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Le 29/09/2012 01:03, Thomas Harding a
écrit :
[please forgive my English]
French Prime Minister issued a circular letter in favor of the use
of free software by government
entitled "Guidelines for the use of free software in government",
the short letter from French Prime Minister Jean Marc Ayrault
presents a work from the DISIC (IT direction for government).
Notably:
* They recommends Free Software usage, also Free Software
support by contractors
* They expressly define Free Software as the 4 freedoms defined
by FSF
* They define Free software as *a model of intellectual
property*
* They warns on such Free Software owned by a single company
* They define use cases on forks (see also above point: MySQL,
Open/LibreOffice, ...)
* They recommends to joint software development communities as
an organization more than as individual (some arguments are
specious here: participate, give patches, ..., is OK, but give an
orientation...)
* They strongly recommends mutual development in government
branches
* They recommends to give back to Free Software 5 to 10 percents
of savings compared to a proprietary (fr: privatrice -- is not
used) solution.
* They defined working groups
Ref: PRMX1234912C
<http://legifrance.gouv.fr/initRechTexte.do>http://circulaires.prod.ext.dila.fr/
(paste the document reference in form field -- search "NOR" on
right side)
Yes ! it is really a good news
It is the result of a strong mobilisation of
actors of free software in France.
I finish reading and I translated the main
guidelines...
Mimmo D.DN
For free and sustainable solutions
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