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Re: [Fsfe-uk] portugal and free software |
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Hi Alex
Alex Hudson wrote:
Graham,
On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 23:52 +0100, Graham Seaman wrote:
*Hi all,
(what are all the asterisks about? :)
Dunno- I cut and pasted html (the translated text is on my open.egov
site) into thunderbird, told
it to send as plain text, and it splattered asterisks everywhere... It
was actually from windows,
which I don't know my way round on very well, so I may have some
settings wrong
somewhere.
The Portuguese Parliament just passed this (it's advisory to the
government, not law) - it was proposed by the Communist Party but got
support from all parties, including Socialists and both Conservative
parties.
It looks very good.
In some ways it looks way better than what's happening here, in others
they are a bit behind -
for example, the pilot projects at council level kind of map to APLAWs
and related things here.
What we should be pressing for now is not setting up the pilots, but for
the outcomes to be
opensourced. For example, the protocols the pilots developed for data
exchange are as far as
I know not released publicly, so the little clutch of proprietary firms
that know about them get
to keep their monopoly. But then I'm not in that process and may be
talking rubbish - this is mostly
surmise.
Would you be able to compare their process to our
Parliament somehow? For example, is the passing of this motion like the
conclusion of a debate? It's something we should consider trying to
press over here in many ways, I think.
No, I don't know how the process works. I can give you more links
(discussion on the Communist party's forums, discussion on the ANSOL (==
AFFS in Portugal) list, supporting speeches by various MPs etc, if
anyone wants, but they're all in Portuguese. And that was quite enough
translating
for one week already.
Cheers
Graham
Cheers,
Alex.
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