Discussion and decisions on software patents
03-December-2004
These actual and ongoing debate in the European Union is very crucial for the future development of OSS and the software economy at all. If you are not informed right now please visit www.nosoftwarepatents.com and you find a lot of important information in 15 languages to build up you own opinion. There are also possibilities to support the “NoSoftwarePatents”-movement and links to other sources.
Next Sigosee's meeting in Athens
15-December-2004
As we discussed in Barcelona the first day (Thursday) will be the partners meeting and second day (Friday) the public seminar.
I’m waiting your comments.
George Bekiaridis
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Linux in schools in Jordan
15-December-2004
A news item on IBM's work porting
the EduWave K-12 eLearning platform to Linux in Jordan. It's not clear what
the license is on EduWave, but at least it suggests there is considerable interest
in Linux.
Report on the impact of software patents on ICT in education
17-December-2004
Riina Vuorikari and Karl Sarnow of European Schoolnet have produced a paper
called "Software Patents - a potential hindrance of ICT in education".
You can download it here.