Letter to European Commission Warns Against Open Source

An anonymous reader writes "TechWorld is reporting that they have a leaked copy of a letter written to the European Commission detailing the extent of lobby pressure coming from proprietary software groups working against open source software. From the article: 'Lueders sent the letter [PDF] on 10 October to leaders of the Commission's Directorate General for Enterprise and Industry, in response to an EC-commissioned study into the role of open source software in the European economy (referred to by Lueders as Free/Libre/Open Source, or FLOSS). In the letter, he criticised the study as biased and warns that its policy recommendations, if carried out, could derail the European software economy.'"

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I think you mis-read it.

[User 956]

Letter to European Commission Warns Against Open Source

No, no no. It warns against open sores. This is the continent that was decimated by the black plague, remember?

Damaging our ecosystem???

[usurper_ii]

The proprietary software fiasco has led companies to slant their advertising towards telling us to buy more closed-source software to save the environment; Nonsense! According to this scenario, open source software binary digits migrate into the upper atmosphere and destroy the ozone, but proprietary binary digits are heavier than air and cannot get from the ground to the upper atmosphere. This has led scientist to believe that open source software may actually be a danger to our ecosystem.

The funny thing is that if you look at the authors, these people aren't even scientists!

Usurper_ii

You just slashdotted thedailywtf

[toadlife]

I bet the owners of thedailywtf.com are saying "wtf?" right about now.

oss wrecked the software business for everybody

[zitintheass]

new gpl'ed zombies are raised on daily basis now, every other student is now participating encouraged by their school-loser employed leads, but dont forget, MSFT is the leader of the market, some days is even stronger then S&P500 and Nasdaq100, supporting oss you are not undermining other software businesses, but America itself.

Business model

[epee1221]

From the letter:

It must be reiterated that FLOSS is merely a business model for distributing software, just like many other software business models including hybrid and proprietary software

Is that so?
What percentage of the projects on Sourceforge would describe themselves as "businesses"?

Re:Not only that, but you can't print the letter

[Technician]

I printed under various OS's
I looked at its souce security, not set dissallow printing


Offtopic..

I wonder if he sells printers and is looking to boost ink sales by getting everyone to try to print it?

Sorry about the offtopic comment.