Open Source, Open Standards Under Attack In Europe

Glyn Moody writes "A battle for the soul of European IT is taking place behind closed doors in Brussels. At stake is the key Digital Agenda for Europe, due to be unveiled in a month's time. David Hammerstein, ex-Member of European Parliament for the Greens, tweeted last week: 'SOS to everyone as sources confirm that Kroes is about to eliminate "open standards" policy from EU digital agenda; Kroes has been under intense lobbying pressure from Microsoft to get rid of interoperability and open source goals of EU.' This is confirmed by the French magazine PC Inpact (Google translation), which also managed to obtain a copy of the draft Digital Agenda (DOC). It's currently supportive of both open source and open standards — but for how much longer?"

War

[Aphoxema]

This is terribly exciting and I'm not even sure why...

In AD 2010

[PenisLands]

War was beginning.

Re:Good

[binarylarry]

Correct.

HTML = Widely used around the globe
Silverlight = Used at Microsoft HQ and a small number of prefailed web projects

Re:Importance

[Anonymous Coward]

It`s you. They`ve heard about you and they prefer to avoid you so that they don`t have to institute rationing to ensure sufficient supply. If you ever start to show signs of self control and decorum, they may reconsider. You may think posting anonymously helps, but they know who you are. Heck, after the last incident, everybody in your city knows who you are.

Re:Great!

[monoi]

"I'm a PC and the Windows 7 Browser Selection Tool was my idea!"

Re:Acta related?

[that this is not und]

So are you a troll or a shill?

He comes here to stir things up and try to get over his anger that they won't let him into Mensa.

Re:objection

[Pflipp]

IT has lots of soul. You have been in IT too long. Now it has your soul, too.