The Initiative for Software Choice (ISC) is a lobby group founded<ref name=high>Template:Cite news </ref> in May 2002 in response to widespread international government interest in open source software.<ref name=high/> 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".<ref> {{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }} </ref>
According to many Free Software advocates such as Bruce Perens,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Microsoft founded ISC in reaction to the call for the adoption of Free Software by politicians in many countries.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
The Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA) chairs the Initiative.Template:Citation needed
External linksEdit
- Software Choice(Official web site)
- MS 'Software Choice' scheme a clever fraud, by Bruce Perens
- ZDNet: Microsoft-sponsored lobbyist to the EU: It’s a mistake to floss us