NZ Ministry of Justice Open Source Position Paper [PDF]
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| Industry standards may not be open (e.g., Microsoft Word file formats) so
| there are reverse-engineering risks with any OSS dependent upon those
| standards. The MoJ preference for open standards (e.g., Open Document Format,
| which is now supported even by Microsoft) lessens this risk.
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http://nzoss.org.nz/system/files/moj_oss_strategy_1.0.pdf
Ministry of Justice, Open Source discussion paper
http://www.geekzone.co.nz/foobar/4231
There's Holland as well. ODF has Microsoft running scared.
Recent:
Open Document Format gains more support
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| The position of the German Foreign Office, as host of the event, was made
| very clear. The Federal Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, in his
| opening word, called ODF "a completely open and ISO-standardized format",
| considering it an "excellent basis" for "a free exchange of knowledge and
| information in a time of globalization". The Foreign Office has already
| linked its foreign missions in a network using open-source programs and
| shifted to OpenOffice and Linux operation systems on their laptops and has in
| view to extend this program to all diplomatic workstations by the middle of
| 2008.
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http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number5.21/odf-workshop
Germany Police Union Wants GNU/Linux
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| The demand of the police union now is to drop the Microsoft-based software
| and to reconsider the usage of free and open source systems instead.
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http://wolfgang.lonien.de/?p=506
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