Recordings in Vienna

The Professionalization of Free Software

Shane M. Coughlan

„When I say the professionalization of free software what I mean is doing things the best way we can.“

Shane M. Coughlan is the Freedom Task Force coordinator of the Free Software Foundation Europe. In September 2008 he discussed the future and the professonalization of Free Software with the Viennese Fellows of the FSFE.

Keywords: English, European Union, Shane M. Coughlan, Vienna

Understanding Software Patents

Hartmut Pilch

“My message to the patent world is: Either get back to the doctrines of forces of nature or face the elimination of your system.”

Hartmut Pilch of the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII) gives insights into the history of patent law, the theoretical shortcomings of the concept of software patents and their consequences.

Keywords: English, European Commission, European Parliament, FFII, Hartmut Pilch, Immanuel Kant, Josef Kohler, Othmas Karas, Paraflows 06, Vienna, Werner von Siemens