Castles Declaration of European Independence

Castles Declaration of European Independence

The world monopoly of Microsoft Windows threatens the common good and traditional freedoms of all European nations. Not by a natural monopoly but one created entirely by political agreement. The progress in computer science includes private homes, as well as in the workplace, which are permanently connected or connected frequently to the internet. Microsoft Windows is now a global operating system that now allows "control downloads and updates" to reach into the private homes of European nation states with little possibility to say "no".

The nature of economic business cycles is one that stimulates foreign wars and makes new financial demands on the profitability of domestic economies. The power of such a monopoly in Europe where observance for legal authority is high now permits an abuse of this unnatural monopoly. As the world economic crisis deepens, Microsoft will release "automatic downloads and updates" directly into private homes across the world. In order to finance foreign wars, this monopoly can be used as a powerful global taxation system to subsidise such wars.

Health and education systems are most evolved in Europe as non-profit services. European nations have demonstrated a willingness to exchange faster economic growth for more equitable societies. Access to these health and education systems is increasingly via personal computers. The Windows monopoly is now an integral part of these systems because of the rapid nature of progress in all computing technology. The declaration of European independence states that Europe will protect its borders from invisible foreign taxation levied through the basic operating system that personal computers require.

Now is the moment for Europe to throw off the yoke of the Microsoft Windows system. Developing an effective alternative operating system will demand investments in intellectual capital that the "cultural richness" and diversity of Europe is capable of. The alternative is for every home in Europe to be increasingly taxed by Microsoft over the Internet, enforcing copyright legislation at every "twist and turn". That profiteering from such an unnatural monopoly, piracy of our education and our health system, will hurt Europeans the hardest where respect and observance of the legal systems is highest.

The global economic business cycle is not under control of any one man or any one government. When the general economic future is uncertain, the ability and political willingness of Microsoft to generate new taxes from the homes of European citizens, and not just the workplace, is a certainty. A political priority for Europe is to develop an alternative to Microsoft Windows as part of the futuristic equality of access to our health and education systems. That system should be free for home use but a priced product for business users. European Single Market legislation will allow the installation and deployment of the proposed basic operating system. That is by reform of existing company taxation laws and changes in fiscal policies. The law must only observe the existing differentiations between personal and business taxation in the tradition of government fiscal policy. Establishing in Europe provisions of a "free basic operating system" is inseparable from the similar rights to health services and free basic education.