Open Standards in Europe: FSFE responds to BSA letter
Open Standards in Europe: FSFE responds to BSA letter
[Announcements] Posted Oct 18, 2010 22:15 UTC (Mon) by ris
The Free Software Foundation Europe supports open standards and
interoperability. Now it seems that the Business Software Alliance is
trying to get the European Commission to remove support for open standards.
"On Friday FSFE sent a letter to the European Commission to support
Open Standards and interoperability. In the drawn-out battle to retain at
least a weak recommendation for Open Standards in the revised European
Interoperability Framework, FSFE has countered a leaked letter by the lobby
group Business Software Alliance with its own thorough analysis of the
relation between standards and patents.
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