[Infowarrior] - Open Source and Open Standards under Threat in Europe

[Richard Forno]

Open Source and Open Standards under Threat in Europe
March 29, 2010

Posted by: Glyn Moody

Open source is under attack in Europe. Not openly or obviously, but in  
the background, behind closed doors. The battleground is the imminent  
Digital Agenda for Europe, due to be unveiled by the European  
Commission in a month's time, and which defines the overall framework  
for Europe's digital policy. According to people with good contacts to  
the politicians and bureaucrats drawing up the Agenda, Microsoft is  
lobbying hard to ensure that open standards and open source are  
excluded from that policy - and is on the brink of succeeding in that  
aim.

We need to get as many people as possible writing to the key  
Commissioners *now* if we are to stop them. Details of who to write to  
are given below. To help you frame things, here's some background on  
what's at stake.

The battle over open source and open stan

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