News
- Unitary Patent challenged at the Belgian Constitutional Court: ESOMA and iMatix has filed an appeal against the Unitary Patent ratification by Belgium at the Constitutional Court. Equality of languages, seperation of powers, and the irresponsability of the EPO in front of courts are vilolating the Belgian Constitution. A central patent court will become the single point of failure to validate software patents Europe-wide. Small Software companies cannot afford to go to court or pay damages. (02 Apr 2015 08:27)
- Esoma position paper on EECMA proposal: Comments on the Commission proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and the Council establishing the European Electronic Communications Market Authority. Com(2007) 699 PDF(EN) – 2007/0249/COD, responsible ITRE (Del Castillo Vera Pilar) (29 Apr 2008 08:53)
- Press Release OFE / ESOMA / FSFE : New petition calls for open standards in the European Parliament: Brussels, 6 March 2008 - The European Parliament still imposes that same specific software choice on both the European Union's citizens and its own MEPs. OFE, Esoma, and FSFE today launched a petition to call on the EP to use open standards so that all citizens can participate in the democratic process. (07 Mar 2008 09:40)
- Esoma replies to Creative Content Online consultation: Following European Commission communication on Creative Content Online in the Single Market, Esoma publishes its position on the issue. (03 Mar 2008 14:49)
- Esoma and OpenForum Europe together with Digistan: The Digital Standard Organization is born. See www.digistan.org. (28 Jan 2008 15:04)
- Esoma in Africa and Latin America: During the campaign against Office Open XML, Esoma helped African and Latin American teams in their work to build a proper standard policy. (05 Oct 2007 11:49)
- Esoma asbl founded by FFII expert group: On 25 January, FFII president Hintjens together with Henrion, Barrionuevo García, Vuorio, and Combes sign the Esoma statutes of association and create Esoma asbl. (16 Feb 2007 16:22)
- ESOMA workgroup started: FFII starts the ESOMA workgroup to organise and implement the vision of a new industry association aimed specifically at the independent IT market. (15 Dec 2006 11:29)
Subscribe
You can subscribe to the ESOMA news feed using any RSS reader. Just click on the RSS icon.
Submit news
If you're a registered editor, you can create a new news item.