Jan Bongaerts schreef:
The way I interpret this, it doesn't seem they want to force anything
either way. It would appear that they also want the people to be able
to exercise their right to be a real dumb-ass and stick to Microsoft
and their cronies. Forcing Open Source and/or Linux down everyone's
throat wouldn't be fair neither.
If it would be about open source software, you would be right. But it's
not!!! It's about open standards, which doesn't have very much to do
with Linux. See
http://nl.wikibooks.org/wiki/Open_standaarden#Vaak_voorkomende_misverstanden
(but it's in Dutch).
So it's eg. not about OpenOffice.org, but about OpenDocumentFormat
(which you can open with OpenOffice, KOffice, AbiWord,...).
So it's eg. not about Windows Media Player, but about Ogg Vorbis or Ogg
Theora (eg.).
These misunderstandings between Open Source Software and Open Standards
happen a lot, it's very important to understand the differences,
although they seem alike!
Greetings
Mattias
Just like one should still be free to choose to become a bum in
Brussels. It does have it advantages too, you know. Especially when
you throw all your papers away, you get all sorts of perks from our
government!
Or have I missed the plot here?
Jan.
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 1:27 AM, Jan Claeys <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Op dinsdag 03-11-2009 om 09:42 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Jan
Bongaerts:
> Even if it is important, if this is implemented this way,
ignoring Mr.
> Novaretti's statement, I don't think it would *ban* open standards,
> but it just would not *demand* them. That would only seem fair,
> wouldn't it?
This is about how information is communicated to us, citizens, and how
we can communicate with the government.
I don't want the EU or national or local government to be able to
force
me and tell me which operating system, office software, browser,
etc. I
have to use (if I don't want to become a homeless person living in the
Brussels metro).
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