Georg C. F. Greveis a self-taught software developer, academically trained physicist and author. He has been working on technology politics since 2001 when he founded the Free Software Foundation Europe... (wikipedia)
We're fundamentally opposed to DRM. We think it's a dead end for society.
Software patents are clearly a menace to society and innovation. We like this to be more explicit.
It appears that the journalist at Reuters was somewhat confused in terms of separating speculation and fact, so he ended up publishing speculation as fact and largely ignoring the facts.
We want to make sure that Microsoft is forced to publish the communication specifications, and in a way that competition is possible, including for free software venders.
We have four full-time people who investigate these. That's not enough.
There could be something that addresses this if we can find a sensible way to put it.
These are things that are being tossed around, but whether, how and in what form it will take place, we don't know.
invite some people into so-called 'advisory committees' which will first help to determine the milestones and rules for global participation. These guidelines are then supposed to come out in November/December 2005.