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Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> European Commission denies favouring open source
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| The Commission's statement comes just days after it was lobbied to
>| clarify its position on open source. The Initiative for Software
>| Choice (ISC) wrote to the Commission immediately after the
>| release of the report urging it to contact the "international
>| press" to "set the record straight" over its stance. The ISC's
>| external affairs are handled by CompTIA, which is funded by
>| several IT vendors including Microsoft.
>| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> `----
>
> http://uk.news.yahoo.com/30012007/152/european-commission-denies-favouring-open-source.html
>
> Last week, the convicted monopoly abuser, through this proxy (they have
> several around the world), attacked the credibility of the EC. This is not
> the first time attempts are made by Microsoft to hurt the EC (see refs).
> This is also happening in Asia. They call these bodies "software neutrality"
> or "software choice", but these are actually intended to lobby against Open
> Source (or any risk to their funders). BSA is a similar example, but it
> serves other purposes, like SCO.
It's worse than that, they are lobbying for proprietary software, ie.,
they are lobbying that the EC's public funds should be used to lock the
EC into proprietary software, and pay a proprietary tax in order to
access it's data. Clearly, this is completely unacceptable, and these
lobbying organisations should be looked at very hard indeed to determine
whether they should be allowed any kind of influence at all. It's quite
clear that they are looking for public money to be not only wasted, but
worse, to be handed to private individuals and orgnanisations in foreign
geographies.
It's time the open-source lobbying crowd began to deal with
organisations like the "ISC" who lobby for lock-in.
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| Mark Kent -- mark at ellandroad dot demon dot co dot uk |
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