Open letter to the Dutch Cartel Office: Investigate software sales practices in
Education
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| The Dutch Cartel Office (NMa) decides annually which sectors of the economy
| will get extra attention. Of course, the NMa is mostly interested in those
| sectors where market distortions have become too big to assure fair
| competition and pricing for consumers and organizations. Without a doubt the
| market for desktop software is highly distorted. For that reason it is
| puzzling that the NMa doesn’t mention the software market in it’s plans for
| 2008.
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http://opensourcelearning.info/blog/?p=607
Related:
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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