McCreevy seeks new patent laws

The European Commission will present new options to end a 20-year deadlock over patents, but plans for revamping a copyright tax are all but dead, internal market commissioner Charlie McCreevy said today.

Past attempts to create a single EU patent that would be valid in all the bloc's countries failed due to disagreements over the number of languages to be used.

ireland.com

Microsoft IPR "sharing"

It’s generally not a free license, but the intention is to give partners who do have the intention to build on these protocols a way to do so, without Microsoft giving away secrets to its competitors.

betanews

See you in Badajoz

I'll be attending the FLOSS world conference 2007 in Badajoz, Spain from 7.2.2007 - 9.2.2007. Durring this event I'll have also meeting from IDABC project. I would like to meet you all :)

FLOSS in Schools day

FLOSS in schools day will be part of international conference APLIMAT in Bratislava, Slovakia. Whole day will be focused on presentations of real FLOSS usage in various schools from Slovakia. Eleven teachers and university professors will bring and share the experience with different classes of open source daily use as a well build teaching platform and applications.

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floss schools (SK)

OOXML ISO fast track opposition update

France, APRIL (French Free Software Association) has sent a letter to AFNO (france
representant at ISO). french

Bernard Carayon (MP of government party in Frace) has asked a written
question to the Minister of Industry, pointing at the conflict of this
fasttrack adoption of OOXML with the recommandation of Open Document
Format in the General Referential on Interoperability (a government
initiative to "impose" open standard for public documents, it was backed
by CCIA in an open letter. french

Netherlands is against the fast track procedure. dutch

Belgium, the responsible advising committee is mostly against it but they need
unanimity and Intel and Microsoft are in favor; now the standardisation
office itself has to decide on it. dutch