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Yes Rick send me a copy and I'll have a look at it. Keith On Monday 07 July 2003 9:18 pm, Rick Timmis wrote: > Thanks for that Adrian > > There are so many strong comments in your email, I have just appended > the whole thing to the document for inclusion into the text later > > Thanks Rick > > I have mailed you what there is now off list. > > If anyone else wants a copy let me know, although it needs work now to > peice it all together. Perhaps Keith would like to have a crack at it > > Thanks Rick > > Adrian Midgley wrote: > >EU/EC and national policy > >------------------------------------- > >In several areas the European Commission has promoted the use of > >Open Source software, and the development by Open SOurce > >methodologies, most notably in the field of healthcare. > > > >This accords well with several nations' policies of preferring > >an Open Source solution to one which is encumbered, at present > >by proprietary rights and non-publication of the source code, > >but potentially by the inclusion of patented elements used to > >lock public services into a particualar company's product. > > > >To the extent which extension or continuance of patentability of > >software components impeded this, such an extension would be > >contrary to that public policy and to the public interest which > >the policies serve. > > > >References > > > >EC OSS in health > >SPIRIT > >http://www.euspirit.org/zope/en/linkxchg/index_html > > > >Munich city government IT procurement > >http://www.forbes.com/home_europe/newswire/2003/05/28/rtr984204.html > > > > > ><section ends> > > > >>>And possibly the public sector as distinct from corporate > >>>industry (whose needs or wishes may include selling the same > >>>thing every three years to teh public secotr <g>) > >> > >>Unsure how this fits in. > > > >I mean to distinguish a public sector such as healthcare or > >local government from industry and commercial services. > > > > > >The snide comment could best be left out, but ... > > > >Part of Microsoft's success comes from their providing the > >channel, their partners and resellers, with a steady churn. > >THis keeps the training firms for instance in work on a 3 year > >cycle, paying upstream to be trained themselves, and then > >charging downstream to teach how to do all the same things with > >the new version of MS' office suite or GUI. > > > >(You have to move things around a bit, in ways that might > >otherwise appear not to have any clear reason, to convince > >people there is stuff to teach) > > > >But it is not necessarily so much in the interest of the > >end-user, or the company that employs the end-user. > > > >>>^^^^^^ exploited, seized entered grasped serviced rather than > >>>capitalised (my preference rather than any rule) > >> > >>Mmm Usure this doc must not ever appear to attack! > > > >serviced then, or served. > > > > > > > >The technologies underlying the Internet have arisen and been > >developed in an Open Source fashion. > > > >The internet has become an everyday part of our lives and is now > >an important aspect of business and public life {around the > >globe| throughout the EU and its major trading partners.} > > > >>>^^^ it is a grassroots movement and activity > >> > >>Unclear as to your meaning here. > > > >Politicians like, or pay attention to, grass-roots movements. > >They are different from organised commercial or political > >lobbies, not least in the quality of lunches. > > -- > The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG > Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the > message body to unsubscribe. -- SuSE 8.2 on ECS K7S5A/XP with 1.2GHz Athlon, 384MB RAM, Maxtor 20GB HD and using KDE's Kmail -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.