Here an interesting news: https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/node/157872
Let's see if there will be real action connected with it...
Regards, Matthias
On 21/12/2016 14:00, Matthias Kirschner wrote:
Here an interesting news: https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/node/157872
Let's see if there will be real action connected with it...
Yeah, well, there's what they say, and there's what they do.
The French gov did its best to prevent the recent digital bill from including real priority to Free Software in public procurement.
That was a proposal from April on their public consultation, that was ranked first until the last day (and ended up 2nd due to lobbyists pushing for e-sport recognition).
When passed at the parliament, the government said it wasn't constitutional (because they faked to not understand the difference between priority and obligation), and it ended up as a mere recommendation last June.
We all know what effects recommendations have.
See: http://www.april.org/projet-de-loi-numerique-des-codes-sources-communicables...
François.
Le 21/12/2016 14:00, Matthias Kirschner a écrit :
Here an interesting news: https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/node/157872
Let's see if there will be real action connected with it...
Regards, Matthias
Hi, it it wasn't such a serious subject, we could laugh for hours...
"Le logiciel libre est un moteur puissant en faveur de l’innovation. L’Allemagne et la France veilleront à ce que leurs industries tirent le plus grand bénéfice possible du logiciel libre." means: "Free software is a big engine for innovation. Germany and france will take care their industries take most part in the profits brought by free software".
And: "Encouraging free software and open standards to bring about the digital transformation of the economy and create our future industry, is closely linked to France’s policies to encourage its public administrations to use free software and open formats, Fermigier commented by email."
Why could this be funny? Because france took huge contracts with micro$oft so that they furnish hardware, software and knowledge to workers and students in, at least, national defense agency(except one of its branch, using Ubuntu for years) and educational system. So france president has nothing else to do in his work than saying useless lies in congress? And additionaly, he will leave in a few months and it's sadly almost sure that politic mouvement that will replace him will be even more against opposed to, or unaware of, free software. And I don't even talk about free society... well I must stop because I could spend all my life complaining about them and people who vote such idiots.
I think we need to promote the fact that the skills needed to support all this are out there, just finding them is just perhaps a little harder than say finding people with MS skills. what is needed is for the policy makers and employers to know the help is there and where / how to find that help.
COst of that help is also important, in terms of salaries if these are too high it adds to the TOC and people go back to MS due to lack of support or affordable support, even though longer termhigher salaries for Linux admins may negate costs of licenses and other expenses associated with closed source software,
promoting and keeping groups such as Linux user groups active is perhaps really important.
paul
On 21/12/16 13:00, Matthias Kirschner wrote:
Here an interesting news: https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/node/157872
Let's see if there will be real action connected with it...
Regards, Matthias
* Matthias Kirschner mk@fsfe.org [2016-12-21 14:00:41 +0100]:
Here an interesting news: https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/node/157872
Let's see if there will be real action connected with it...
I forgot to follow-up here. Thank you all for your feedback. I agree actions matter more than talk.
But it is also important and necessary for our topics to be talked about. So even if there would be currently no action in this area, it is good as a debate helps us to reach more people.
Furthermore it helped me to differ that some of this talk is done by different people than some of the actions from the same government.
Again thanks for the feedback.
Best Regards, Matthias