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Leaked Letter — BSA Pressures Europe To Kill Open Standards

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday October 17, 2010 @12:15AM from the open-and-shut-investigation dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Business Software Alliance is trying to kill open standards. Free Software Foundation Europe has gotten hold of a letter in which the BSA tries to bully the European Commission into removing the last traces of support for open standards from its IT recommendations to the public sector. FSFE published the BSA's letter (PDF), and picked apart its arguments one by one."

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Re:Seems pretty simple to me by Macthorpe · 2010-10-17 00:30 · Score: 5, Funny

Don't start being reasonable about it... You'll spoil everyone else's fun.

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"It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him." - Tolkien
Re:Repugnant by neumayr · 2010-10-17 00:38 · Score: 3, Funny

Yeah, curse those cellphone makers and their weird plugs! They'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes!

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion. -Francis Bacon
Re:Concern Troll is a Troll by lordholm · 2010-10-17 04:02 · Score: 2, Funny

Ignore the troll Florian, you are doing a great job. I salute you!

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BSA vs Tolkien version of The Hobbit by gmuslera · 2010-10-17 05:33 · Score: 2, Funny

In BSA version, Bilbo get in thru the main door, and handles the dragon a letter where he demand all the gold, and that the dragon tie itself and follow all his orders, no magic involved.