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● 11.10.11

●● Pogson: Has EDGI Been at Work? (Again)

Posted in Europe, Microsoft at 12:02 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Summary: Reasonable suspicion that Microsoft paid to remove Freedom software from Dutch schools

THIS WEB site has a unique archive of EDGI exhibits. These are antitrust items that Microsoft paid to hide — court exhibits which show quite clearly how Microsoft abuses its monopoly power to pretty much bribe its way into deals and detail prospective deals of the competition, notably Free/open source and GNU/Linux. We would like to draw attention to the following couple of links from this week:

=> ↺ EDGI exhibits

Netherlands Education Abjectly Submits to M$In 1944/1945 my father risked his life to liberate The Netherlands from tyranny and now the Ministry of Education has submitted the school system to another tyranny, M$’s lock-in, without a fight. The Netherlands has been very friendly to FLOSS. Why this turnabout? Has EDGI been at work?Dutch schools throw out govt open-source policy for Silverlight Dutch education authorities have decided to throw out their government’s open standards policy and instead lock in to Microsoft proprietary software for years to come, according to open-source advocates.Marja Bijsterveldt, the Netherlands’ secretary of education, said that she was unwilling to force open standards on educational institutions, sparking an outcry from open-source advocates who say that Dutch students using free software or devices without Silverlight-support will find themselves locked out of schools’ online systems.The open standards policy was approved by the Dutch Parliament in 2007, but has not been fully implemented. Now, free software advocates are starting a new battle to make the use of open standards mandatory for all publicly funded institutions.

Silverlight is a dead product, so this makes no sense. The death of Silverlight is in the geek news sites today. See “HTML5 Triumphant: Silverlight, Flash Discontinuing”. The above makes little or no sense at all. Was there another EDGI behind closed doors? We might not find out until the next subpoena. █

=> ↺ Silverlight | ↺ in the geek news sites today | ↺ “HTML5 Triumphant: Silverlight, Flash Discontinuing”

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