Hello Myriam, Thanks for this explanation and I'm glad to read the counter-statement of the appellants.
Simon --------------------------- Simon Schneebeli 078 619 31 18 --------------------------- Myriam Schweingruber wrote: > On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 22:31, Simon Schneebeli > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I just read that there was no agreement between the official Swiss >> software buyers and open source organisations: >> http://www.efd.admin.ch/00468/index.html?msg-id=30618&lang=fr >> >> I was a bit surprised to read that the government "Le service >> d'adjudication a informé les recourants [...] qu'elle doit en >> particulier garantir l'égalité de traitement de tous les soumissionnaires". >> >> Wow, so why did they not even consider open source solutions? Somehow I >> have the impression that either me or someone else did not fully >> understand what "égalité de traitement" means. Can anyone explain me? >> > > You might have read about the complaint filed by several Swiss firms > offering Free Software solutions because the legal rules were not > respected on the federal level. The "égalité de traitement" argument > is frankly bullshit IMHO, since they made a mistake in the first place > and never ever did public submissions for license purchases as they > should have. But the damage is done and they made the license purchase > and now they try to limit the costs. > > Also, it's due to the rather complicated submission process the Swiss > government uses, which scares away nearly all "PME/KMU" who do not > actually have somebody dedicated to spot potential submissions, and > then submit in the appropriate format, and in time. This is all very > time (and money) intensive, so not that easy to realize for potential > interesting firms. > > It is also to be noted that the official call for submissions have > very often simply not been made as they should have, but the > "Informatikdienste/Services Informatiques" relied on what they already > had, without the slightest consideration that they might actually look > elsewhere or respect the rules and make public submissions. There has > been public focus recently on another case, since the city (or was it > canton?) of Bern did decide on solutions without even bothering making > a call for public submission. I think Theo Schmid has more insight in > that particular case. > > Luckily there is now more public focus on how the tax money is spent > since there is a parliamentary group who keeps their eyes open on such > things. Also groups like ch/open, Wilhelm Tux and the FSFE (sorry for > those I did not list, no wrong intended) try to raise awareness on the > procedures. Keep in mind that keeping ones eyes on this and raise > awareness is also quite some work and the more volunteers give a hand, > the better this can be achieved :) > > Hope this answers your question, else you might want to have a look at > the relevant pages on the following websites: > > http://www.digitale-nachhaltigkeit.ch/ > http://www.ch-open.ch/sigs/osswhitepaper/osswhitepaper.pdf > > I certainly forgot half of the information here, but I am a bit in a > hurry here and I think both Mathias Stürmer and Theo Schmid will be > delighted to give you more details :) > > > Regards, Myriam. > > -- Ubuntu-ch mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-ch
