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The Free Software Foundation Europe e.V. (FSFE) is an organization that supports free software and all aspects of the free software movement in Europe, with registered chapters in several European countries. [2] It is a registered voluntary association (German: eingetragener Verein) incorporated under German law. FSFE was founded in 2001.
Carlo Piana is a lawyer by training and a free software advocate. A qualified attorney in Italy, Piana has been practicing IT law since 1995, focusing his practice on software, technology, standardization, data protection and digital liberties in general, [1] and served as external general counsel to the Free Software Foundation Europe ("FSFE").
Availability: Open Standards are available for all to read and implement. Maximize End-User Choice: Open Standards create a fair, competitive market for implementations of the standard. They do not lock the customer into a particular vendor or group. No Royalty: Open Standards are free for all to implement, with no royalty or fee.
The Free Standards Group was an industry non-profit consortium chartered to primarily specify and drive the adoption of open source standards, founded on May 8, 2000. [1]All standards developed by the Free Standards Group (FSG) were released under open terms (the GNU Free Documentation License with no cover texts or invariant sections) and test suites, sample implementations and other software ...
The concept of Free/Libre standards emerged in the software industry as a reaction against closed de facto "standards" which served to reinforce monopolies. Users of a free standard have the same four freedoms associated with free software, and the freedom to participate in its development process. The standardisation process typically requires ...
FSFE and is presenting the winner of the yearly Nordic Free Software Award, given to the person/project that have made a contribution to the advancement of Free Software in the Nordic countries. The jury consists of member from FSFE and Föreningen fri kultur och programvara [13] (Free Culture and Software) and members from the free software ...
Open standards covered by patents (22 P) OpenPGP (22 P) T. TRON project (9 P) X. XMPP (1 C, 7 P) Pages in category "Open standards" The following 100 pages are in ...
The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS; / oʊ ˈ eɪ. s ɪ s /) is a nonprofit consortium that works on the development, convergence, and adoption of projects - both open standards and open source - for computer security, blockchain, Internet of things (IoT), emergency management, cloud computing, legal data exchange, energy, content technologies, and ...