Danish Study Recommends Open Standards for EU

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Danish Study Recommends Open Standards for EU

Posted by timothy on Sunday October 26, 2003 @07:02AM 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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Fire post by Anonymous Coward · 2003-10-26 07:08 · Score: -1, Offtopic

So I'm sitting here in San Diego, looking out my window at this post-apocalyptic ash-storm we've got going on, and I happened to go outside and look directly at the sun. It's not very bright, about as bright as the moon on a clear night (and it's about that dark out right now), but what weird is, it's BRIGHT RED.
Anyone else read Donaldson's Thomas Covenant books? It's a little too much like the Sunbane under a Desert Sun or a Pestilence to make me happy.
Weird. Good luck to anyone in the area, hope you can keep safe. Same goes to the firefighters. Keep putting the wet stuff on the red stuff, and stay safe.
linsucks.xml by Anonymous Coward · 2003-10-26 07:12 · Score: -1, Offtopic

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1. Re:linsucks.xml by Anonymous Coward · 2003-10-26 07:21 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
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Why not. just ... by madpierre · 2003-10-26 07:21 · 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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Re:Well, at least some part of government has brai by BigBadDude · 2003-10-26 07:23 · 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.
Danish by nfogh · 2003-10-26 07:33 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Ain't that something you eat?

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What about Office 2003? But... by thirty2bit · 2003-10-26 07:51 · 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?
Re:OpenOffice vs. other office products by Sir+Haxalot · 2003-10-26 08:00 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Read it

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So they are advocating against using Java? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-10-26 16:43 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I guess that if the EU is recommending Open Standards for software, that means they will be advocating against using Java, since it is not an open standard.