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Ciarán O'Riordan on software patents
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Ciarán O'Riordan was Executive Director of End Software Patents 2009-2016 (disclosure: and main author of this wiki page).
O'Riordan has been giving presentations about, and campaigning against, software patents since early 2003,[1][2] and was a founder of Irish Free Software Organisation in late 2003.
From April 2005[3] to December 2008[4] he worked as Brussels Representative for FSFE,[5] working on campaigns against software patents, among other topics.
O'Riordan served as Executive Director of End Software Patents from February 2009 until 2016.
Related pages on ESP Wiki
- Ben Sturmfels on software patents - also of ESP
External links
- Software patents page from personal website
- 2009: End Software Patents: Phase II, presentation transcript, Boston
- 2009: Abandoning software patents?, Patently-O, (see also reply by Martin Goetz)
- 2007: Do software patents exist in the EU?
- 2006: The future of the patents battle, and the July 12th hearing
- 2006: Software Patents and the Free Software Movement, presentation partial transcript, London
- 2005: Preventing Software Patents: How & Why, presentation transcript, Dublin
- 2003: Email to W3C for their patent policy consultation
References
- ↑ AFFS AGM closing presentation: Software patents in Europe, May 17th 2003
- ↑ http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-patentpolicy-comment/2003Mar/0014.html
- ↑ http://mailman.fsfeurope.org/pipermail/press-release/2005q2/000103.html
- ↑ http://blogs.fsfe.org/ciaran/?p=172
- ↑ http://mail.fsfeurope.org/pipermail/press-release/2005q3/000110.html