CompTIA, "Software Choice", Patents and Competition

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!CompTIA is a lobby group of US origin that represents some big IT firms (IBM, HP, MS), and seems to be mainly driven by Microsoft. !CompTIA has repeatedly claimed that software patents are good for small companies.

• CompTIA board of directors

In Europe, !CompTIA is headed by Hugo Lueders, an experienced German-Belgian organiser and EU lobbyist who has to some extent been successful in putting himself at the head of various organisational platforms that help European !SMEs get access to EU funding.

Overview of recent CompTIA actions:

• Initiative for Software Choice: action against Free Software in the government administration.

• Letter to Financial Times supporting the council's "political agreement". See also the reaction on NoSoftwarePatents

• Unhappy about EC's definition that truly "Open Standards" must be freely re-implementable

• Oppose EU antitrust measures to rein in Microsoft practices (Amicus party in court)

• Oppose US antitrust measures to rein in Microsoft practices (Amicus party in court)

• Comment on UN Open Standards Draft Primer

Summary

I {heart} my monopolist, right or wrong...