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Is EU changing its view on open standards?

By rmjlsea, on 3 November 2009

According to this piece from Glyn Moody, a leaked version of European Interoperability Framework is now describing openness as something that is a little bit closed compared to what previous version has described.

It appears the definition of openness is shifted more towards a personal and institutional behaviour, leaving the open source software out of the definition. This is quite the opposite of what I am seeing in UK and in medical informatics community. People seem to be demanding open source, even if they are not going to use the source code. Of course, the actual outcomes of this is another topic I’d like to handle in a seperate post, but this leaked report just does not seem to reflect the approach that I am seeing.

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