Our socialist and left wing governments and opposition parties are, in the main, capitalist by nature and support free market economics: they wouldn’t get in the EU if they didn’t. I’d also like to educate our very ignorant Mr Byron about Left Wing politics in Europe: there isn’t much of the kind he seems to imagine. So how would I fit in with Byron’s analysis I wonder? And neither do the Conservative Party who are quite vocal in their support for Open Source software unlike our current Labour (left wing) government. Blimey, I must say, having read the Digistan Mission and the Hague Declaration I didn’t see any of those conspiratorial links at all! Just for the record I’m a Tory (Conservative, Capitalist) voter and supporter of free and open source software and open standards. Dennis now draws what must be one of the world’s largest generalisations by tying all groups who support freedom and Openness to just 24 people and somehow manages to ink in George Soros and Left Wing (Socialist by inference) politics. The vast left-wing conspiracy of George Soros works around the edges of their mostly web-site-only organizations… How you get from Digital Standards to Fascist Terrorists is really just too much for my simple mind to comprehend.Īll of these front groups percolate around about two dozen individuals, mostly European. Where the f*** did that come from? Stan means “place of” or “land” for pete’s sake. Unbelievably it calls itself Digistan, apparently to identify with the fascist terrorists based in countries and regions using the Farsi-based suffix “stan.†The propagandists, partially funded by publicly traded companies, have a little trouble describing what that term “free and open standards†means (or even using it consistently), but the group has no trouble indicating its political stripes. Let’s start with the opening paragraph shall we? (highlight mine)Īnother anti-Microsoft (MSFT) front group has emerged in favour of “free and open standards,†hyping what it calls the Hague Declaration and making some absurd connection to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. To make the comments he does shows such ignorance that it quite beggars belief… To be frank, he must be either very stupid, or on the payroll of a large software company the world’s largest convicted monopolist. I first came across the group via a post on Glyn Moody’s blog the other day which in turn led me to this piece written by a chap who calls himself Dennis Byron (I can only assume that he has no relation to the famous poet). The Digital Standards Organization (Digistan) seeks to promote customer choice, vendor competition, and overall growth in the global digital economy through the understanding, development, and adoption of free and open digital standards (“open standards”). Please welcome a new foundation to aid the cause of freedom and open standards: Digistan. If you think that Open Standards are important (and you SHOULD if you are reading this!) then what are you waiting for? Click here and register your opinion. Mark Taylor ( Open Source Consortium), Chris Puttick (CIO for Oxford Archaeology), Glyn Moody (Journalist and Open Source Commentator: ), and Ian Lynch (of INGOTS fame). There are some particularly interesting names already on the list of signatories: That sounds like a fine idea to me! It would save the country literally hundreds of millions of pounds just for starters. (3) Use only free and open digital standards in their own activities.Īs adopted and proclaimed by the founders of the Digital Standards Organization in The Hague on. (2) Deliver e-government services based exclusively on free and open standards (1) Procure only information technology that implements free and open standards Do you remember that total Jerk Dennis Byron? The chap who thought that Digistan was some sort of terrorist organisation? Well here’s a rather nicely ironic way to shove his ignorant and frankly stupid views in that familiar place where “the sun doesn’t shine”.Ī fellow colleague on the blogosphere, Russell Ossendryver, sent me an email linking to a recent on-line petition instigated by John McCreesh (of ) on 10 Downing Street’s petition engine.īasically it calls for the UK Government to:
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