lobbying Free Software in competitions run by public institutions

Timo Juhani Lindfors timo.lindfors at iki.fi
Mon Aug 22 16:20:06 UTC 2011


Federico Bruni <bruni at fsfe.org> writes:
> It seems that there's no particular reason behind this requirement.  The
> organizers haven't explained why other programs are not allowed.
> Probably, they will publish the score of the winner and they want to be
> sure that the source is made by the software used by the big publishing
> companies.

My guess is that they only know these two programs well. But again, you
better ask. You might get better answers if you attach a screencast that
illustrates how you can do the task with your free software program :-)



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