Hartmut Pilch
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Hartmut Pilch (born July 7 1963 in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany) is the president and founder of the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure or FFII, and is a simultaneous conference interpreter, translator and software developer, who lives in Munich, Germany. He is a former employee of SuSE.
In 2000, he led a campaign which supposedly contributes to prevent the removal of the exclusion of computer programs as such from patenting in Art. 52(2) of the European Patent Convention. In 2003, he led again a campaign against the patentability of software in Europe. Along with a lot of supporters (60,000?), he lobbied and convinced the members of the European Parliament to amend a directive proposal on the Patentability of Computer-Implemented Inventions (initially written by the European Commission). He is also strongly opposed to the current practice of the European Patent Organisation regarding software patents.
He also founded the Eurolinux Alliance.
See also
External links
- Personal web page (http://www.ffii.org/~phm)
- Pages in the FFII Wiki (http://kwiki.ffii.org/HartmutPilchDe)
- FFII (http://www.ffii.org/)