In this way, standards can protect – or not – the rights of the individual to fully participate in the highly technical environment into which the world is now evolving. Among other rights, standards can guarantee:
* That any citizen can use any product or service, proprietary or open, that she desires when interacting with her government.
* That any citizen can use any product or service when interacting with any other citizen, and to exercise every civil right.
* That any entrepreneur can have equal access to marketplace opportunities at the technical level, independent of the market power of existing incumbents.
* That any person, advantaged or disadvantaged, and anywhere in the world, can have equal access to the Internet and the Web in the most available and inexpensive method possible.
* That any owner of data can have the freedom to create, store, and move that data anywhere, any time, throughout her lifetime, without risk of capture, abandonment or loss due to dependence upon a single vendor.
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When governments commit to procure only software based upon truly open document formats implemented by multiple competing products, that promise tells both proprietary and open source developers that a sufficiently large market will exist to reward the substantial effort required to produce robust and compliant products.
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Such action by governments is entirely consistent with the role of government as demonstrated by past practice.
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Posté par IsNotGood . En réponse à la dépêche Rôle des états et positions dominantes dans le secteur informatique. Évalué à 2.
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Why the OOXML Vote Still Matters: A Proposal to Recognize the Need for "Civil ICT Standards"
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In this way, standards can protect – or not – the rights of the individual to fully participate in the highly technical environment into which the world is now evolving. Among other rights, standards can guarantee:
* That any citizen can use any product or service, proprietary or open, that she desires when interacting with her government.
* That any citizen can use any product or service when interacting with any other citizen, and to exercise every civil right.
* That any entrepreneur can have equal access to marketplace opportunities at the technical level, independent of the market power of existing incumbents.
* That any person, advantaged or disadvantaged, and anywhere in the world, can have equal access to the Internet and the Web in the most available and inexpensive method possible.
* That any owner of data can have the freedom to create, store, and move that data anywhere, any time, throughout her lifetime, without risk of capture, abandonment or loss due to dependence upon a single vendor.
...
When governments commit to procure only software based upon truly open document formats implemented by multiple competing products, that promise tells both proprietary and open source developers that a sufficiently large market will exist to reward the substantial effort required to produce robust and compliant products.
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Such action by governments is entirely consistent with the role of government as demonstrated by past practice.
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It is about fundamental human rights.