July 14th, 2008
Europe seeks to brand open source quality
Call me a Euro-skeptic on this one.
SQO-OSS, a project supported by the European Commission, has released the first version of its quality check program, Alitheia Core.
If you’re looking for a baby name, Alitheia means orange in Celtic or Gaelic. Cute idea if you have a redhead.
The Alitheia Core project itself is open source, and far be it for anyone to look a gift horse in the mouth. But software should have no nationality, nor even a collection of them.
Calling software European, as opposed to American or Burmese, sounds like an effort at exclusion. And a claim that your quasi-nationalistic project is the measure of quality strikes me as a way to set oneself apart.
On the other hand is there really anything different between software having a nationality and being under the control of a corporation?
We report, you decide.
Dana Blankenhorn has been a business journalist for 30 years, a tech freelancer since 1983. You can follow Dana on Twitter. See his full profile and disclosure of his industry affiliations.
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