[Discussioni] [marketing] Re: [discuss] Another country in war against Software Monopoly (fwd)

[Carlo Daffara]

Penso potrebbe interessare altri in lista...
ciao
							Carlo Daffara

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Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 15:38:18 -0000
From: Artur Correia <artur.correia a netvisao.pt>
Reply-To: marketing a whiteboard.openoffice.org
To: discuss a openoffice.org, marketing a whiteboard.openoffice.org
Subject: [marketing] Re: [discuss] Another country in war against Software
    Monopoly

Portuguese Government also passed a law establishing guidelines (Minister's
Council Resolution nº21/2002, of Jan. 31st) for software systems
implementation for Public Administration.
This speciffically states that Public Administratuon services shall choose
opensource systems and software if this is the best option regarding
cost/benefit.
This also states that proprietary software is an option but it assures the
possibility for a change to opensource, freeware or even shareware, provided
that several requirements are met, like funcionality, security,
administration costs, data integrity, etc....
This also states that (imagine) Public Administration is bound to prevent
and correct illegal use of software ... as if it wasn't event before the law
was passed.

This last comment (and this is my personal belief) states the obvious: that
Microsoft has an enourmous debt towards software piracy. It wouldn't be so
well succeded if they would have always exercised copyright law over people
that made illegal use of their  software. Actually, i believe that software
piracy was incentivated.

Anyway, European Union has the eEurope action plan, wich specifically
mentions Open Source Iniciative. May not be much but copyright is still a
right, wich needs legal protection, as well as copyleft. Two different
concepts for different people, for different conceptions of the world.
Opensource also generates revenue, but on a different approach.

Artur Correia.
----- Original Message -----
From: Gianluca Turconi <luctur a comeg.it>
To: <discuss a openoffice.org>; <marketing a whiteboard.openoffice.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 2:46 PM
Subject: [discuss] Another country in war against Software Monopoly


> Hi *,
>
> on February 26, 2002 a new law bill has been presented to the Italian
> Senate (Senate Act #1188) for discussion and future approval. Its title
> sounds like:
>
> "Rules about the Information pluralism, the adoption and diffusion of the
> Free Software and the portability of the document formats in the Public
> Administration."
>
> Some interesting articles extracted from the text:
>
> <quote>
>
> Art 3 : Whoever has the right to develop, release and use a software
> compatible with the communication standards and save formats of another
> application, even a proprietary one.
>
> Art 4, paragraph 1 : Whoever, in the exercise of an legal activity, makes
> publicly available some data, has to guarantee for the access to them by
> using open communication standards and document formats.
>
> Art 6, paragraph 1 : The Public Administration has to utilize, during its
> activity, only computer software of which it holds the source code.
>
> Art 6, paragraph 3 : The Public Adminsitration that wishes to utilize
> proprietary software, has to motivate analytically the reason of its
choice.
>
> Art 8 : The Ministry of the Public instruction has to follow the content
> and the principles included in the present law inside the school system
and
> the didactic programs...
>
> Art. 10 : Within 3 years since the approval of the present law, the
> corporate bodies of the Public Administration have to adjust their
> structures and their own personnel training programs according to what
> listed in the Article 6 above.
>
> </quote>
>
> I don't know when or even if this law bill will be approved, but it's a
> good thing to see that national states like Italy and Germany are trying
to
> support the Open Source and Free Software, while the European Union is
> "underhandly" approving the software patents (copyright is enough!).
>
> Finally, I was wondering how we may create a real OOo program (with an
> introducing document and maybe a presentation) for contacting Governmental
> entities and institutions. Remember that their approach is quite different
> from the corporate one. Any suggestion or hints?
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Gianluca Turconi
> OpenOffice.org Marketing Project Member and Co-Founder
> http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/marketing/
> Open Office Documentation Project (OOoDocs) Co-Maintainer
> http://www.ooodocs.org/
>
>
>
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