The Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure or FFII is not a lobbying structure as such but a non-profit organisation based in Munich, Germany, 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 FFII continue to defend a noble cause : a free and competitive software market by working towards sane patent systems and open standards. Currently the FFII fights against sof
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| - The Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure or FFII is not a lobbying structure as such but a non-profit organisation based in Munich, Germany, 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 FFII continue to defend a noble cause : a free and competitive software market by working towards sane patent systems and open standards. Currently the FFII fights against sof
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| - The Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure or FFII is not a lobbying structure as such but a non-profit organisation based in Munich, Germany, 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 FFII continue to defend a noble cause : a free and competitive software market by working towards sane patent systems and open standards. Currently the FFII fights against software patents lobbies, not only in Europe but also in other parts of the world.
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