Support the Software Rose Campaign
Where do we want to go today? To the Brussels Tea Party! Don't forget to take the @-,-'— with you!
It is time for our governments to act. Public institutions should not force citizens into software dependencies and pay the Bill.
We are concerned that a foreign software monopolist
- hires former senior politicians
- puts pressure on sovereign governments and interferes into domestic policy making
- deceives domestic policy makers by setting up astroturf campaigns and corrupting professional terms as 'open standards'
- ignores and insults our competent competition authorities
- promotes anti-competitive softpatent laws
- taxes users of its broken monopoly software
- endangers our national security
We demand that our Governments
- only use Free and Open Source Software1
- strengthen antitrust measures and institutions
- improve interoperability enforcement and open standards adherence
- promote the use and development of Linux and free software2
- finance the development of key FLOSS projects as to
- enable IT-Independence and choice
- secure free and competitive markets
- build up a credible threat of force to ensure antitrust compliance
- improve monopoly software procurement conditions
- ban monopolist puppets from entering public ICT Committees and standard bodies
- monitor the activities of foreign sock puppets by the national services
