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FFII Week blog – Day 6

Sunday, June 5, 2005

Saturday. Today I resent minutes of a Council working group to FFII lists along with some strange Rocard ‘compromise’ amendmets for articles 1 and 2 only. This proved to be a crusial piece of information for strategy planning of EP. LV did some strange moves there and HU, NL and DE were clearly violating orders [...]

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FFII Week blog – Day 5

Friday, June 3, 2005

Friday was a quiet day – everyone had a bit of hangover from yesterday (not me – I only tasted the wine and didn’t really drink it) and I woke up quite late.I spend the whole day at the FFII apartment trying to do as much good as possible. At the end of the day, [...]

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FFII Week blog – Day 4

Thursday, June 2, 2005

As allways in such events I started to forget to write blog items after three days. It is Saturday evening now and I am trying to reconstrukt events from last 3 days. In the morning of thursday two EP groups held public meeting dedicated to SWPat directive – EPP and Greens. The meetings were separate [...]

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FFII Week blog – Day 3

Wednesday, June 1, 2005

Today I did get the breakfast – yay! I did hovewer get late to the first panel and only got the end of it. I got a few nice pictures and heard a great reaction from the chair – one person tried to make a statement that the pure software “like the Amazon one-click” is [...]

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FFII Week blog – Day 2

Tuesday, May 31, 2005

Today I missed the breakfast and thus had no chance of doing much for the rest of the day I was contacted by Elina – assistant of Valdis Dombrovskis (a MEP from Latvia) to schedule a meeting. We agreed on a time and I spend rest of the day familiarising with the plan for the [...]

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FFII week blog – Day 1

Monday, May 30, 2005

This post and several next posts are summaries of the week that I spent in Brussels helping FFII to fight against software patents. I wrote the blog items in my new, shiny Palm Tungsten and then HotSynced and copy-pasted to the blog. Morning: it is easier for me to not sleep trough the night then [...]

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Testimonies

Saturday, May 28, 2005

I finally can tell the word on what I’ve been working last serveral weeks.No, it is not Nokia 770. I wish, that’s one hell of a beautifully beast. I’ve been working on http://www.economic-majority.com/testimony/. If you are a company based in Europe and would suffer from software patents, contact us – we need your help to [...]

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Antipatent work

Tuesday, May 10, 2005

Today I started to work more actively for the FFII to counter the EU software patents directive. I am bringing SMEs in for the .economic-majority.com site and to Brussels to meet with MEPs. It seams that there are many SMEs interested in that kind of action in Latvia. Also fixed two bugs and added one [...]

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Software patents

Thursday, April 21, 2005

I have been involved in the discussions about software patents in Europe since the beginning. Today I feel that I need to summarize my idea about them. The IT industry is about the author, about author controlling, selling (or sharing) his work. To insure that the author is in control, the copyright is used. Software [...]

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