yesss, and I am determined to prove a villain:)) But you have the point: if standards are set exclusively by the government that is dangerous: if Hungary (or the EU) can decide on mandatory Cobol, it will:((
Your argument is that a hq of a major global monopoly organization in your country is a handicap. I say we have our own local monopolies proportionally not less harmful and rooted than yours. E.g. our government, which is collecting cca 40% of our gdp.
A monopoly is a unfair advantage in the marketplace. A standard is an agreed-upon way to do a given thing. If all the players agree on how things will be done -- assuming they can act on those standards -- that *reduces* the likelihood of monopolies occurring, because the playing field is leveled.
Our problem is that all we had was a set of mandatory standards set by exclusively the government (not by a public process), and later we succeeded guarantee by law that these standards will and remain to be open: you can use them free from any restrictions and royalty.
"our organisation managed to put through an ammendment to the electronic public
services law. The strategy was to avoid obvious confrontation, instead of open
standards the phrase "public benefit" was used. unfortunately some important
aspects (like democratic creation and maintainance) were lost in translation.
Anyhow this is a win, that all electronic interfaces to the public utilities
will be freely and gratis accessible even by libre 3rd party tools. huzzah!;)"
It is still a managed by the government but not closed.
I don't know what kind of animal is it: what do you think?
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yesss, and I am determined to prove a villain:)) But you have the point: if standards are set exclusively by the government that is dangerous: if Hungary (or the EU) can decide on mandatory Cobol, it will:((
Your argument is that a hq of a major global monopoly organization in your country is a handicap. I say we have our own local monopolies proportionally not less harmful and rooted than yours. E.g. our government, which is collecting cca 40% of our gdp.
A monopoly is a unfair advantage in the marketplace. A standard is an agreed-upon way to do a given thing. If all the players agree on how things will be done -- assuming they can act on those standards -- that *reduces* the likelihood of monopolies occurring, because the playing field is leveled.
Our problem is that all we had was a set of mandatory standards set by exclusively the government (not by a public process), and later we succeeded guarantee by law that these standards will and remain to be open: you can use them free from any restrictions and royalty. "our organisation managed to put through an ammendment to the electronic public services law. The strategy was to avoid obvious confrontation, instead of open standards the phrase "public benefit" was used. unfortunately some important aspects (like democratic creation and maintainance) were lost in translation. Anyhow this is a win, that all electronic interfaces to the public utilities will be freely and gratis accessible even by libre 3rd party tools. huzzah! ;)"
It is still a managed by the government but not closed.
I don't know what kind of animal is it: what do you think?
You mean we should invent/choose open standards for interfaces and if finished (beta) we should make it mandatory for all EU-countries?
Thanks for the idea. Seems to be interesting. Anybody using it?
We are abound in this kind of monopolies here in Hungary, both global and local:( Still succeeded to push through the amendment:))
Not yet. The original is here, we will publish if translated.
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