This is my first posting in my own blog. Previously I posted a few comments to my Slashdot Journal, but other than that I’m a newbie WRT blogging. I also have a German-language blog (accessible via the German-language section of the Web site, which has its own URL).

The Web site will soon be fleshed out with a lot more content. In a few weeks I’m going to a announce in greater detail my forthcoming book No Lobbyists As Such - The War over Software Patents in the European Union. I decided to start the site and this blog on a preliminary basis because, within a matter of days, I’m going to publish a position paper here in reply to the European Commission’s questionnaire on patent …

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/26/award_nominations/

Florian Mueller, one of my acquaintances from MySQL has been nominated for his work against European Software Patents as European of the year. Pretty heady!

He mentions the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII) in a statement. At OSCON this year, I had the pleasure of meeting Hartmut Pilch, the president of the FFII. He seems like a good guy and he is single-minded about his convictions.

If you feel, as I do, that Florian would make a better European Of The Year than UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, vote for him here:

http://www.ev50.com/poll/