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<title>Open Letter to EU institutions: Time to support Open Standards </title> |
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<h1>Open Letter to EU institutions: Time to support Open Standards</h1> |
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<p>In |
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an <a href="/freesoftware/standards/2014-03-26.OpenLetterToVilella.html">open |
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letter</a> to the European Parliament and the European Commission, |
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Free Software Foundation Europe |
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and <a href="http://openforumeurope.org">Open Forum Europe</a> are |
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asking the European institutions to improve their support for Open |
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Standards. The letter is directed to Giancarlo Vilella, the president |
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of the European Parliament's DG ITEC and chair of the |
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Inter-Institutional Committee for Informatics. |
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In a |
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recent <a href="https://ameliaandersdotter.eu/sites/default/files/andersdotter_annex.pdf">letter</a> |
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to MEP Amelia Andersdotter, the EC acknowledges that is is in a state |
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of "effective captivity" to Microsoft. As FSFE |
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has <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/2011/06/06/the-european-commissions-locked-in-syndrome/">pointed |
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out repeatedly</a>, this is a persistent problem for the Commission, |
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the Council and the Parliament. |
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"Recognising a problem is always the first step towards solving it. We |
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appreciate the Commission's newfound frankness on the subject," says |
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FSFE's president Karsten Gerloff. "Along with Europe's citizens and |
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the continent's software industry, we now expect the Commission to |
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take action and free itself from this captivity." |
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The letter also raises the issue of video formats. Currently, it is |
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difficult or impossible for Free Software users to follow the |
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proceedings of the Parliament and the Council in real time, because |
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the live video streams of these organisations rely on proprietary |
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technology. This is a problem which OFE and FSFE have highlighted for |
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many years. |
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"This would be a comparatively simple measure for the European |
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institutions to improve the transparency of their work for ordinary |
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citizens," says Gerloff. "We fail to understand why there has not been |
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more progress on this issue over the past six years." |
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