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To: Al Bearse who wrote ()	4/20/2000 2:29:00 PM
From: SunSpot	Read Replies (3) of 74651

Old news (Danish, from march 1st, 2000): ing.dk The article is from the member newspaper of the Danish equivalent to IEEE. I hope this summary is a precise translation: European Commission (a kind of European Government) has completed a set of recommendations on how Europe can support the deployment of free software in order to prevent monopolies to be formed in the software business. IBM and other big companies have expressed their support to these recommendations. Some of the recommendations are: - Resources for organizing open-source software should be provided by the European Commission, both for administration of source-code and for organizing meetings for open-software developers etc. - The European Union (EU) should make reference implementations of software based on open source for protocols and protocol standards. - Open source should be financed by EU in order to make the software provide the functionality that is critical for further development. - The EU rules for "call for tender" should be changed in order to make open-source licenses a criteria for choice of vendor. This will make it possible for open-source licensed software to be more expensive than closed-licensed software and still win the call for tender. - Projects that enhance open-source software should get better attention. - An open-source authority should be established in order to help member countries to implement open-source solutions on all levels. - Projects for internationalization of open-source software should be supported. - Open-source should be implemented as a method in EU supported research in order to make research results more accessible. - Research into the influence of open-source software on society should be established and supported. - The patent area has to be modernized in order to prevent a software patent situation like the one in USA. Although the EU commissioner for IT, Erkki Liikanen, has expressed a very positive attitude to open-source several times, the working group doesn't expect official EU opinion on open-source until later this year. In several member countries there are already today open-source related bills under way in the parliaments.

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