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Danish Study Recommends Open Standards for EU

Posted by timothy on from the danish-studies-are-fattening dept.

PDAJames writes "The Danish government has wrapped up a two-year study of open source's potential for the public sector, and has some pretty interesting things to say. For one, it says that tie-ins to proprietary software effectively eliminate competition for government procurement and are inherently bad. For another, it recommends a public sector-led effort to adopt an XML-based standard document format, either that of OpenOffice or a new one developed by the EU. Will they push ahead with these plans or is it just more talk?"

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  1. Why not. just ... by madpierre · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    make graduation from law school a capital crime.

    Punishable by death. No appeal.

    All this litigation is gonna drag humanity back to
    the bloody stone age.

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    siggy played guitar
  2. Re:Well, at least some part of government has brai by BigBadDude · · Score: 0, Offtopic


    It's hard to imagine something smart to come from a fascist country that sent a corvette, snow plows and other winter equipment and a submarine and then killed unarmed innocent Iraki fishermen.

  3. What about Office 2003? But... by thirty2bit · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Microsoft Office 2003 saves documents in XML. It's not quite an open standard, but then again, it's not totally proprietary.

    Then it was just in the media that Steve Ballmer spoke out vehemently against Open Source. (again)

    I'd like to know how the Danish study would factor those two together? In other words, would they consider the overall 'philosophy' of the manufacturer of a certain piece of software when choosing that manufacturer's software?

  4. Re:OpenOffice vs. other office products by Sir+Haxalot · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Read it

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    I have over 70 freaks, do you?