sweden July 2006

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[Sweden] Information request
by Burak Ozgen 31 Jul '06

31 Jul '06

Dear Sir/Madam, I do my Ph.D research on 'cross-border collective management of copyright' at the Ghent University, Belgium. For my research I need English translations of European countries' Copyright Acts and laws relating to Copyright Administration. Could you please advise me on that for Sweden (and if it is possible for other Nordic countries too). Kind regards Burak Ozgen

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[Sweden] New Intern Looking for Accommodation
by Dimitar Genchev 23 Jul '06

23 Jul '06

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I am going to be a new intern at FSFE in Sweden, starting September 1 and Jonas Oberg pointed me at you for advice on finding accommodation in Goteborg. So if you can help me with some information, I would be grateful. Best regards, Dimitar Genchev -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQIVAwUBRL4ChsopRcbNl6LFAQJEsA/8D3kscrTEuHD7t1COAfX27oHrFoLswLTu yc+RUUb5MYIHQ/L8YeN1Q+ffo3GnaonPn9og6IiUqAM/mYnQ6yMt1WuZWA3qXfCw VATw0t8Z4YuT2m7LLcC0ifk5uqn3h1R9JeUY+BXMKhIajyiHdrSkBFHf+kbZayog /Ayz18vxID85TWYFOiDgpU3YtkW4TKhWxE7881vWasRxm9KORWr3AbysjyZbAb1s kGwBjVGS3FvHG9+DHpKISDmOfV4OVrpweFoFs6KNk5qRh+ZUJqvQRft1I97ZmpHX x77f9rOV3L83GmDsyxVrzTruhpU3mHKd4S1R/PCQVBiYERIa4qH0f4urxfOvuhGF d4loqWwyILakNhZGzkylx8fEDXOdOr0z2Jjiq67ORCrAm1pyjftA7YbmVxVjVjTa 7DucwIERFKZNUeZGLXtO/EUhlC1Lnzvfb1g8f7yVv6ATxj/MvhEXXm/9ZKFpF3SF 2q7V2UstohZy1Od7s+e0T1+DCwEtKuLrAZN5gWR/76XYKrIrT15xjEypMSPcgCGG QPiTldGQJ3cLm/rFdgdSdS9qrg0nLa+ID5QuMU5mK4+ZA8T4kgnBM3XsHuh4egtq 1X+oBf817gAzoApH1PqMP+KMSFjQQrvVgfs7GHMtpky4WOUAjfYX0ujmnJ8ShEQm 0GGjYs5Fs2g= =C3zT -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Sweden] [FSFE PR][SV] Commission to Microsoft: Preventing interoperability has a price
by FSF Europe Press 12 Jul '06

12 Jul '06

Commission to Microsoft: Preventing interoperability has a price FSFE welcomes the decision by the European Commission. "Microsoft is still as far from allowing competition as it was on the day of the original Commission ruling in 2004. All proposals made by Microsoft were deliberately exclusive of Samba, the major remaining competitor. In that light, the fines do not seem to come early, and they do not seem high," comments Carlo Piana, Milano based lawyer of the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) regarding the decision of the European Commission to fine Microsoft 1.5 million Euro per day retroactively from 16. December 2005, totalling 280.5 million Euro. Should Microsoft not come into compliance until the end of July 2006, the daily fines could be doubled. These fines are a reaction to Microsofts continued lack of compliance with the European Commission decision to make interoperability information available to competitors as a necessary precondition to allow fair competition. FSFE has supported the European Commission >From the start of the suit in 2001. Having made similar statements during the hearing, Microsoft commented to the press last week [1] that 300 engineers are currently working "day and night" to fulfill the request of the public authorities. "If we are to believe Microsofts numbers, it appears that 120.000 person days are not enough to document its own software. This is a task that good software developers do during the development of software, and a hallmark of bad engineering," comments Georg Greve, president of the FSFE. "For users, this should be a shock: Microsoft apparently does not know the software that controls 95% of all desktop computers on this planet. Imagine General Motors releasing a press statement to the extent that even though they had 300 of their best engineers work on this for two years, they cannot provide specifications for the cars they built." Many companies run a mixed network of Windows, GNU/Linux, Unix and other operating systems (OS). The Windows products understand each other, and all the other operating systems can talk to each other. It is the connection between the two worlds that was deliberatly obfuscated a few years ago by Microsoft, and that the Samba project is working on. During the main hearing at the European Court of Justice toward the end of April, the president and founder of Samba Dr. Andrew Tridgell presented the work of the Samba Team work. Among other things, he demonstrated a box for roughly 100 EUR. If Microsoft did not hide its interoperability information, that box would already be capable of administrating hundreds of users. A small 100 EUR box could do the same task that is currently done by an entire PC for 1.000,- EUR. "Dr. Tridgell demonstrated easily what kind of innovation is locked out of the market by Microsofts refusal to interoperate with other vendors. In this case, the price of that refusal are domain controllers that are ten times more expensive than necessary, and the price is paid by everyone: private businesses, public authorities and society as a whole," Georg Greve summarises. He concludes: "When will society refuse to legitimise such business practices by buying from companies that exhibit such behaviour?" [1] http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2006/07/04/216779/Microsoft+working+… About the Free Software Foundation Europe: The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) is a charitable non-governmental organisation dedicated to all aspects of Free Software in Europe. Access to software determines who may participate in a digital society. Therefore the Freedoms to use, copy, modify and redistribute software - as described in the Free Software definition- allow equal participation in the information age. Creating awareness for these issues, securing Free Software politically and legally, and giving people Freedom by supporting development of Free Software are central issues of the FSFE. The FSFE was founded in 2001 as the European sister organisation of the Free Software Foundation in the United States. Further information: http://fsfeurope.org _______________________________________________ Press-release-sv mailing list Press-release-sv(a)fsfeurope.org https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/press-release-sv

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