Florian Mueller
Florian Mueller
Florian Mülleris a German lobbyist. He consults for Microsoft and Oracle and writes the FOSSPatents blog about patent and copyright issues, particularly those centering on Google. From 1985 to 1998, he was a computer magazine writer and consultant for companies, helping with collaborations between software companies. In 2004 he founded the NoSoftwarePatents campaign and in 2007 he provided some consultancy in relation to football policy...
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Also, there are economic studies which show that Europe has a trade deficit in software versus the U.S. in the tens of billions of dollars per year, so there is obviously some hope over here to become a little more independent from a few large and mostly American vendors.