[Gloucs] Corruption and subversion.

[Geoff Bagley]

Does any member of this LUG know of any British Euro-MP  who  
understands the world of computers and software,
or is Linux friendly ?

I am somewhat bothered by the number of recent incidents where national 
standards bodies have been over-ruled by
politicians.  In  one European state the previous head of the national 
body was sacked after a visit from an American company.

Mosty sickening of all,  there seems to be an attempt to divide the FOSS 
movement,  and GNOME are to recognise  M$ OOXML.
Perhaps Debian should dump GNOME.  ( Sob -  the G in GNOME means GNU ).

Several LINUX distros are now owned by companies who have entered into 
"patent agreements"  with   M$.

Is there anything we can do ?

Geoff.