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<title>FSFE: NW UK businesses please tell Government that Open Standards matter</title>
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<h1>FSFE: North-West UK businesses please tell Government that Open Standards matter</h1>
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<p>Is the Government one of your potential customers? Free Software may shortly
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be locked out of opportunities in the public sector if proposed Open Standards
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policy is adopted.</p>
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<p>Tomorrow afternoon the Cabinet Office <a href="http://openstandardsroundtable5.eventbrite.co.uk/">is consulting businesses</a> in the North West of England
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on how the policy could affect the market, and whether it would result in a
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distorted playing-field for Free Software solutions.v
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Those in the Manchester area, please go to the meeting tomorrow afternoon in
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MadLab Hackerspace and tell the Government if your business uses Open Standards as part of
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a product or service.</p>
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<p>Free Software <a href="/news/2012/news-20120426-01.html">could be blocked</a> from public sector use if the new policy allows
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"FRAND" terms within British standards. Intensive lobbying efforts have focused
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on pressuring the Cabinet Office to back down on a strong definition of
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Open Standards over the past few months, as recently revealed by <a href="http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/open-enterprise/2012/04/how-microsoft-lobbied-against-true-open-standards-i/index.htm">Freedom of
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Information requests</a>.</p>
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<p>Whether a national UK standard can be adopted if it blocks Free Software by
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requiring royalties to be paid to private third parties is not yet decided -
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your comments tomorrow on how Open Standards affect your business could make
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the difference.</p>
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