Harlem Désir (EuroMP,
PSF, France)
Miquel Mayol I Raynal (EuroMP,
Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya, Greens / European Free Alliance, Hispania)
Luis Berenguer Fuster (EuroMP, PSE, Hispania)
Raina Mercedes Echerer (EuroMP, Greens / European Free Alliance, Austria)
Rik Hindriks (MP, Holland,
PvdA)
Jan v. Walsem (MP, Holland,
Democraten 66)
Grietje Bettin (MdB, Media Policy Speaker of the Green Party)
Félix Lavilla Martínez (Spanish Senator, Spokesperson for the socialist group in the Senate's Committee on the Information and Knowledge Society)
Arseni Gibert (Senador per Girona de l'
Entesa Catalana de Progrés)
Carles Bonet (Senador per Girona de l'ECP,
ECP)
Softcatalá (Catalan Software Association, contact: Jordi Mas)
Marc Rius (responsable de Societat de la Informació d'
http://www.ic-v.org/)
Marcel Batalla i Olivé (President de la Sectorial de la Societat de la Informació d'
Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya)
Monica Lochner-Fischer (member of Bavarian Parliament, SPD)
European Co-ordination Council of the Internet Society (ISOC-ECC), representing 22 European ISOC chapters (contact: Patrick Vande Walle)
VOV@SPD (Internet Association of the German Social Democratic Party) (contact: Axel Schudak, Arne Brand & Boris Piwinger)
temPS réels (Internet Branch of the French Socialist Party) (contact: Thierry Noisette)
Forbundet af IT-professionelle (PROSA.dk) (contact: Peter Ussing)
Asociación de Técnicos en Informática (ATI.es) (contact: Josep Molás: presidente de la junta directiva general)
Syndicat National Professionnel des Etudes, du Conseil, de l'Ingénierie, de l'Informatique et des Services (SPECIS, contact: GIRAUD Bernard, BGiraud@fontenay.sema.slb.com)
Comisiones Obreras (trade union with 900,000 members, Hispania, contact: Alberto González)
M.U.N.C.I. (Mouvement pour une Union Nationale des Consultants en Informatique) (contact: contact at munci org)
COMFIA (Hispania) (Paco González)
Asociación de Internautas (Hispania) (Victor Domingo)
Institut d'Investigació en Intel·ligència Artificial (IIIA) del Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) (contact: Francesc Esteva, director)
Faculty of Sciences of Ghent University (contact: Prof. dr. Luc Moens, dean)
ESR Pollmeier GmbH (contact: Stefan Pollmeier (Managing Director))
Opera Software (contact: Håkon Wium Lie (CTO))
Jetter AG (contact: Martin Jetter (CEO))
Magix AGcontact: Oliver Lorenz (Head of Legal Department)
Phaidros AG (contact: Matthias Schlegel (CEO))
Myriad Software (contact: Guillion Didier, manager)
David Axmark & Michael Widenius (
MySQL AB, founders)
Ole Husgaard (
Sparre Software, Managing Director)
Thorsten Lemke (
Lemke Software GmbH, founder and owner)
Stefan Englert (Gesellschaft für Informatik und Produktionstechnik mbH, Managing Director)
Rodolphe Quiedeville (
Lolix SA, Managing Director)
Alan Cox (CTO of
Redhat, kernel developper,
Linux UK)
Easter-Eggs SA (contact: Emanuel Raviart (Managing Director))
Oberon.net GmbH &
LF.net GmbH (contact: Kurt Jaeger: Managing Director)
Tibosoft GmbH (contact: Walter Lückemann (Managing Director))
No Nonsense Software Inc (contact: Bjarte Hetland (CEO) & Jarle Aasland (Product Manager))
Jean-Louis Lespes (
Innovence, directeur associé, lecturer on industrial economics at "Sorbonne" University in Paris)
Skyrix GmbH (contact: Jens Enders (Managing Director))
Frédéric Broydé (Chairman of
Excem, Senior member of the IEEE)
Dr. Peter Gerwinski (
G-N-U GmbH, Managing Director)
Intevation GmbH (contact: Bernhard Reiter & Jan-Oliver Wagner)
Dr. Jean-Paul Smets-Solanes (
Nexedi, Managing Director)
Markus DeWendt (Managing Director,
Open Logic Systems)
Stephan Körner (Managing Director, Pilum Technology GmbH)
