No RAND in OASIS-blessed standards!

I have sent a mail to the people opposing the RAND patent policy in OASIS, to express my support to their cause, a while ago (when I saw John Goerzen's mail on debian-devel). I hope everyone in the FLOSS community does the same thing.

The PICTS (Permanent ICT Steering group) of the Belgian Federal Government did do so too. This makes me very happy, and proud to be a Belgian.

That mail, however, contains another important message, which is new to me as well: apparently, our government is about to recommend that communication be implemented using open standards (making it mandatory a while later), and to suggest doing this using FLOSS.

And I thought I'd never see the day.