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'''Ciarán O'Riordan''' is Executive Director of [[End Software Patents]] (disclosure: and main 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, 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. | + | 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><ref>http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-patentpolicy-comment/2003Mar/0014.html</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]],<ref>http://mail.fsfeurope.org/pipermail/press-release/2005q3/000110.html</ref> working on campaigns against software patents, among other topics. | 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. | ||
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Revision as of 06:57, 24 May 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][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.
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
- 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
