While working on FSFE’s response to the UK government’s consultation on using Open Standards by default for government documents, I noticed something that I had apparently overlooked during the busy days ahead of FOSDEM. On Jan 24, the UK government published a few principles for future government IT contracts. They’re quite clear, quite brief, and Read more »
Tuesday saw has been involved for ten years now, after Microsoft had finally released interoperability information after years of dragging its feet, and the Commission had fined the company the record amount of EUR 899 million. But yesterday saw the parties back in Luxembourg, in a hearing room on the eight floor of the European Read more »
The sale of Novell’s patents to a consortium Microsoft, Oracle, Apple and EMC raises serious concerns about competition in the software market. This is why FSFE filed its concerns with the German competition authorities on December 22, as did others. CPTN has apparently withdrawn its application with the authorities for now.