__NOTOC__ EuroLinux is a campaigning organisation that promotes

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, and that are opposed to the

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's proposals to introduce laws on

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s. It is also known as EuroLinux Alliance. It is ''not'' an

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for Linux User Groups in Europe. It describes itself as: "The EuroLinux Alliance for a

Free Information Infrastructure The Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII) is 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 played a ke ...

is an open coalition of commercial companies and non-profit associations united to promote and protect a vigorous European Software Culture based on

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s, open competition and open source software such as Linux. Corporate members or sponsors of EuroLinux develop or sell software under free, semi-free and non-free licenses for

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s such as

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." Eurolinux organised the public EU campaign against software patents that was signed by more than 300,000 people. Members include FFII,

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, AFUL, AEL, and European Linux user group (LUG) umbrella associations.

External links

http://www.eurolinux.org
forwards her
https://ffii.org/

Old petition for a software patent-free Europe
(archive.org copy) * Note: some people might be looking for downloads from her
https://euro-linux.com/
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See also

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