EU Has Backpedaled On The Mandate Of Open Source
7th November 2009
European Commission has watered down the plans to mandate usage of the open standards for the European public services. Instead it will be allowing the use of the open specifications, whereas the patents and also the paid licenses will not be taboo any longer.
A public draft, during the last year, of European Interoperability Framework for the European Public Services that has the version 2.0 underwent the scrutiny from many interest groups. Their response was usually overwhelmingly positive. But a more recent non-public draft that is obtained by the Dutch IT news site Webwereld of IDG has undergone some major changes and does not speak much about open the standards at all.
The latest version of this draft had been sent to all of the E.U. member states for the purpose of revision. Its version 1.0 which was accepted in the year 2004 had demanded the open standards. It had defined three of the main characteristics for an open standard. These three characteristics are that it must be maintained by some public body, it must be free or had to be available for nominal amount of fee, and the patents were only allowed if there was any irrevocable and royalty-free license. The draft for version 2.0 given during the last year is still positioning the open standards as one tool for enabling fair competition and creating a level of playing field.
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