Danish Study Recommends Open Standards for EU

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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Not too bright

[Bender Unit 22]

And the prime minister of Denmark are a jerk who likes to kiss Americas ass. I still wonder why he didn't take the advice from Bush and let Turkey join the EU.

I only feel sorry for the soldiers that have to spend years and years cleaning up the mess.

You are a Dane yourself

[Bender Unit 22]

At least that's what you say.

I wondered because I didn't figure that any American can locate Denmark on a map or even knows about the participation in Iraq, implementing the bush doctrine for a better world(tm).