EU: European Commission to increase its use of Open Source

03/14/2008  
Relevance: 8.10
The European Commission will take a more pro-active approach to its own use of Open Source. In a document published last week, the EC states among others that the Commission will prefer Open Source software for its new IT projects:"For all new development, where deployment and usage is foreseen by parties outside of the Commission Infrastructure, Open Source Software will be the preferred development and deployment platform."
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Vista hit by EC fears and McAfee ire

10/03/2006  
Relevance: 7.06
More bad news for Microsoft's delayed operating system Vista - the European Commission is widening an investigation into whether or not it breaches competition law. Microsoft and the Commission were already discussing the oft-delayed software.
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Proprietary coders complain about OS study

10/21/2006  
Relevance: 6.83
Proprietary software makers have complained to the European Commission that they have not been given enough time to review a report on the economic role of Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS), and accuse the commission of being"intolerant to opposing comments" regarding the research.
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European Commission publishes guidelines on the procurement of FOSS

11/07/2008  
Relevance: 6.54
The European Commission has published guidelines for the procurement of open source for public administrations in Europe following public tender processes.
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EC to Microsoft: We're still looking

02/22/2008  
Relevance: 6.52
Microsoft today flung open its software APIs and protocols to all comers. Is it enough to persuade the European Commission to drop anti-trust investigations of the company? In a word, no. The Commission today noted that Microsoft has issued four statements in the past promoting interoperability, and it wants to see if a) the new pledge conforms with EC competition law and b) if Microsoft actually walks it like it talks it.
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EC rebuffs Microsoft over open-source report

02/09/2007  
Relevance: 6.46
The European Commission has resisted efforts by Microsoft to make it abandon its report into open-source software, it was revealed this week. But the Commission was swayed into allowing a 10-day period for feedback before completing the report.
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OSS advocates file human rights complaint against SA election body

09/02/2008  
Relevance: 6.37
The head of South Africa’s government open source working group, the chief technical officer of the State IT Agency (Sita) and The Shuttleworth Foundation, have laid a complaint with the Human Rights Commission (HRC) against the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) for excluding non-Internet Explorer users from it website.
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EU publishes its"Public License" in 22 languages, considers upgrade

02/04/2008  
Relevance: 6.23
The European Commission has approved the EUPL on 9 January 2007. The licence has then been made available in English, French and German. By a second Decision of 9 January 2008, the European Commission has validated the EUPL in all the other official languages, in respect of the principle of linguistic diversity of the European Union. EUPL has been approved as a licence to be used for the distribution of software developed in the framework of the IDA and IDABC programmes. Nevertheles, the licence text is drafted in general terms and could therefore be used for other software applications, as the case may be. At a conference organised by the European Commission in Brussels last Friday, lawyers and license experts who helped sorting out terminology and linguistics differences for all of the translations began discussing which changes and extensions would be useful in an eventual next version.
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Ec opens window to free software

08/20/2006  
Relevance: 6.10
Who can ignore Richard Stallman’s cry for freedom, and for free software? At least not the Election Commission of India, one of the pillars of Indian democracy.With Stallman, the founder of free software movement, in India on a proselytising mission, the Election Commission (EC) has decided to uninstall Microsoft Office applications from its entire workspace and replace them with OpenOffice.
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EU Court Holds the Antitrust Line Against Microsoft, but May Not Stemed its Dominance Tide

09/18/2007  
Relevance: 6.02
In what the New York Times is calling a"stinging rebuke," the European Court of First Instance issued a much-awaited judgment at 9:30 AM today in Brussels, Belgium, affirming almost all of the March 23, 2004 holdings by the European Commission that Microsoft had abused its dominant position to further expand its market share. But while the victory is a significant one for the European Commission, how great a defeat is this in fact for Microsoft? Perhaps less than first meets the eye, on which more below.
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