The Initiative for Software Choice (ISC) is a lobby group founded
[
] in May 2002 in response to widespread international government interest in open source software.
[ The ISC website characterizes its membership as "committed to advancing the concept that multiple competing software markets should be allowed to develop and flourish unimpeded by government preference or mandate".
According to many Free Software advocates such as ]Bruce Perens
Bruce Perens (born around 1958) is an American computer programmer and advocate in the free software movement. He created ''The Open Source Definition'' and published the first formal announcement and manifesto of open source. He co-founded the ...
, Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company, technology conglomerate headquartered in Redmond, Washington. Founded in 1975, the company became influential in the History of personal computers#The ear ...
founded ISC in reaction to the call for the adoption of Free Software
Free software, libre software, libreware sometimes known as freedom-respecting software is computer software distributed open-source license, under terms that allow users to run the software for any purpose as well as to study, change, distribut ...
by politicians in many countries.
External links
Software Choice
Official web site)
MS 'Software Choice' scheme a clever fraud
by Bruce Perens
Bruce Perens (born around 1958) is an American computer programmer and advocate in the free software movement. He created ''The Open Source Definition'' and published the first formal announcement and manifesto of open source. He co-founded the ...
* ZDNet
Microsoft-sponsored lobbyist to the EU: It’s a mistake to floss us
References
Information technology lobbying organizations
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