Paul Boddie is a developer in the bioinformatics domain. In this
interview, he explains his conception of Free Software, which has a
lot to do with sustainable computing and with the ability to
use, maintain and develop solutions indefinitely.
Read about ground-breaking decision of the Court of Justice of EU, AG's opinion in awaited European interoperability ruling, two software patent cases and much more.
This was an exciting year for Free Software, and for FSFE. We fought
against software patents and the way they restrict Free Software and
competition. We helped to defend the GPL against those who would take
away our freedom to study and modify the software on our computers,
and worked on many other important issues.
City officials in Helsinki, Finland, are overwhelmingly
satisfied after trying
out the Free Software office suite OpenOffice.org on their laptops. 75% of 600
officials have been using OpenOffice.org exclusively since February, as part of
a pilot project where the city installed the program on 22,500 workstations.
Competition authorities in the US and Europe are
currently investigating the sale of 6000 patents from Nortel,
a bankrupt telecommunications equipment manufacturer, to a
consortium of Apple, Microsoft and four other companies.
