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Subject: Re: [egov-ms] Groups - FLOSS Webinar slides (FLOSS Webinar.pdf)uploaded
Dear John > The slides used by Charles Schulz and John Borras in their recent webinar > on FLOSS (Free, Libre and Open Source Software). > > View Document Details: > http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/document.php?document_id=35591 > > Download Document: > http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/35591/FLOSS%20Webinar.pdf > This is great material. Has the egov effort also considered focussing on open standards? There are still many governments that make reference to (or even specify) standards that are not publicly available. The situation is particularly acute in the U.S. As we know, most standards bodies over the past two decades have shifted to publicly available standards where developers developers can "click and download" any version. Unfortunately, by the way, one of the model documents you cite in your slides in this presentation is ironically not publicly available. ISO/IEC 26300:2006 costs CHF 325 to view! Governments need to demonstrate leadership here. Citing standards that cost hundreds of dollars to view is not a good policy direction as such standards are simply unlikely to be used in today's IT world. Government by emphatically refusing to cite such standards (and certainly not using them) would quickly change the practices of the shrinking number of troglodyte standards bodies still engaging in these practices. --tony
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