Re: How Spanish administrations reuse software

2018-06-21 Thread Carsten Agger
Hi Erik A suggestion, someone to talk to could be Rasmus Frey from the Danish OS2 collaboration, https://os2.eu/node/332 That's a cooperation between Danish municipalities to build and share freely-licensed and publicly available products to replace proprietary ones, but also just as a way

Input on anticompetitive characteristic of public code

2018-06-21 Thread Erik Albers
Hi all, currently we are working on a brochure for our Public Money? Public Code! campaign, that we like to use as a help for politicians and decision-takers. The brochure shall help to clarify common misunderstandings about Free Software, show positive use-cases and of course the multiple benefit

Re: Input on anticompetitive characteristic of public code

2018-06-21 Thread Stephane Ascoet
Le 21/06/2018 à 14:33, Erik Albers a écrit : * How can we oppose the argument that publicly financed software released as Free Software is anticompetitive? Hi, I prefer a colaborative world to a competive one. At some point, defending alternatives such as free software in such a sucking societ

Re: Input on anticompetitive characteristic of public code

2018-06-21 Thread Paul Boddie
On Thursday 21. June 2018 14.33.21 Erik Albers wrote: > > One of these pages shall be dedicated to the topic "market distortion / > anticompetition". The point is that a main argument against publishing > publicly financed software developments under a free licence is said to be > "market distorti

Re: Input on anticompetitive characteristic of public code

2018-06-21 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) - lists
On 21/06/2018 14:33, Erik Albers wrote: Hi all, currently we are working on a brochure for our Public Money? Public Code! campaign, that we like to use as a help for politicians and decision-takers. The brochure shall help to clarify common misunderstandings about Free Software, show positive

Re: Input on anticompetitive characteristic of public code

2018-06-21 Thread Cryptie
Hi, Le 21-06-2018 14:33, Erik Albers a écrit : Now my questions: * How can we oppose the argument that publicly financed software released as Free Software is anticompetitive? * What can we bring up on the other hand in favor of publishing as Free Software from a competitive po

Re: Input on anticompetitive characteristic of public code

2018-06-21 Thread Carsten Agger
On 06/21/2018 02:33 PM, Erik Albers wrote: * How can we oppose the argument that publicly financed software released as Free Software is anticompetitive? ' From a Danish perspective, the notion of free software as anticompetitive is completely ridiculous. The Danish public IT infrastructure

Re: Input on anticompetitive characteristic of public code

2018-06-21 Thread Bastien
Hi Erik, > Now my questions: > * How can we oppose the argument that publicly financed software released as > Free Software is anticompetitive? I've found the following argument to be somehow convincing. How do you know that a SaaS (Software as a Service) is not a free software? Well, you proba

Re: Input on anticompetitive characteristic of public code

2018-06-21 Thread Alessandro Rubini
Thanks Cryptie (and Carsten) for the reply. >> * What can we bring up on the other hand in favor of publishing as Free >>Software from a competitive point of view? > They are asking to assure that people pay multiple times for the same > work. > This is not a question of competition but of g