EU Wants to Re-define “Closed” as “Nearly Open”

Posted by glynmoody on Nov 2, 2009 1:59 PM EDT
Computerworld UK; By Glyn Moody 		Mail this story
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The European Interoperability Framework (EIF) is an important document for the European public sector. Version 1 had strong support for open standards and royalty-free licences to patents. A leaked version 2 shows that open standards and open source are out, and "openness" of the vaguest kind is in, as are software patents. If this really is version 2, things are not looking good for public sector open source in the EU.

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