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| − | '''Ciarán O'Riordan''' is Executive Director of [[End Software Patents]] (disclosure: and author of this wiki page). | + | '''Ciarán O'Riordan''' is Executive Director of [[End Software Patents]] (disclosure: and main author of this wiki page). |
| − | O'Riordan has been giving presentations about [[software patents]] since | + | O'Riordan has been giving presentations about, and campaigning against, [[software patents]] since early 2003,<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20040505165217/http://www.affs.org.uk/affsac-2003.html AFFS AGM closing presentation: ''Software patents in Europe'', May 17th 2003]</ref> and was a founder of [[Irish Free Software Organisation]] in late 2003. |
| − | From April 2005<ref>http://mailman.fsfeurope.org/pipermail/press-release/2005q2/000103.html</ref> to December 2008<ref>http://blogs.fsfe.org/ciaran/?p=172</ref> he worked as Brussels Representative for [[FSFE]] | + | From April 2005<ref>http://mailman.fsfeurope.org/pipermail/press-release/2005q2/000103.html</ref> to December 2008<ref>http://blogs.fsfe.org/ciaran/?p=172</ref> he worked as Brussels Representative for [[FSFE]],<ref>http://mail.fsfeurope.org/pipermail/press-release/2005q3/000110.html</ref> working on campaigns against software patents, among other topics. |
Since February 2009, he is Executive Director of [[End Software Patents]]. | Since February 2009, he is Executive Director of [[End Software Patents]]. | ||
Revision as of 11:52, 17 March 2010
Ciarán O'Riordan is Executive Director of End Software Patents (disclosure: and main author of this wiki page).
O'Riordan has been giving presentations about, and campaigning against, software patents since early 2003,[1] and was a founder of Irish Free Software Organisation in late 2003.
From April 2005[2] to December 2008[3] he worked as Brussels Representative for FSFE,[4] working on campaigns against software patents, among other topics.
Since February 2009, he is Executive Director of End Software Patents.
External links
- Software patents page from personal website
- 2009: End Software Patents: Phase II, presentation transcript, Boston
- 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
