Hi,
I'm not sure if it is already known. In march the german ministry of economy and technology released a german publication about open source software. It's called "Ein Leitfaden für kleine und mittlere Unternehmen". In my opinion it is a positiv document.
More information and the document itself (pdf format) can be found at:
http://www.bmwi.de/Homepage/Politikfelder/informationsgesellschaft/publikati...
regards -Volker
Volker Dormeyer a écrit :
Hi,
I'm not sure if it is already known. In march the german ministry of economy and technology released a german publication about open source software.
Things are moving forward in France too.
For those speaking french, I'd like to point to the report wich was recently written by a french MP at the request of the Prime Minister, wich was about "electronic" administration modernisation. It contains an interesting part dealing with Free Software.
We've converted it to HTML at http://www.april.org/divers/extrait-rapport-carcenac.html.
You'll find links to the original in the top of that page.
Regards,
Volker Dormeyer wrote:
I'm not sure if it is already known. In march the german ministry of economy and technology released a german publication about open source software. It's called "Ein Leitfaden für kleine und mittlere Unternehmen". In my opinion it is a positiv document.
I have studied it.
It is certainly good that they speak in a positive way of Free Software (although they call it "Open-Source Software").
OTOH the brochure contains some serious errors, the worst of which reads (translated):
Proprietary Software ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The opposite of Open-Source Software [...]: Conventional software, proprietary software, commercial software. The latter terminus is somewhat awkward because the availability of the source code does not imply that it needn't be paid for it. But according to the Free Software Foundation commercial software is the opposite of Open-Source Software.
I offered the BMWi to proof-read the brochure (for free) long before publication. They pointed me to the company who made the brochure, and they refused.
Peter