Initiative for Software Choice

The Initiative for Software Choice (ISC) is a lobby group founded^[1] in May 2002 in response to widespread international government interest in open source software.^[1] 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".^[2]

According to many Free Software advocates such as Bruce Perens,^[3] Microsoft founded ISC in reaction to the call for the adoption of Free Software by politicians in many countries.^[4]

The Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA) chairs the Initiative.^{[citation needed]}

External links

• 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