Hi all, on Wednesday the EU Commission published its new Open Source Strategy. [1] We are pleased that the Commission recognises the benefits of Free Software and the four freedoms to use, study, share and improve, but the commission lacks concrete targets and indicators to implement the strategy. Without these, we worry that the strategy will end up accomplishing too little!
We released a press release on this [2] and media from Italy [3], France [4] and Germany [5] reported so far. It is noticeable that business associations, like Open Forum Europe [6] and CNLL [7] in particular are positive while fsfe and April [8] are highly critical. What is your opinion on that? (Please feel also free to also discuss in our community forum [9]. Best Alex [1] https://ec.europa.eu/info/departments/informatics/open-source-software-strategy_en#opensourcesoftwarestrategy [2] https://fsfe.org/news/2020/news-20201023-01.html [3] https://www.techeconomy2030.it/2020/10/26/open-source-strategy-sono-solo-parole/ [4] https://www.zdnet.fr/blogs/l-esprit-libre/la-commission-europeenne-et-les-logiciels-libres-ambition-molle-pour-l-april-39912003.htm [5] https://www.heise.de/news/Feigenblatt-Kritik-am-neuen-Open-Source-Kurs-der-EU-Kommission-4939338.html [6] https://www.openforumeurope.org/ofe-welcomes-the-european-commissions-new-open-source-software-strategy/ [7] https://cnll.fr/news/nouvelle-strategie-commission-europeenne-logiciel-libre/ [8] https://www.april.org/strategie-logiciel-libre-de-la-commission-europeenne-un-esprit-ouvert-qui-manque-de-force [9] https://community.fsfe.org/t/eu-open-source-policy-good-analysis-missing-concrete-next-steps/535 -- Alexander Sander - EU Public Policy Programme Manager Free Software Foundation Europe Schönhauser Allee 6/7, 10119 Berlin, Germany | t +49-157 923 472 12 Registered at Amtsgericht Hamburg, VR 17030 | (fsfe.org/join) _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list Discussion@lists.fsfe.org https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion This mailing list is covered by the FSFE's Code of Conduct. All participants are kindly asked to be excellent to each other: https://fsfe.org/about/codeofconduct
