European ICT Strategy Make our Software Choice!

Make our Software Choice!

Current situation Europe depends on Oil But why bother?

Europe depends on Oil

Peak Oil

Dependencies – pay a price

Desert Foxholes?

Current situation Europe depends on Oil Europe depends on US software monopolists But why bother?

Europe depends on Oil

Europe depends on US software monopolists

Dependencies Control Money Liberty ACCESS

Control

Money

Liberty

ACCESS

Think about it Control over Software and Communication Standards are the Oil of the Knowledge Society Who controls the plattforms we use? We pay a high price for European failures to defend our freedom

Control over Software and Communication Standards are the Oil of the Knowledge Society

Who controls the plattforms we use?

We pay a high price for European failures to defend our freedom

Dependencies or Democracy US Software monopolists Hire our politicians Take freedom from our SMEs by pushing against interoperability regulations Blackmail our Governments Ignore and insult our competition authorities Endanger National Security

US Software monopolists

Hire our politicians

Take freedom from our SMEs by pushing against interoperability regulations

Blackmail our Governments

Ignore and insult our competition authorities

Endanger National Security

Sovereignty or slavery?

What needs to be done? Identify strategic ICT dependencies of Europe Implement European Free Software Strategies Secure a level playing field: open standards and interoperability Throw all these foreign software lobbyists out!

Identify strategic ICT dependencies of Europe

Implement European Free Software Strategies

Secure a level playing field: open standards and interoperability

Throw all these foreign software lobbyists out!

Software Tea Party? OOXML vs. OpenDocumentFormat Current issue: ISO approval of 'Microsoft Office Open XML' http://fsfeurope.org/documents/msooxml-questions http://www.noooxml.org/petition http://www.robweir.com/blog/ http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/

OOXML vs. OpenDocumentFormat

Current issue: ISO approval of 'Microsoft Office Open XML'

http://fsfeurope.org/documents/msooxml-questions

http://www.noooxml.org/petition

http://www.robweir.com/blog/

http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/

http://www.noOOXML.org Say no to a broken proprietary standard!

Say no to a broken proprietary standard!

Openess matters! Promote openess: open societies, open markets, open standards, open source, open government ... and OpenDocument

Promote openess: open societies, open markets, open standards, open source, open government ... and OpenDocument

But... MS-Office Open XML Democratic Republic of North Korea ECMA Standard

MS-Office Open XML

Democratic Republic of North Korea

ECMA Standard

Open up on us Case: Government of Sweden uses US closed source communication software

Case: Government of Sweden uses US closed source communication software

EU-Investigator Cambell ... Lotus's answer was a system that let NSA easily read foreign users' e-mail, while improving security against other eavesdroppers. To prevent foreign users tampering with the workfactor reduction field, the International Edition of Lotus Notes will refuse to decipher any message which does not contain the correct field.

... Lotus's answer was a system that let NSA easily read foreign users' e-mail, while improving security against other eavesdroppers.

To prevent foreign users tampering with the workfactor reduction field, the International Edition of Lotus Notes will refuse to decipher any message which does not contain the correct field.

Solution Lotus and RSA have removed the ... papers from their web sites.

Lotus and RSA have removed the ... papers from their web sites.

Openess matters Closed Source Software facilitates spying on our Governments and our Businesses Governments and security sensitive areas: FLOSS only Open Standards promote competition

Closed Source Software facilitates spying on our Governments and our Businesses

Governments and security sensitive areas: FLOSS only

Open Standards promote competition

European Software Independence Governments have to act? Yes, but... slow and conventional thinking incompetence and corruption public servants adore power they let it happen WE need to take action

Governments have to act? Yes, but...

slow and conventional thinking

incompetence and corruption

public servants adore power

they let it happen

WE need to take action