totalitarian regimes are famous for *secret* laws, and *controlled* participation.
How can EU Government act in the mode of totalitarian-regimes /while/ maintaining that human-rights ( including democracy ) & freedom must stand?!??
A linux user. Far from being a second class citizen of the computer world is blessed with the knowledge the Mircosoft is not the be all and end all of the computer world. There are more options.
Pourquoi utiliser un format proprietaire d'une société americaine, lorsque d'autre formats libre existent et fonctionnent tout aussi bien, voir mieux puisque supporté par toute les plateformes?
Le système d'information d'une organisation démocratique ne peut pas rester dépendante du bon vouloir d'un fabricant.
Any democratic system should not be dependant of a monopolistic manufacturer.
Should I understand from this that a Linux user is a second class citizen, only because of his choice of a computer tool?
Dois-je comprendre de cela qu'un utilisateur de Linux est un citoyen de seconde classe, à cause uniquement du choix de ses outils informatiques?
As far as I know software patents being illegal in Europe not only can we use Theora but Xvid and X264 as well. Free codecs and players exists for them on all systems as there are open-source decoders for all of them.
As a public service at least one free (as in beer) solution should be made available to the public. It's the *duty* of the public service to enforce equal (and thus free) access to these contents.
D'un côté, vous luttez contre la position (l'abus) dominante de Microsoft. De l'autre, vous ne faites que favoriser ses produits. Un peu de cohérence et de réelle ouverture, s'il vous plait !!!
As a Linux only user (both at home and work) as well as a citizen in a EU member state (Denmark) it makes me quite sad to be forced to buy an inferiour Operating System (Windows) from a US company in order to be able to view EU council data. That just makes no sense.
Pourquoi Linux ne serait pas légal en Europe alors qu'il est utilisé dans plus en plus d'administration à travers des dizaines de pays, dont des pays européens ? Et que plusieurs tribunaux ont déjà reconnu la légalité de la licence GPL ! (Bien qu'elle ne représente pas a elle seule le monde open source, mais en est le fer de lance)
With Linux being used so widely now in the public sector in Europe, it is incredible that Linux users are being discriminated against by the EU (some of whose own programs are supporting open-source software!). This has to be changed at once.
It's quite ironic that the EU fines MS for leveraging its quasi-monopoly in the OS-market in order to block competition in the multimedia-market but then goes on to create media content which is "optimised for MS-MediaPlayer".
What is even worse is that it claims to be prevented from supporting free alternatives for legal reasons.
Who makes the rules here?
It is a shame that I should buy an american product (which won't run on my computer anyway) to be able to follow the working of my institutions. Please use real standards. Thanks.
Any administration that refuses to provide information using open standards is ultimately hostage to vested interests and loses the right to be called democratic.
I would have imagined a governmental institution would allow free software users to participate to the democracy it's advocating...
It's like using Microsoft Word format when you can use PDF ou plain text !
I'm quite disappointed by the EU...
Je ne possède ni windows, ni MacOS sur ma machine, je suis donc obliger d'utiliser des solutions de contournement qui tombent sous le coup de DADVSI! La majorité des administrations Francaise migre enfin vers le libre, alors, merci d'employer (avec nos impots) les personnes compétentes pour faire des sites qui respectent le libre
