End Software Patents Australia

Recently I received an email Ciarán O’Riordan about his work on FSF’s End Software Patents campaign. I think its wonderful that we have people working on that and helping us in Australia. For people who care about this issue please make contact with Ciarán O’Riordan and check out the wiki. Thanks for allowing me to publish the email below.

Hi,

I found your email address from groups.fsf.org/wiki/User:Chrismo (and a bit
of searching 🙂

I’m working on FSF’s End Software Patents campaign and am building a wiki for anti-software-patent campaigns:
http://en.swpat.org

Gathering local info is pretty hard though. This week I’m focussing on Australia, so if you know of any info/websites/stories about what’s happening or what’s happened there, it’d be great if you could add it here:
http://en.swpat.org/wiki/Australia

I’ve found two interesting organisations digital.org.au and EFA, but if you could point me towards other active (or potentially active) groups that care about digital freedom or SMEs or software market competition, that would be very useful so I could get in contact with them.

Thanks.
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Ciarán O’Riordan, +32 487 64 17 54, http://ciaran.compsoc.com/

Software patents wiki: http://en.swpat.org/
End Software Patents: http://www.EndSoftwarePatents.org/

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