How to Hijack an EU Open Source Strategy Paper

Her er noen spennede sider som viser hvordan personer/organsasjoner med 
tette bindinger til MS forsøker å påvirke EUs politikk i forhold til 
friprog.

Ingress og intro i CNET sin sak ser slik ut:

<CNet>
/"It's fascinating to see governments around the world embrace open 
source as a way to boost local economies and improve sovereignty. It's 
even better when the policy process itself is laid bare, allowing 
outsiders to see the partisan meddling that goes into a publicly 
articulated policy.

The European Commission is in the midst of preparing a report entitled 
"Toward a European Software Strategy," with a draft released on Tuesday 
to Wikileaks. The draft is fascinating for all that it says about how 
open-source software affects the European software industry, but it's 
equally intriguing for all that some of its editors want it to unsay 
about open-source software"/
</CNet>

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10193433-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad



Filen som finnes på wikileaks er det orginale dokumentet fra EU, men med 
Jonathan Zuck´s redigeringer og kommentarer. Det facinerende med 
dokumentet er at det er basert på EUs orginale dokument, pluss mr Zuck´s 
nedringer, kommentarer og notater.  Linuxjournal skriver en del om dette.


http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/how-hijack-eu-open-source-strategy-paper



Dokumentet og kort beskrivelse finnes her:

https://secure.wikileaks.org/wiki/European_Commission_OSS_Strategy_Draft%2C_Mar_2009





SourceWatch har denne beskrivelsen av  Zuck:

<SourceWatch>
"Jonathan Zuck is President of the Association for Competitive 
Technology and founder of Americans for Technology Leadership. He was 
very active on the software patents directive, taking a position in 
favor of patenting software. ACT seems to be tied to corporate members 
like Microsoft, and Mr Zuck has been visited by Mr Gates in February 
2005. ACT has also taken positions to defend Microsoft against the 
antitrust ruling of the Commission. "
</SourceWatch>



På Wikipedia skrives det følgende om ACT:


<wikipedia>

The Association for Competitive Technology (ACT) is an USA technology 
lobby group. ACT was founded in 1998 in response to the Microsoft 
antitrust case. Its chief goals are

   1. to limit government involvement in technology (such as antitrust 
actions or free software / open source software requirements); and
   2. to support strong intellectual property rights in software.

Currently, ACT is lobbying strongly against the Massachusetts 
endorsement of the OpenDocument standards.

ACT is a member of Americans for Technology Leadership, a larger 
coalition that advocates against government regulation of technology. It 
is sometimes claimed to be a front organization for Microsoft, though it 
has other large, independent members such as eBay, Oracle, Orbitz and 
VeriSign.

On March 9, 2006, the President of ACT, Jonathan Zuck wrote an article 
which was published on news.com, criticising the Free Software 
Foundation's plan to fight Digital Rights Management (DRM) with the new 
version 3.0 of the GNU General Public License[1].

A draft of a European Commission strategy paper on open source software 
with modifications by ACT's Jonathan Zuck was leaked (via Wikileaks) in 
February 2009[2], showing, in the words of Linux Journal, "how lobbyists 
operate in their attempt to neuter threats to their constituencies 
through the shameless evisceration and outright inversion of content."[3]
</wikipedia>

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