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They did extensive testing and <a
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href="/news/2012/news-20120920-01.html">published the results</a>.</p>
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<p>Dressed with hoodies with the slogan "Independent through free software" our
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<p>Dressed with hoodies with the slogan "Independent through Free Software" our
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<a href="http://wiki.fsfe.org/groups/Vienna">Vienna Fellowship group</a> had an
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information booth giving away <a
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during the Free Your Android workshop</a> that Torsten Grote organised during
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SFD in Berlin. And meanwhile in Cologne there was a <a
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during the Free Your Android workshop</a>, that Torsten Grote organised during
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SFD in Berlin. And, in Cologne, there was a <a
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software freedom</a>.</p>
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href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/2012/09/17/ep-committee-postpones-discussion-of-unitary-patent/">the
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European Parliament has postponed the debate about the Unitary Patent</a> ,
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which gives us more time to work on pointing out the <a
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href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/2012/09/04/software-patents-in-europe-game-on/">several
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href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/2012/09/04/software-patents-in-europe-game-on/">
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serious problems and hazards of the proposal</a> to the Legal Affairs
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Commitee.</p>
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<p>Our president, Karsten Gerloff, wrote a series of articles about software
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patents, pointing at the current situation <a
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patents pointing at the current situation <a
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href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/2012/09/05/how-the-european-patent-system-works/">at
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the European Union level</a>.Also, he <a
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the European Union level</a> and he <a
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href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/2012/09/06/notes-from-boldrinlevine-2012-the-case-against-patents/">has
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published his notes</a> about "The Case Against Patents", a recent draft paper
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by economists Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine, and he concludes that
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by economists Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine. He concludes that
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we cannot "leave it to the EPO" and that "patent policy
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needs to be integrated into a larger innovation policy strategy"within the EU.</p>
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<p>FSFE's new intern Léopold Baillard explains this in detail in <a
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href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/leobaillard/2012/09/26/french-prime-minister-recommands-free-software-in-public-administrations/">his
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first blog post</a>, <a
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first blog post</a>; <a
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href="https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/news/french-guideline-favours-use-free-and-open-source">EC's
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joinup wrote about it</a>, and the French Free Software organisation APRIL
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joinup wrote about it</a>; and the French Free Software organisation APRIL
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also has <a
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href="http://www.april.org/en/ayrault-circular-progress-use-free-software-french-administration-pending-legislative-part">good
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information on the case</a>.</p>
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battle about who will control the computers we will use tomorrow</a>, and
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why the general-purpose computer is worth fighting for.</li>
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<li>There is information, that the City of Freiburg wants to switch to a
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proprietary office suite. FSFE together with OSB Alliance and BIKT wrote <a
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<li>There is information that the City of Freiburg wants to switch to a
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proprietary office suite. FSFE, together with OSB Alliance and BIKT, wrote <a
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href="/news/2012/news-20120918-01.html">an open letter about it</a> asking
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several questions to the City's officials (German). EC's joinup <a
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href="http://joinup.ec.europa.eu/news/advocacy-groups-decry-freiburgs-stealth-return-proprietary-office">reported
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<li>Thanks to Kåre Thor Olsen the article <a
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Software"</a> is now translated also into Danish. It is now available in 12
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languages, thanks to all volunteers in our <a
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languages, thanks to all the volunteers in our <a
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href="/contribute/translators/translators.html">our translators
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team</a>.</li>
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