[Infowarrior] - Leaked Letter — BSA Pressures Europe To Kill Open Standards

[Richard Forno]

Defending Open Standards: FSFE refutes BSA's false claims to European Commission

Author: Karsten Gerloff, Carlo Piana and Sam TukePublished: 2010-10-15

The Business Software Alliance (BSA) is pressuring the European Commission to remove the last vestiges of support for Open Standards from the latest version of the EU's interoperability recommendations, the European Interoperability Framework. 

FSFE has obtained a copy of a letter sent to the Commission by the BSA last week. In the following paragraphs we analyse the BSA's arguments and explain why their claims are false, and why Open Standards are key to interoperability and competition in the European software market. We have shared this analysis with the European Commission.

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http://www.fsfe.org/projects/os/bsa-letter-analysis.html.en