Stephan Nobis (Managing Director,
ESN GmbH)
Ulf Dunkel (
invers Software Vertrieb &
Dunkel Software Distribution, Managing Director)
Dr. Jean-Philippe Rennard (économiste, expert informatique, Managing Director,
Eponyme SA)
Prof. Dr. Koen De Bosschere (professor of informatics, Ghent University, Belgium)
Prof. Dr. Wilfried Philips (professor of informatics, Ghent University, Belgium)
Prof. Dr. Dirk Stroobandt (Ghent University)
Prof. Dr. Daniel De Zutter (Ghent University)
Prof. Dr. Jan Vandewege (Ghent University)
Prof. Dr. Ghislain Hoffman (Ghent University)
Prof. Dr. Bart Dhoedt (Ghent University)
Prof. Dr. Piet Demeester (Ghent University)
Prof. Dr. Herman Tromp (Ghent University)
Prof. Dr. Kris Coolsaet (Ghent University)
Prof. Dr. Herman Bruyninckx (professor of informatics, K.U. Leuven, Belgium)
Prof. Dr. Veerle Fack (Ghent University)
Prof. Dr. Armand De Clercq (Ghent University)
Prof. Dr. Kim Mens (Université Catholique de Louvain)
Prof. Dr. Clemens H. Cap (professor of informatics, Rostock University, Germania)
Dr. Peter Bienstman (researcher, Ghent University)
Dr. Michiel Ronsse (researcher, Ghent University)
Dr. Karl-Friedrich Lenz (Professor (kyôju) für Deutsches und Europäisches Recht, Univ. Aoyama Gakuin, Japan)
Jozef Halbersztadt (Patent examiner at the Polish Patent Office, Warszawa)
Prof. Dr. iur. Christian Gizewski (Berlin Technical University,
Aktion gegen Öffentliche Sprachregelungen und Kommunikationserschwernisse)
Prof. Dr. Herbert Hrachovec (Philosophy of Science and Theory of Ditgital Media at Institute of Philosophy of Vienna University)
Prof. Dr. Charles Durand (professor Belfort-Montbéliard Technical University)
Dr. Frank Dittmann (
Gesellschaft für Kybernetik e.V.)
Dr. Gregor Nickel (Institut für Mathematik, Tübingen University)
Koenraad Vandenborre (consultant,
inno.com)
Steven Noels (consultant,
Outerthought.org)
Marc Portier (consultant,
Outerthought.org)
Jan Van den Bergh (consultant,
inno.com)
Geert Premereur (consultant,
inno.com)
Europe Shareware (contact: Pascal Ricard & Sylvain Perchaud)
German Unix User Group (GUUG.de, contact: Christian Lademann, vice president)
Dansk UNIX-system Bruger Gruppe (DKUUG.dk, contact: Ulf Nielsen)
Association Francophone des Utilisateurs de Linux et Logiciels Libres (AFUL.org, contact: Stéfane Fermigier & Bernard Lang)
Association Pour la Recherche en Informatique Libre (APRIL.org, contact: Frédéric Couchet & Odile Bénassy)
Asociación de Usuarios Españoles de GNU/Linux (HispaliNUX, contact: Juan Tomás Garcia, president)
Linux-Verband LiVe e.V. (contact: RA Dipl.-Phys. Jürgen Siepmann & Daniel Riek)
Komercielle Linux-interssenter I Danmark (KLID.dk, contact: Keld Simonsen)
Catalan Linux Users (CALIU)
Free Software Foundation Europe (contact: Georg Greve, president)
FFII (FFII.org)
Europa-Klub e.V. (contact: Prof. on. Siegfried Piotrowski)
Association Bordelaise des Utilisateurs de Logiciels Libres (ABUL.org, contact: François Pellegrini)
SSLUG.dk (contact: Anne Østergaard & Erik Josefsson)
Assoziazione Software Libero (ASSOLI, contact: Simone Piccardi, Paolo Didone & Alessandro Rubini)
Vereniging Open Source Nederland (contact: Dr. Luuk van Dijk)
Jesus González Baharona (
ProInnova)
Asociación de Software Libre de León (contact: Sergio González)
Softwarepatenter.dk (Carsten Svaneborg)
Erik Lange (
MM Manager)
Janus Sandsgaard (
Netcetera)
Ole Tange & Jesper M.Jensen (
Linux-Kurser)
more signatures (62381
persons have so far signed this appeal through our new registry form. They have thereby given us a very detailed mandate for speaking to members of the European Parliament. There is also a very simple and general
Eurolinux Petition which you may want to sign first.)