On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 9:19 AM, VidAyer <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 4:38 AM, Szilveszter Farkas > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I really hope you could help us with some ideas about the situation... >> We're a bit desperate, because we see other European governments >> switching to FLOSS solutions, and ours locking itself into the >> proprietary world even more. > > We've had similar situations in India, especially with the OOXML and > patent issue gaining a backdoor entry. In India the FSF-India is
You could try contacting FSF-Europe which might be able to guide you better. As Jan mentioned there would be some minimum standards/legal requirements that every government has to meet and the NGO (non-government organisations) can help the cause of Libre software. In India there are NGO's that work toward such public causes so its a matter of finding the lawyers collective that understands Libre software AND is sympathetic to the cause. You also need the media on your side...no, not the technical journals...the "mainstream" media (print, radio and TV) has a lot more reach potential so try and talk to a few of them who would be very keen to help if one deals with them patiently and professionally while explaining the upside of Libre software. Try and explain how small and medium businesses would have to shell out a lot more money and keep comparative figures handy to quote from. With the economy going south, governments/business houses will understand money-speak a lot easier than philosophical aspects. hth, Vid || http://www.svaksha.com || || You are what your deepest desire is ; As you desire, so is your intention ; As your intention, so is your will ; As is your will, so is your deed ; As is your deed, so is your destiny | ~Upanishads || -- loco-contacts mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts
