Op dinsdag 20-01-2009 om 07:38 uur [tijdzone +0530], schreef VidAyer: > 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.
FFII might be able to help too (they did a lot of good work on the software patents issue, but also on other things). See: <http://ffii.org/> There is also no reason to restrict this to open source: other companies make software too, and they don't get a chance if the tender is restricted to Microsoft software. (And if no company makes the whole range of applications they need, the same EU directive I mentioned in my previous mail says explicitly that a group of smaller companies must be given the same chances, provided that combined they can offer the same functionality.) > 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. Also, having a Hungarian EP (EU Parliament) member ask questions might help to get attention from the press, as the press knows him/her already, and he/she knows the press (which is one reason I mentioned that). -- Jan Claeys -- loco-contacts mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts
