Disappointed (so far) by impacts on Free Software of Italian Open Legislation experiment

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 5, 2010

[ Thanks to M.
Fioretti
for this link. ]

“In may 2009 I announced on the P2P Foundation blog
what I believe is the first collaborative law writing experiment in
Italy:

“”Two senators of the Italian Democratic party, Vincenzo Vita
and Luigi Vimercati, have written a law proposal which defends Net
Neutrality and promotes non proprietary formats and software in
public administrations and Universities”

“In May and July 2009 I contributed several changes to the open
wiki specifically set up to discuss and collectively improve the
text of the proposal. A few days ago I read online that that law
proposal had just been formally presented to the Italian Senate.
Unfortunately, when I downloaded that last version I found a couple
of disappointing things in it. What should the purpose of an Open
Internet be?

“The first disappointment comes from something that was already
missing from the first version I had seen on the wiki last
May.”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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