EU Calls For Use of Open Standards
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/06/10/193252&from=rss ;
"In a speech that is being reported as taking a swipe at Microsoft, EU
Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes has called for businesses and
governments to use software based on open standards. While not
mentioning Microsoft by name, Ms. Kroes referred to the fact that '[t]he
[European] Commission has never before had to issue two periodic penalty
payments in a competition case' until this befell Microsoft. The things
she told a conference in Brussels will not come as a surprise to
Slashdot readers, but it's encouraging to hear the following quotes from
someone in her position: 'Where interoperability information is
protected as a trade secret, there may be a lot of truth in the saying
that the information is valuable because it is secret, rather than being
secret because it is valuable... we should only standardize when there
are demonstrable benefits, and we should not rush to standardize on a
particular technology too early... I fail to see the interest of
customers in including proprietary technology in standards when there
are no clear and demonstrable benefits over non-proprietary
alternatives.'"
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