European Commission IT chief tackles open source lobby over €189m contract
The European Commission (EC) IT chief has taken the open source lobby to task over a €189m (£158m) deal the EC signed last week, its largest ever software deal.
Francisco Garcia-Moran, director-general of the European Commission's directorate of informatics, refuted a claim made by the president of the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) that the contract had discriminated in favour of proprietary software suppliers.
In a letter sent last week, Garcia-Moran told FSFE president Karsten Gerloff he had been "totally misleading" when he accused the EC of operating in "direct contradiction" of its own rules on the promotion and use of open source software.
The director-general disputed the lobbyist's accusation that the contract had been a bad deal for European taxpayers.
He also denied that the directorate general for informatics had a conflict of interest because it signed multimillion-Euro proprietary software deals while drafting the European Interoperability Framework (EIF), the controversial specification of open standards opposed by proprietary software suppliers. The EIF is due for publication this week.
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