Rene Paul Mages (alias ramix) was a board member of FFII from 2007 to 2014 : The Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure a non-profit organisation dedicated to establishing a free market in information technology, by the removal of barriers to competition. The FFII was largely responsible for the rejection of the EU software patent directive in July 2005, working closely with the European Parliament and many partners from industry and civil society. CNET awarded the FFII the Outstanding contribution to software development award for this work, which was the result of years of research, policy, and action. Today we continue to defend your right to a free and competitive software market by working towards sane patent systems and open standards.
Main Wikipedia interests are interoperability , open standards and the fight against software patents as you can can see on my personal wiki
