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● 11.09.08

●● Does Microsoft Rely on Illegal Tenders to Shun Free Software?

Posted in Europe, Free/Libre Software at 5:59 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Is Freedom excluded because of illegal activity?

THE issue of procurement is one that we touched on before. This issue has become hot again because of the following articles from the past couple of weeks:

=> touched on before

Procurement and Open Source Software (2008) – draft versionEuropean Commission publishes guidelines on the procurement of FOSSPublic Procurement and FOSSMany software tenders in EU maybe ‘illegal’Hidden cost of proprietary standards may lead to illegal tenders

We wish to draw attention to the following disgusting incident.

=> ↺ the following disgusting incident

Council does not want to provide its contract with Microsoft, destroys study on Open Source

Marco Cappato MEP asked the Council to provide him the contract concluded by the Council and Microsoft, and the Study on the Open Source realized by the interinstitutional committee on informatics in 2005. The Council refused to supply these documents.

It true, this would not be the first time that Microsoft relies on illegal contracts [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7] or a case where its cronies interfere with, shaft, or manipulate studies on Free/open source software [1, 2, 3, 4]. This has got to stop. █

=> 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4

Related reading (external):

Quebec government sued for buying Microsoft softwareThe Tragedy of the Anti-CommonsInterview with NOiV’s Maarten Wijnen-Meijer on Study on Gov’t Acquisition of OS Software – Pick Your BrainsNL: Use of Open Source software requires no European IT tendersLawmaker blasts U.K. government on Microsoft policyUK Government: Closed Minds on Open SourceThe UK has wasted over $4 billion on failed IT projects since 2000Feds revise IT procurement modelGovernments slammed for anti-competitive software tendering practices

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