IP: European working group on libre software

[Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>]

The working group on libre software was created at the initiative of the 
Information Society Directorate General, with the purpose to analyze the 
free software phenomenon, create a set of recommendations for the Community 
and create a paper to be presented to the Commission. The group featured 
both people from the Commission and representative members from the EU 
countries.
After several meeting, the group finalized a paper, edited by Carlo Daffara 
and Jesús M. González-Barahona and presented at the IST'99 conference in 
Helsinki, during the special session track on libre software. The 1.0 
version (work-in-progress) of the paper is available for download at the 
following location in PDF format: paper.pdf, LaTeX format paper-1.0.tex, 
(bibliography file:paper.bib) and in html: paper
A mailing list has been prepared for the further discussion of the issue 
connected with open source, subscription is available by writing at the 
address freesw-request@conecta.it with the subject "subscribe".

http://eu.conecta.it/


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A Happy Holiday and a safe New Year

from Dave and GG Farber

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