Charles, I was asking the European members personally! to take something against it. We here in Hungary spent the last 5 years with lobbying for only to let the FLOSS into the public sector. Earlier it was not possible. We had some positive results 'cause we could refer the EU policies. But if the EC don't give ...t what can I say? I tell you, nothing! And really all the national governments will be more than happy to find an excuse not to do anything for interoperability, for standardization and for freedom.
If we?, you? (TDF) have the will and members stand behind this case than we have a chance. Yes we must act an intelligent way but first of all we must act. Laszlo ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charles-H. Schulz" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, April 5, 2011 11:16:58 AM Subject: Re: [tdf-discuss] European Commitee enter talks with MS licences, Please make your action today against it. Hello Laszlo, Le Tue, 5 Apr 2011 09:42:10 +0200 (CEST), Kürti László <[email protected]> a écrit : > Hi All, > > Sorry for this off topic but this is serious > http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/print/9215419/EC_enters_talks_with_Microsoft_for_new_licenses?taxonomyName=IT+in+Government&taxonomyId=13 > > If this come true than we (LibreOffice an other FLOSS products) will > be down and out, buried by dust for ever, governments do not need > better excuse than this. > > Please make your action today: > blog about, send a mail to your member of EP, tell the local media I would not be as pessimistic as you are, the EC is unfortunately a MS shop, but there is certainly ground to protest; I'd suggest you use other, more focused initiatives than this list to take action: http://interopwikiproject.com/public-procurement:ec-pushes-ahead-with-windows-7-migration Best, Charles. > > Thx > Laszlo > > -- > Kürti László > Open SKM Agency Kft. > 1024 Budapest Kút u. 5 > www.openskm.com > [email protected] > (+36-1)-788-6556 > > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
