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Dear AS2 Friends,
What happening?
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From: Ditesh Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Feb 12, 2007 10:12 PM
Subject: [odfsig] Microsoft continues to play power games to stop growth of
open source
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Microsoft continues to play power games to stop growth of open source.
Note the prominence of CompTIA in this report. It's unfortunate that an
organization that is working against the interest of open source is
giving a keynote speech at the AsiaOSS Conference in Bali this year.
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>From http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39285848,00.htm?r=2
EC rebuffs Microsoft over open-source report
Richard Thurston ZDNet UK
Published: 08 Feb 2007 14:41 GMT
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The European Commission has resisted efforts by Microsoft to make
it abandon its report into open-source software, it was revealed this
week. But the Commission was swayed into allowing a 10-day period for
feedback before completing the report.
Harnessing the opportunity to provide feedback, Microsoft produced 25
pages of arguments as to why the report which quantified the benefits
of open source to European organisations should be shelved. The
software giant also commissioned a respected university academic to back
its case and enlisted the help of a trade association, CompTIA. The
academic produced 45 pages of evidence supporting Microsoft's
case, while CompTIA wrote a 40-page submission.
The authors of the Commission's report, headed by academics from the
United Nations University in Maastricht, made several amendments to the
report as a result of those comments, and comments received from other
interested parties.
But the Commission remained committed to publishing the report,
according to its lead author Rishab Ghosh.
"There were critical comments from CompTIA. There were others:
Microsoft, the [Business] Software Alliance all along the same lines
as CompTIA with varying degrees of details with the intention to bury
the report," Ghosh told ZDNet UK. "They [Microsoft] threw the book at
us."
Ghosh, who is a senior open-source software researcher, said the
Commission refused to back down under Microsoft's pressure. "The
European Commission acted very properly," said Ghosh. "There were lots
of conversations [saying] that it should be published."
Asked by ZDNet UK whether the report's pro-open-source stance was
diluted after the comments, Ghosh said: "We certainly didn't weaken the
report."
Ghosh said the Commission introduced the 10-day feedback period after a
"heated discussion" at a public report workshop in September, which was
attended by several Microsoft representatives.
Since publication of the report, the European Commission has come under
further pressure from CompTIA, which is part-funded by Microsoft. The
CompTIA-backed Initiative for Software Choice wrote a stern letter to
the Commission immediately after publication requesting it to lobby the
"international press" over their coverage of the subject.
The Commission contacted ZDNet UK within days, apparently seeking to
distance itself from the report.
Ghosh subsequently posted his view on proceedings on a ZDNet UK blog .
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