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Press-release of the Free Software Foundation Europe For immediate release
"GNU/LINUX-Distributor MandrakeSoft donates 2500 Euro to the Free Software Foundation Europe"
(Hamburg/Paris) Upon a visit of Richard M. Stallman, founding father of the GNU Project and Free Software Foundation, in their new offices, GNU/Linux distributor MandrakeSoft announced a donation of 2500 Euro to the Free Software Foundation Europe, the acknowledged sister organization of the Free Software Foundation in the United States.
"We thank MandrakeSoft for this donation as it will allow us to cover the legal expenses coming up in January.", says Georg C. F. Greve on behalf of the FSF Europe. "We hope to establish a good and cooperative relationship for future activities on behalf of Free Software and GNU/Linux."
The Free Software Foundation Europe is currently in creation and it is planned to take up work in Germany, France, Sweden and Italy within the first quarter of 2001. Other countries like England, Belgium, Holland and Spain are to follow shortly thereafter.
About the FSF Europe:
Among the tasks of the Free Software Foundation Europe will be the coordination of Free Software initiatives throughout Europe, providing infrastructure for Free Software projects and especially the GNU Project and providing a competence-center for politicians and the press.
At the moment a group consisting of the original four Bernhard Reiter, Peter Gerwinski and Werner Koch as well as Georg C. F. Greve, all well-known authorities on the Free Software field, has been joined by Frederic Couchet (well known for his work with April in France), Jonas Öberg (a Free Software evangelist from Sweden) and Alessandro Rubini (very active in the Italian Free Software community) in the core planning team. Together with a lot of dedicated volunteers who have joined this group on the mailing lists we will see to it that the spirit of Free Software will be strengthened and upheld in Europe.
Further information about the FSF Europe can be found at http://www.fsfeurope.org
Contact:
Europe and Germany: Georg C. F. Greve greve@gnu.org Tel: +49-40-23809080 Fax: +49-40-23809081 France: Frederic Couchet fcouchet@april.org Tel: +33 6 60 68 89 31 Italy: Alessandro Rubini rubini@gnu.org Tel: +39-0382-529.554 (o .424) Fax: +39-0382-529.424 Sweden: Jonas Öberg jonas@gnu.org Tel: +46-21-144831