Croatia and Norway have signed up to the European Patent Convention taking the total number of European Patent Organisation member states to 34.

Public institutions - hares or snails?

Already, 203 public institutions have removed advertisements for proprietary PDF readers from their websites. Particularly outstanding were the responses from Croatia, Russia and Slovenia. In Croatia all except one reported institution deleted the advertisement…

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If Microsoft gets this OOXML format "approved", it will be by irregularities in the voting, it seems. Here's more on what happened in Germany and a report on what is being called a scandal in Norway. And another odd process in Croatia.

The Linux desktop market share is increasing. Will Microsoft feel threatened? Would they give away their software or operating system for free to limit the spread of free and open source software?

Very negative portrayal of Free software is tied to a lobby that's directly tied to Microsoft and also strives to criminalise Free software in the EU

Another migration to Free software and ODF in Denmark; ways in which Microsoft currently responds to the "ODF threat"

Political parties in the country embrace FOSS, but Microsoft carries on with EDGI, gifts, and dumping of software

Parabola GNU/Linux is a full featured general-purpose distribution that's committed to only including free software. Parabola strives to keep its packaging and management tools as simple as possible, so that users have plenty of flexibility to install and configure the system to their liking.

This essay is a summary of my presentation at the workshop Inlaws and Outlaws, held on August 19-20, 2010 in Split, Croatia. The workshop brought together advocates of piracy with participants in the free culture and free software movements.