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<title>FSFE: Lack of Open Standards "gaping hole" in EC's Digital Agenda</title> |
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<h1>Lack of Open Standards "gaping hole" in EC's Digital Agenda</h1> |
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The European Commission has officially <a href="http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/newsroom/cf/itemlongdetail.cfm?item_id=5826">published its long-awaited |
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Digital Agenda</a>, outlining its policy plans for the next five years. |
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"While it includes some important building blocks for Free Software, the |
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omission of <a href="/freesoftware/standards/standards.html">Open Standards</a> rips a gaping hole in this agenda," says |
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Karsten Gerloff, President of the Free Software Foundation Europe. |
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FSFE welcomes the Commision's plans to give standards a greater role |
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in the public procurement of software, and to get dominant software |
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vendors to license their interoperability information, opening up |
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the software market for Free Software vendors. |
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However, the Digital Agenda falls short of systematically promoting |
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Free Software and Open Standards, missing the goals that the Member |
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States have set for the Commission in the |
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<a href="http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=MEMO/10/137">Granada</a> |
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and <a href=" http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/09/1738&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=nl">Malmö</a> |
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declarations. The Digital Agenda itself avoids any reference to Open |
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Standards. Instead, the Commission points to the European |
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Interoperability Framework. This is a document which is currently |
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being systematically hollowed out, as <a href="/freesoftware/standards/eifv2.html">FSFE's analysis shows</a>. |
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"The EC needs to adopt a strict definition of Open Standards, along the |
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lines of the first European Interoperability Framework," says Gerloff. |
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He continues: "The Commission needs to put Open Standards at the heart |
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of its strategy for the public sector's IT systems. Only with the |
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competition that Open Standards enable will we tap the full potential of |
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Free Software for European innovation." |
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<h3>Press contact</h3> |
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Karsten Gerloff<br /> |
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President, Free Software Foundation Europe<br /> |
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Tel +49 176 9690 4298 |
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