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EU warns against proprietary software

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Associated Press; By Aoife White
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BRUSSELS—The European Union's top Internet official took aim at Microsoft Corp. on Thursday, warning that governments can accidentally lock themselves into one company's software for decades by setting it as a standard for their technology systems. EU Internet Commissioner Neelie Kroes, in her previous post as EU antitrust chief, fined Microsoft hundreds of millions of euros (dollars) in a lengthy row over the company's refusal to share some data with rivals and the tying of a Web browser to a best-selling operating system. She now says she wants to draw up detailed guidelines for European governments to encourage them to require other software, especially programs based on open source code that is freely shared between developers.

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[GUADEC2010] Neelie Kroes on open source and the importance of communities

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ok100U4Fo3Y&feature=player_em...
She should apply at IBM or RedHat as marketeer... She's pretty good at it, and is at home in the 'enterprise world'.

(Seems she's not going to be our next Prime Minister, but one never knows).

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