![]() No company diminishes the business opportunity for European CSPs even half as much as Amazon does.īenjamin Henrion, who was a key player in the fight against the EU software patents directive, drew my attention via Twitter to a recent event in Brussels where the CEO of a key complainant- Nextcloud-said (via video) that he didn't want to work out a solution when Microsoft contacted him: he prefers to keep fighting. It's paradoxical that a group claiming to promote European digital sovereignty is primarily funded by Amazon, the biggest bully on the cloud services block. ![]() I just emphasized the word "pretends" for a couple of reasons: CISPE has been trying for a while to instigate an EU antitrust investigation against Microsoft, but the latter's new software licensing terms create new opportunities for the very type of company CISPE pretends to speak for: European cloud service providers (CSPs). The primary targets of both CISPE and CFSL are Microsoft and Oracle. nine of the ten principles for software licensing in the cloud that have previously been espoused by Amazon-backed CISPE in the EU. The CFSL was started to advocate in the U.S. The extent of astroturfing by some Big Tech companies is as appalling as it is becoming absurd. ![]() That one was launched only a couple of weeks ago. There are strong indications that some of the same organizations-the ones whose names I just put in bold face-are also involved, in one form or another, with a dubious lobbying entity based in Washington, D.C., named "Coalition for Fair Software Licensing" (CFSL). In the previous post I quoted from the official complaints of three Members of the European Parliament (all of them well-respected experts in technology policy-making) alleging violations of EU transparency rules by Google, Amazon, CCIA (an entity funded by them as well as by others, such as Apple), Meta, and four smaller lobbying fronts. ![]()
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