Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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> EU open-source document reflects Microsoft influence
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> | One such editor is Jonathan Zuck, president of the Association for
> | Competitive Technology, a lobbying organization with strong ties to
> | Microsoft. There is nothing wrong with Microsoft making its voice heard
> | in the software strategy development process,
There is everything wrong with corporations infiltrating government
through back doors. All of their efforts and lobbying need to be collated
on any matter and converted to just one vote.
This is normal practice and should be more vigourously enforced.
> as it stands to gain or
> | lose much in the process, but it does make for some interesting
> | political gamesmanship in the document.
> |
> | While the draft doesn't make it obvious who is saying what, there are
> | numerous instances where editors have tried to soften the appeal of open
> | source or downplay its significance, repeatedly trying to insist that
> | open source not be called out as more significant than proprietary
> | software.
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> http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10193433-16.html
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> Recent:
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> How to Hijack an EU Open Source Strategy Paper
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> | Others as in Microsoft and mates.
> |
> | All-in-all, the modifications to the document provide a fascinating
> | insight into how lobbyists operate in their attempt to neuter threats to
> | their constituencies through the shameless evisceration and outright
> | inversion of content. Fortunately, when the final strategy document
> | comes out, we will be able to pinpoint exactly where ACT's agenda has
> | been inserted. Of course, before then we need to make the above document
> | as widely known as possible, so that the relevant people at the European
> | Union are aware of what's going on, and maybe even take action to
> | prevent this gross distortion of the paper's purpose.
> |
> | In addition, we must ensure that Wikileaks can continue to provide its
> | invaluable service. The world of openness ? including open source -
> | would be the poorer without it. To that end, we need to support its
> | current call for funds to help it carry on its work, and I urge you to
> | make a donation, however modest.
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> http://www.linuxjournal.com/content
how-hijack-eu-open-source-strategy-paper
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> European Commission OSS Strategy Draft, Mar 2009
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> | This file is an edited version of the EU OSS Strategy draft with the
> | input of Jonathan Zuck, President of the Association for Competitive
> | Technology, an organisation that has strong ties with Microsoft[1]
> |
> | The file is a draft for an expert panel formed by the European
> | Commission. This panel is divided into workgroup (IPR, Open Source,
> | digital life, etc.) ACT and Comptia have been infiltrating every
> | workgroup, even the one on Open Source (WG 7). They are doing the best
> | they can to drown any initiative that would not only promote OSS in
> | Europe but also that could help Europe create a sucessful European
> | software sector.
> |
> | The audience for this document could be journalists who would be
> | interested in getting to know more how lobbies of all kind influence the
> | European institutions. Here it is perhaps even more stringent as ACT is
> | clearly an US organization with ties to Microsoft. Verifications might
> | not be easy as this is an internal draft. The best contact might be
> | commission personnel: Lars.PEDERSEN@xxxxxxxxxxxx ;
> | Michel.Lacroix@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> |
> | It has been leaked as it is important to have the public know how actual
> | policy making is being influenced by lobbies that are precisely under
> | the legal scrutiny of the European Commission. The urgency of the
> | publication of this document is real in the sense that outside pressure
> | would foce the Commission to "clean the committees" or at least give a
> | lesser credit to the work of this workgroup.
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> http://wikileaks.org/wiki/European_Commission_OSS_Strategy_Draft
2C_Mar_2009
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> Related:
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> Bam! Comical Creese debunks OpenDocumentFormat Alliance
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> | You are free to inspect the irregularities website that documents few
> | cases reported by the online press and blogs. We got much more reports
> | on an informal base per email. The Swedish single employee story is not
> | credible, actually committee stuffing took place in Sweden.
> |
> | On loopholes, that?s another subjective call, but since Microsoft
> | competitors managed to establish control over a standards initiative
> | with potentially dire consequences for one of Microsoft?s most
> | important business domains, we are not surprised that Microsoft
> | (legitimately, albeit with what some consider to be poor standards
> | etiquette) exploited the loopholes. As we noted, we assume ISO will
> | update its procedures to eliminate the loopholes in the future.
> |
> | What?
> |
> | Microsoft competitors managed to establish control over a standards
> | initiative?
> |
> | What?
> |
> | Microsoft competitors managed to establish control over a standards
> | initiative with potentially dire consequences for one of Microsoft?s
> | most important business domains, we are not surprised that Microsoft
> | ? exploited the loopholes.
> |
> | ???
> |
> | but since Microsoft competitors managed to establish control over a
> | standards initiative with potentially dire consequences for one of
> | Microsoft?s most important business domains, we are not surprised
> | that Microsoft (legitimately, albeit with what some consider to be
> | poor standards etiquette) exploited the loopholes.
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> http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-41447
bam-comical-creese-debunks-opendocumentformat-alliance
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> Microsoft?s secretive standards orgs in Former Yugoslavia
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> | Croatian laws keep its national body?s votes secret, so the only way for
> | the Croatian public to find out how the process went would be if a board
> | member illegally leaked information out of CSI. This is, of course,
> | unlikely to happen. And the Serbian national standardization body is not
> | officially formed, so those two votes were easy for Microsoft, and
> | probably not only ones around the globe.
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> http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/092407-ooxml.html?page=1
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> Microsoft Tech Ed 2007: OpenXML
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> | He was asked "Why did Microsoft push OOXML through the "Fast Track"
> | process instead of the standard ISO process? Wouldn't they get less
> | resistance than faced now?"
> |
> | His response was very frank: "Office is a USD$10 billion revenue
> | generator for the company. When ODF was made an ISO standard, Microsoft
> | had to react quickly as certain governments have procurement policies
> | which prefer ISO standards. Ecma and OASIS are 'international
> | standards', but ISO is the international 'Gold Standard'. Microsoft
> | therefore had to rush this standard through. Its a simple matter of
> | commercial interests!"
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> http://www.openmalaysiablog.com/2007/09/microsoft-tech-.html
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> How OOXML vote could change all -- and nothing
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> | Whether the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) should
> | adopt OOXML is a question that has fuelled a blog battle between
> | supporters and opponents, ahead of this week's meeting in Geneva to
> | finalize the text that will be put to the vote.
> |
> | But will the final decision even matter?
> |
> | Definitely not, according to Andy Updegrove, a Boston lawyer who works
> | with industry standards bodies.
> |
> | [...]
> |
> | Whatever the outcome of the vote, that secrecy is one of the things that
> | should change in the way IT standards are developed, Sutor said.
> |
> | "Minutes should be published. This secrecy ... has to end," he said.
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> http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=1776565889&rid=-50
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