[Openstandaarden] Agoria and OSS

[Herman Bruyninckx]

On Tue, 2 Dec 2003, Wouter Vanden Hove wrote:

> Op ma 01-12-2003, om 18:28 schreef Herman Bruyninckx:
> > On Mon, 1 Dec 2003, Henrion Benjamin wrote:
> > 
> > > Can someone go to tomorrow's presentation of Mr Patrick Slaets, Agoria?
> 
> 
> > I have heard his presentation before. It is a quite balanced
> > viewpoint, where Agoria is a big proponent of open standards in IT, and
> > neutral in the choice for or against open source software.
> 
> Maybe, but the same Agoria is very dissatified with the amendments that
> limit software-patentibility. So if they say they are big proponents of
> open standards they contradict themselves.
> 
As with any big organisation, different people speak for the
organisation in different terms, and without the organisation having a
well thought-out vision :-(

Herman

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