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'''Ciarán O'Riordan''' is Executive Director of [[End Software Patents]] (disclosure: and author of this wiki page).
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'''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 May 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>
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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.
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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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Since February 2009, he is Executive Director of [[End Software Patents]].
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==Related pages on {{SITENAME}}==
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* [[Ben Sturmfels on software patents]] - also of ESP
  
 
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* 2009: [http://groups.fsf.org/wiki/Ciaran_O'Riordan_(LP09) End Software Patents: Phase II], presentation transcript, Boston
 
* 2009: [http://groups.fsf.org/wiki/Ciaran_O'Riordan_(LP09) End Software Patents: Phase II], presentation transcript, Boston
 
* 2007: [http://blogs.fsfe.org/ciaran/?p=115 Do software patents exist in the EU?]
 
* 2007: [http://blogs.fsfe.org/ciaran/?p=115 Do software patents exist in the EU?]
* 2006: [http://blogs.fsfe.org/ciaran/?p=49 The future of the patents battle, and the july 12th hearing]
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* 2006: [http://blogs.fsfe.org/ciaran/?p=49 The future of the patents battle, and the July 12th hearing]
 
* 2006: [http://ciaran.compsoc.com/2006-04-07-swpat-london.html Software Patents and the Free Software Movement], presentation partial transcript, London
 
* 2006: [http://ciaran.compsoc.com/2006-04-07-swpat-london.html Software Patents and the Free Software Movement], presentation partial transcript, London
 
* 2005: [http://www.ifso.ie/documents/ifso-2005-11-18.html Preventing Software Patents: How & Why], presentation transcript, Dublin
 
* 2005: [http://www.ifso.ie/documents/ifso-2005-11-18.html Preventing Software Patents: How & Why], presentation transcript, Dublin
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* 2003: [http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-patentpolicy-comment/2003Mar/0014.html Email to W3C for their patent policy consultation]
  
 
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Revision as of 08:10, 10 February 2012

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.

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