BERLIN — A European plan to advise governments on software purchases has set off a lobbying battle this summer between the U.S. software giant Microsoft<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/microsoft_corporation/index.html?inline=nyt-org> and its rivals Google<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/google_inc/index.html?inline=nyt-org> , I.B.M.<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/international_business_machines/index.html?inline=nyt-org>, Red Hat andOracle<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/oracle_corporation/index.html?inline=nyt-org> over a set of guidelines that could redefine the competitive landscape for proprietary and open-source software. ..... ..... .....
In Bolzano, a city in northern Italy, a Linux users group in May challenged the provincial government’s decision to spend €2.2 million, or $2.8 million, over three years to renew and upgrade software licenses for 161 Microsoft servers and 4,000 desktop computers used to run the day-to-day business of local government. “We are afraid the administration is getting trapped in this weird logic of software license updates and vendor lock-in,” said Daniele Gobbetti, 31, the president of the Linux Users Group in Bolzano. ..... ..... Read whole article http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/19/technology/19iht-eusoftwar19.html?_r=1&src=twt&twt=nytimestech -- FOSS Nepal mailing list: [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] Mailing List Guidelines: http://wiki.fossnepal.org/index.php?title=Mailing_List_Guidelines Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/
