Die EU entwickelt gerade ihre Open Source Strategie. Bei Wikileaks findet sich ein Dokument, was ein interner Draft sein soll, inklusiver dem Input von Jonathan Zuck, dem Präsidenten der „Association for Competitive Technology“, einer Microsoft-nahen Lobby-Organisation. Es ist ganz interessant, sich das Dokument anzuschauen. Man sieht die Edits, wie überall die Microsoft-Linie in den Text eingefügt wird.
Unklar ist, inwiefern diese Draft-Version die aktuell diskutierte Version in der EU-Debatte ist. Aber für alle, die sich mit Freier Software und Lobbying beschäftigen, bietet das Dokument einen guten Überblick über verwendete Sprache von Microsoft-Lobbyisten, um die Open Source Strategien von Regierungen zu durchwässern und das eigene Monopol zu schützen.
This file is an edited version of the EU OSS Strategy draft with the input of Jonathan Zuck, President of the Association for Competitive Technology, an organisation that has strong ties with Microsoft[1]
The file is a draft for an expert panel formed by the European Commission. This panel is divided into workgroup (IPR, Open Source, digital life, etc.) ACT and Comptia have been infiltrating every workgroup, even the one on Open Source (WG 7). They are doing the best they can to drown any initiative that would not only promote OSS in Europe but also that could help Europe create a sucessful European software sector.
The audience for this document could be journalists who would be interested in getting to know more how lobbies of all kind influence the European institutions. Here it is perhaps even more stringent as ACT is clearly an US organization with ties to Microsoft. Verifications might not be easy as this is an internal draft. The best contact might be commission personnel: Lars.PEDERSEN@ec.europa.eu ; Michel.Lacroix@ec.europa.eu
It has been leaked as it is important to have the public know how actual policy making is being influenced by lobbies that are precisely under the legal scrutiny of the European Commission. The urgency of the publication of this document is real in the sense that outside pressure would foce the Commission to „clean the committees“ or at least give a lesser credit to the work of this workgroup.
Beschäftigt Euch mit dem Papier, verteilt es weiter und schreibt Euren Politikern und der EU-Kommission mit konstruktiver Kritik und bittet letztere um eine Stellungnahme.