Hi: On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 06:10:32PM +0100, Pierre Buyle wrote: > So, the FEDICT believe in letting the market decides what to offer to > the people.
Well, in fact they may not push one of the actors; saying this they decided apparently to not decide, so you're right, if there is no offer based on Free and Open-Source, + with Gnu/Linux (or other) that's because there are no any consortium with such offers. >At the same time, the EC agreed that MS abused of its > position on the market to hurt its competitors. And even if MS didn't > abuse of its position, the market is heavily unbalanced because two > companies (MS and Apple) have more than 95% of its shares. So I find > it foolish to believe that any free market theory can be applied. Send remarks to the Minister Van Quickenborne, that may help in understanding why there aren't any effort from fedict to defend and propose free software too or to push the current candidates to propose free and open solutions. > IMHO, by doing nothing to restore some competition on a broken and > unbalanced market the FEDICT actually asserts its preference to > preserve the actual state of the world. Agree with you. It's a judgment of "Ponsius Pilatus"! Y P -- ubuntu-be mailing list / mailto:[email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-be
