have not been invited.
[December 7, 2004, 15:55]
Pro-patent Lobby In Sticky Situation Over Ice-cream Offer
News We knew the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII) were having a meeting and we wanted to make sure the MEPs heard our side of the story as well," said Gentry. The email, which was signed by Harbour's assistant, Tori Lapworth...
[June 6, 2005, 16:50]
EU Anti-piracy Directive Heads For Final Vote
News The Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure, a Europe-wide digital rights group, criticised the directive's proposal to make harsh measures available for all alleged intellectual property infringements, potentially including individual...
[February 26, 2004, 11:05]
'Deceptive' Patent Lobbying Sparks Calls For Transparency
News Hartmut Pilch, the president of Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII) - which opposed the directive - said he was unhappy with some of the media reporting around the software patent directive.
[July 11, 2005, 14:15]
Court Rejects Patent For Form-filling Program
News It would have been a disaster if Macrossan was said to be patentable, because every business method under the sun would have been patentable," said Rufus Pollock, director of the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII), a not-for...
[October 27, 2006, 13:15]
UK Patent Office Under Fire Over Software Report
News Rufus Pollock, the UK spokesman for the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII), says the FFII has a similar view. Alex Hudson, vice-chair of Association for Free Software, which promotes free and open-source software, told ZDNet UK...
[November 8, 2004, 17:18]
