Laszlo, It is not up to TDF to do something, but we have to act, each of us, individually and collectively to make sure we get results .
Best, Charles. Le Tue, 5 Apr 2011 12:22:24 +0200 (CEST), Kürti László <[email protected]> a écrit : > 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 > > > > > > -- Charles-H. Schulz Membre du Comité exécutif The Document Foundation. -- 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
