Moro Ilkka,
Onko sulla mitään tietoa Karstenin kirjoittamasta aiheesta? Mulla ei ainakaan.
2013/6/21 Karsten Gerloff gerloff@fsfeurope.org:
Hey Otto, Martin,
I just heard that something interesting is going on in Finland's parliament. It's a little complicated, but please bear with me for a moment.
The European Commission is using a system called E-PRIOR to internally manage all their documents related to procurement. They have made this tool available under EUPL on JoinUp. The Belgian federal government has started using this tool as well. [1]
Now it appears that the Finnish government (or at least someone in the government) is also considering to use E-PRIOR to replace their current proprietary system.
I hear that someone in Finland's parliament is asking questions about this, alleging that the use of Free Software is unfair competition.
If those questions have already been asked, it would be good if we at FSFE would help the government in formulating a response. Recently in Switzerland, there was a lawsuit along similar lines, with a vendor suing to stop a public body from using a Free Software system. [2]
Do you know anything about this? Can you find out?
I'll be happy to do the work on substance, but my Finnish is still rather weak.
Thanks & best, Karsten
[1] As a detail: Rather than setting up E-PRIOR on their own servers, the Belgians use it on the Commission's servers. So the EC is basically running a cloud service for the Belgian government.
[2] It so happened that that public body was a court, and that the vendor's suit was handled by the same court. The vendor lost. The program in question was called OpenJustitia.
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