Irish Free Software Organization goes live

>From : http://ifso.info/news.html#n4 :

hello, world.

January 5th 2004, Irish Free Software Organisation (IFSO) is
launched. Since June 2003, members of the fsfe-ie mailing list have been
collaborating on issues such as software patents, and the European
Copyright Directive.

With Ireland holding the presidency of the EU for the next six months,
political lobbying in Ireland will be of increased importance. The fate
of the software patentability directive is still undecided, and we now
also have the Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive to deal
with. In the coming months, members of IFSO also plan to work on
spreading education and adoption of Free Software in Ireland. Once we
have a proven track record, we hope to become an associate organisation
of FSF Europe.

By no coincidence, today is also the 20th anniversary of the beginning
of the GNU project.

Call me biased, but I think this is interesting.


Ciaran O'Riordan
Chairman, Irish Free Software Organisation :-)