[Flug] Software libero e WTO (fwd)

[Gianni Comoretto]

Ricevo e giro

Gianni Comoretto      			Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri 
gcomoretto@arcetri.astro.it		Largo E. Fermi 5 
http://www.arcetri.astro.it/~comore	50125 Firenze - ITALY

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Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 09:34:09 +0100
From: Paolo Mascellani <paolo@elabor.homelinux.org>

Oltre alla questione dei brevetti software, che da sola basterebbe a 
voler radiare dalla comunita` civile alcune delle maggiori 
multinazionali del software, si aggiunge anche quest'altra storia di cui 
allego una notizia (immagino che l'inglese non vi causi troppi problemi 
- in caso ditemelo che la traduco).

Vi informo infine, se gia` non lo sapete, che a Padova si terra` un 
importante convegno sul software libero (http://www.floss2005.org), al 
quale vi prego di prestare almeno un po' di attenzione.

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(visto sulla lista dei coordinatori di Hipatia, giusto per citare
tutte le fonti)

Calling for the real bosses

In order to stop governments from adopting free software systems, the
computer industry appeals to the WTO, arguing that Brazilian, Venezuelan
and Chinese policies are discriminatory. And they ask for measures

Rafael Evangelista

Pressure against  free software will now  come from  higher instances,
precisely from  the World  Trade  Organization (WTO). After  trying to
scare the Brazilian government off by suing Sérgio Amadeu, head of the
National Information Technology Institute (IIT), the software industry
has now  decided to  go further  and  call the  bosses.   CompTIA (the
software    industry association),  answering   to  the   consultation
conducted by US commercial representatives,  has complained that  some
countries are adopting a  discriminatory attitude towards US companies
when purchasing for  the government. The  last drop seems to have been
the recent announcement made by the Venezuelan government stating that
they will give preference to free software when equipping their public
administration's computer systems.

In   a  complaint letter    addressed to  representatives   of the  US
government, the  software  industry  claim that  "Several  governments
including  China, Brazil,  India  and   Russia  are limiting  or   are
threatening  to limit  the  access    of US  IT   companies to   their
procurement systems. The loss  of access to the government procurement
markets would be devastating to US interests in these markets."

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