Good day,
The announcement of FSFE coincided conveniently with the instigation on my part to get the Dutch industry involved with the ongoing patent lobby. I am the coordinator of the development efforts of Vuurwerk Internet, currently one of the largest hosting ISPs in the Benelux. Our company is dedicated to delivering any produced software under the GPL flag, because we believe that the industry, especially in Europe, cannot afford to let their business be sidetracked by the waste of resources that goes into proprietary software development.
We believe in free software as an answer to a lot of the growth problems of the ICT industry on both a national and a European scale and feel it is our moral obligation to make that point both politically and in actions. Our currently distributed free software can be found on http://www.tarball.net/ for those interested.
I perceive FSFE to be a solid platform for us and likeminded people to get organized and increase our political leverage and we would like to be closely involved in its organization. If necessary, we can provide the project with free bandwidth and webspace, of course, aswell as contribute in other ways.
Regards,
Pim van Riezen
Head of Development Vuurwerk Internet