The leading European authority on Microsoft Internet attacked, warning that a government can be trapped for decades in a business program to use as a pattern for its technological systems.
Internet commissioner Neelie Kroes said in his previous post as chief antitrust imposed on Microsoft hundreds of millions of dollars in fines because the company's refusal to disclose certain information to their rivals and by tying its Internet Explorer browser Windows, your operating system.
Now, Kroes said that intends to establish detailed rules to encourage European governments to use other programs, especially those based on open sources that circulate freely among its creators.
"Many authorities are caught unintentionally and for decades in technology and property rights after a while the original choice is so ingrained that nobody pays attention to alternatives," she said.
"It's a waste of public money, a luxury that most public bodies can not be taken," he told a conference organized by Open Forum Europe, a group of companies promoting the programms based on open source, ie specialized user modifiable.Sometimes, but not always, the end of open source programs are delivered to users for unrestricted use. For example, IBM and Oracle charge their customers for some of its programs based on open source codes.
Kroes trying to influence the guidelines applied by governments, which may require all state vendors who use certain types of technology. The effect of this can be huge, to promote programs of a company over others.
This is the case in the departments of Treasury to require the use of a particular browser to submit tax returns via the internet.
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