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The Technology Liberation Front
The Technology Liberation Front is the tech policy blog dedicated to keeping politicians' hands off the 'net and everything else related to technology.
Picking up on Bradenâs recent post, âAbuse of Power? Competition Commissioner that Pushes ‘Smart Business Decisions,’â itâs no secret that Europeâs software industry is years behind Microsoft, and not surprising the industry is
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1 year ago
Maybe, just maybe, the truth is that software procurement is a bit more complex than that.
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My views on government interference in the market are pretty consistent across the board. Check out, for example, what I recently said on this site about the Google/Yahoo! arrangement.
If you want to discuss my post on a substantive level, be my guest.
1 year ago
If a European politician comes out for fuel-efficient cars, does that mean we get to hear from GM-backed policy groups?
1 year ago
Making full disclosure of related interests can be substantive, so the requirement of disclosure shouldn't be a surprise, and goes a long way to explaining the sometimes twisted reasoning in some of the TLF posts.
But I don't want to comment any more about that, but concentrate on your statement: "it’s no secret that Europe’s software industry is years behind Microsoft,"
I find it interesting that you use a reference to a specific firm, rather than "U.S. software industry" or less precisely "American software industry", which would also include Red Hat, Novell, Oracle and IBM. Of course, those companies are all free software users and supporters (admittedly to varying extents) This would, of course, undercut the unstated agenda that I believe is part of this post: to frame Nellie Kroes as anti-American, rather than as anti-monopoly, and anti-Microsoft, by equating Microsoft with the U.S. software industry.
In any case you should be explicit about what metrics you use, and since you have chosen Microsoft, I would comment that the quality of the Linux kernel (a multi nation effort, but including many Europeans, including Linus Torvalds) compares very favorably to the quality of the Microsoft Windows operating system.
1 year ago
I am not at all hostile to the open source movement as long as it seeks to compete on the merits and not in the halls of government. Politicians are fine people, but I used to be a lobbyist and I will assert that most politicians have zero understanding of software and are the last people we should entrust with the responsibility of handicapping software products.