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Is the new open source Eurolicense eurotrash?

TheOpenAnalyst — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 05:20:00 +0000

The Open Source initiative updated one of its licenses this month, the EU DataGrid Software License.

This turns out not to be eurotrash. Instead it’s an important example of negotiating credit in a multinational corporate environment.

Is the new open source Eurolicense eurotrash? | Open Source | ZDNet.com

More EU Open Source Software Allegations Against Microsoft

TheOpenAnalyst — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 09:09:00 +0000

On February 26, some organization called Wikileaks (just what you think it means) proudly outed an alleged Microsoft (MSFT) front group’s alleged comments on the alleged working draft of an alleged European Union (EU) workgroup on open source software. I have no idea if any of the allegations is true, but the pomposity of Wikileaks and the poor quality of the document, whatever its source, provide a little humor in these dark economic times.

Wikileaks says it only outs documents with “political, diplomatic, ethical or historical significance.” If this document–full of the usual EU nonsense mispositioning open source software–is of any significance, it demonstrates how low politics, diplomacy, ethics and history have sunk. The document is full of comments of all types so it is not clear which comments allegedly come from the alleged Microsoft front group, called the Association for Competitive Technology (ACT). (For the record ACT is listed as a K-Street Washington, D.C. lobbyist funded by eBay (EBAY), Microsoft, Oracle (ORCL), Orbitz (OWW), Verisign (VRSN) and–according to its web site–3000 other companies.)

More EU Open Source Software Allegations Against Microsoft — Seeking Alpha

EC to publish open source procurement guidelines

TheOpenAnalyst — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 04:52:08 +0000

The European Commission’s Open Source Observatory and Repository OSOR is working on guidelines for public bodies on how to procure open source software. A draft version of the report Guidelines on public procurement and Open Source Software is available for public discussion until 5th November.

The authors of the document include Rishab Gosh, a member of the board of the Open Source Initiative OSI and author of an EU study on the role of open source software in the European economy.

EC to publish open source procurement guidelines | heise online