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Åbne standarder

Introduktion

Der er en tæt forbindelse mellem netværkseffekten og relevansen af åbne standarder, og disse er således steget kraftigt i takt med hinanden. Udbydere af proprietær software har større gevinst ved at udnytte situationen, og derved stiger omkostningerne for brugerne.

Regeringer, almennyttige NGOer, i særdeleshed grupper der bekymrer sig om konkurrencefrihed og forbrugerrettigheder er som regel stærke fortalere for åbne standarder. Blandt kritikerne er typisk udbydere af proprietær software og de som repræsenterer deres interesser. Et af punkterne som fremhæves af kritikerne er den grundlæggende konflikt mellem innovation og standardisering.

Med standardisering sætter man bevidst grænser for ændringer af en given teknologisk base, også innovation af denne. Disse begrænsninger sættes for at innovation kan skabes ikke bare af den part som kontrollerer den teknologiske base, men af alle som har adgang til standarden. Således begrænser standarder en enkelt aktørs mulighed for at innovere for at fordre innovation blandt mange parter på basis af standarden.

Åbne standarder lader alle parter bidrage med innovation, uden at den oprindelige udvikler af en given platform kan gøre deres indflydelse gældende for at begrænse denne, eller konkurrencen som den repræsenterer.

Blandt FSFEs mål er frihed fra binding til leverandører og frihed til innovation og konkurrence blandt alle. Derfor er FSFE en stærk fortaler for åbne standarder.

Udgivelser

• Open Letter on Document Freedom Day 2014 to Giancarlo Vilella, Director of the European Parliament's DG ITEC and Chair of the Inter-Institutional Committee for Informatics by Karsten Gerloff
• FSFE's submission to the UK Open Standards Consultation 2012, held by the Cabinet Office.
• "Defending Open Standards: FSFE refutes BSA's false claims to European Commission"
  by Karsten Gerloff, Carlo Piana and Sam Tuke
• "EIFv2: Tracking the loss of interoperability"
  by Karsten Gerloff and Hugo Roy
• "Analysis on balance: Standardisation and Patents"
  by Georg Greve
• "The minimal principle: because being an open standard is not enough"
  by Bernhard Reiter
• "Why FRAND is bad for Free Software"

Udgivelser ved IGF

• "Sovereign Software: Open Standards, Free Software, and the Internet"
  FSFE contribution to the first IGF, by Georg Greve

Udgivelser vedrørende MS-OOXML

• Six questions to national standardisation bodies
• FSFE Context Briefing: "Interoperability woes with MS-OOXML"
• FSFE Context Briefing: "DIS-29500: Deprecated before use?"
• Article on Groklaw: Novell's "Danaergeschenk"
• Article on BBC: "Questions for Microsoft on open formats"
• Article on Heise.de: "The converter hoax"

Relaterede nyheder

Expert Brochure to Modernise Public Digital Infrastructure with Public Code - Translated Versions Online

10 March 2020

What is Free Software? How does it contribute to digital sovereignty, security and transparency of state digital infrastructure? Which steps can public administrations take? These and more questions are answered in our publication "Public Money Public Code – Modernising Public Infrastructure with Free Software". After the successful release of the English version of our brochure we translated it into three more languages: German, Czech and Brazilian Portuguese.  

Security scandal around WhatsApp shows the need for decentralised messengers and digital sovereignty

28 February 2020

The recent security scandal around WhatsApp and access to the content of private groups shows that there is an urgent need for action with regard to secure communication. 

FSFE Italy asks political parties about their positions on Free Software

19 February 2018

In light of the upcoming elections in Italy on March 4th, the FSFE country team Italy sent out multiple questions to the participating parties to challenge them on their position about Free Software in public administration and education. We will publish and analyse their answers once we receive them. 

European Free Software Policy Meeting 2018: more joint activities important for Free Software in Europe

15 February 2018

Following the well-established tradition of gathering active Free Software groups before FOSDEM kicks off, the FSFE once again partnered up with OpenForum Europe for the third edition of European Free Software Policy Meeting in Brussels, the heart of European decision-making. 

32 European ministers call for more Free Software in governmental infrastructure

09 November 2017

On 6 October, 32 European Ministers in charge of eGovernment policy signed the Tallinn Declaration on eGovernment that calls for more collaboration, interoperable solutions, and sharing of good practices throughout public administrations and across borders. Amongst other things, the EU ministers recognised the need to make more use of Free Software solutions and Open Standards when (re)building governmental digital systems with EU funds. 

All related news and events

Eksterne links af interesse

• Document Freedom Day
• ODF Alliance
• PDFreaders.org
• Play Ogg!
• "Open Documents and Democracy" by Laura de Nardis and Eric Tam, Yale Information Society Project
• "An Economic Basis for Open Standards" by Rishab A. Ghosh
• "An emerging understanding of Open Standards" by Georg Greve