[TOS] Teaching the concept of Free Software

[Jan Wildeboer]

As one of those deep into the european fight against SWPAT 4-5 years ago, I 
can assure you that FFII was the most influential player at that time.

http://webshop.ffii.org still is a good starting point. Even after all these 
years.

Jan
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To: Karsten Wade <kwade at redhat.com>
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Sent: Mon Dec 07 09:23:33 2009
Subject: Re: [TOS] Teaching the concept of Free Software

Karsten Wade wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 05:37:46PM -0500, Luis Ibanez wrote:
> > I was pointing out to the students that the only two organizations that
> > will take at heart the difficult challenge of eliminating "Software 
> > Patents"
> > are: the FSF and the EFF
>
> To widen that list a bit, I would definitely include the many other
> groups working against software patents, from Red Hat to the SFLC and
> the FFII.  I'm confident those organizations take the challenge to
> heart, too. ;-)

Thank you!  A lot of tech-coop members are active against software
patents (in our case, we try to help FFII as well as directly
lobbying our representatives) and I was a bit upset to learn that
only the FSF and the EFF got any recognition.  This campaign is
bigger than any few organisations!

Regards,
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