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
Microsoft loses South America and Europe first, as some have predicted.
Earlier this year:
Linux reaches the Italian Parliament
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| As reported by the Italian newspaper Repubblica on July 10th, 2007, a plan
| suggested by the left deputies Pietro Folena and Franco Grillini to migrate
| all the computers of the Parliament from Windows to Linux was approved by the
| Chamber.
|
| The migration will affect about 3500 boxes of the Chamber, both desktops and
| servers, and each Deputy/Party may also ask to migrate his/its (private)
| computers to the Free System.
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http://3v1n0.tuxfamily.org/blog/linux-docs/italian-parliament-moves-to-linux/
The French Parliament switches to Ubuntu
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| The French Parliament looks to be the next big Ubuntu switcher according to
| reports. Recently the Parliament produced an official government report
| that recommended the use of free software over proprietary software. The
| switch to free software is expected to provide a substantial savings to the
| tax-payers according to the government study.
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http://fridge.ubuntu.com/node/814
Socialist Party Netherlands wants to abolish Windows monopoly
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| She asked the minister of state if he is prepared to ask the Dutch Rivalry
| Authority NMa (Institution that controls economical abuse, competition etc.)
| to research if Microsoft is in an illegal monopoly position at the moment.
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http://mckooiker.byethost5.com/blog/?p=47
Dutch Consumer Association declares war on Vista
http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2007/10/13/dutch_consumer_association_declares_war/
Open source test successful
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| 28 September 2007 - A test with open source software has been successful and
| there are no technical impediments to introducing such software in the entire
| municipal organisation, Amsterdam announced this week at a meeting organised
| by the Ministry of the Interior.
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http://www.nieuwsuitamsterdam.nl/English/2007/09/open_source_success.htm
Dutch political party's youth department switching to open source software
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| DWARS, the youth department of Dutch political party GroenLinks, wants open
| source software to be the standard for computers and internet.
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http://digg.com/linux_unix/Dutch_politcal_party_s_youth_department_switching_to_open_source_software
Decision on open source in December
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| If the outcome is positive, 10,000 municipality employees will change to open
| source software.
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http://www.nieuwsuitamsterdam.nl/English/2007/09/open_source.htm
Netherlands Picks ODF
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| Frank Heemskerk, Minister of Economic Affairs, announced today that ODF will
| be the standard for reading, publishing and the exchange of information for
| all governmental organisations. The deadline is January 2009.
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http://gotze.eu/2007/09/netherlands-picks-odf.html
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