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
Many more countries are already there.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opendocument_adoption
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| Contents
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| * 1 United States
| o 1.1 Massachusetts
| + 1.1.1 References
| o 1.2 Other states and organizations in the US
| + 1.2.1 References
| * 2 Europe
| o 2.1 EU Definition of an open standard
| o 2.2 United Kingdom
| + 2.2.1 Bristol City Council
| o 2.3 Belgium
| o 2.4 Finland
| o 2.5 Slovakia
| * 3 Other governments
| o 3.1 Australia
| o 3.2 India
| o 3.3 Japan
| o 3.4 Malaysia
| o 3.5 Peru
| o 3.6 Vietnam
| o 3.7 Other
| * 4 See also
| * 5 References
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Yesterday:
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
Related:
Mandriva Shows Off 3D Linux Graphics, Opens Benelux Unit
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| In a separate announcement, Mandriva also said last week that it has
| established a company in Belgium called Mandriva Benelux that will be the
| sole means of distributing and supporting Mandriva Linux in Belgium, the
| Netherlands, and Luxembourg. The new unit will be able to ink its own OEM
| agreements to get Mandriva Linux distributed in the region, and will work
| with local educational institutions and governments to spur the adoption of
| Linux and open source software in those three countries. Mandriva's various
| Linux distributions are available in 80 languages and in 140 countries
| through a combination of direct and indirect channels.
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http://www.itjungle.com/tlb/tlb090407-story06.html
Ten of the biggest Dutch municipalities say 'enough!' to Microsoft
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| Therefore, the conclusion is, open source in the Netherlands goes
| from the bottom to the top. It might have to do with influence: It
| is far easier for companies like Microsoft to influence/lobby the
| 'one' federal government, than it is to influence about 460
| different municipalities. Slowly and a bit hesitant, but surely -
| and rather unstoppable, open source and open standards are making
| its way in the Dutch government.
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http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/77291/index.html
Large Dutch cities supporting open source
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| Arthur Buijs from the Dutch OpenOffice.org community just pointed me
| to this Dutch article. According to the article, a number of large
| Dutch cities including Almere, Assen, Eindhoven, Enschede,
| Groningen, Haarlem, Leeuwarden and Nijmegen have decided to
| support open source. The article says that the cities are
| interested in open source because Microsoft software is being
| perceived as expensive and the software does not not work well
| together with competitive products on other platforms.
|
| [...]
|
| Here is the full article: A large number of big cities don't want
| to be dependent of Microsoft anymore. Together they have 1.2 million
| inhabitants. They demand open source software from their suppliers.
| Almost all desktops run Microsoft Windows and also have word
| processors and spreadsheets made by the American software giant
| installed. It has been some time that counties - and not only in
| the Netherlands - try to be less dependent of Microsoft. For some
| time there have been very good alternative programs. Some are even
| free of charge. In real life, they are rarely used because
| ict-companies do not support them. Attempts to force them have run
| into problems with European legislation. Eight large Dutch counties
| have now taken the first step by publishing a manifest calling on
| ict-companies to support open source. In fact Almere, Assen,
| Eindhoven, Enschede, Groningen, Haarlem, Leeuwarden and Nijmegen are
| giving a message to these suppliers, saying they don't stand a chance
| getting major orders if they don't comply. Some of these counties
| have already dumped their suppliers for that reason. The software
| of Microsoft - and some other leading (database) companies - is not
| only expensive. Another problem is that their data is not exchangable
| with competitors programs. These software giants also invent new
| standards, forcing their clients to buy new software and convert
| their data to those new standards. Dutch government promotes the
| use of open standards and open source by their Ososs program. A
| spokesman of Ososs says the action of these counties is a true
| breakthrough for open source software.
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http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/large_dutch_cities_supporting_open
Dutch consumer chief puts Apple through the mill
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| The Netherlands has joined Scandinavian led action
| against Apple's digital rights management lock on
| its iPod device and iTunes software.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/25/dutch_out_of_tune_with_apple/
ITC's GIS software ILWIS migrates to open source
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| In order to create better opportunities for the reuse and
| deployment of GIS functionality in a wider community, the
| ITC directorate has recently decided to make current ILWIS
| software free of charge and to migrate it as such to open
| source software under the 52°North initiative.
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http://www.directionsmag.com/press.releases/index.php?duty=Show&id=16352&trv=1
Announcement: MCNLive "VirtualCity" Final
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| Designed to run from a 512 MB USB Flash Drive or from CD this new
| version comes bundled with VirtualBox OSE, an easy to use
| virtualisation software which let you run virtual machines at almost native
| speed. It seems that Mandriva 2007 and VirtualBox are a dream team. Create
| 'Virtual Machines', run existing VM's from your hard disk. Use this Live CD
| (or Live USB) in combination with a USB hard drive, packed with your
| favorite operating systems. The perfect mobile solution. Or just use it to
| discover what this virtualisation is all about.
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http://www.mcnlive.org/
Nonux 4.1 Relased (Dutch)
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| 28-01-2006: De Nonux 4.1 CD is beschikbaar. Deze bevat onder andere een
| nieuwe Linux kernel, nieuwe versies van OpenOffice.org en Firefox en
| vereenvoudigd beheer van draadloze netwerkverbindingen (WiFi).
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http://www.nnlinux.com/
New thin client series runs Linux
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| Acropolis updated its Linux-based thin-client OS earlier this month.
| Its NLX (New LinuX) 5 OS is based on Debian, and is available on an
| IDE flash plug-in module suitable for turning old PCs into modern
| thin clients.
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS2016451866.html
Dutch open source language project gets official certification
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| According to Brouwer, more than 10 Dutch and Belgian volunteers, including
| linguists, harvested words from various sources to create the list. "These
| are people who like to be engaged in language and are supporters of the open
| source software model." In January, the project published a beta version of
| its language files, which got a lot of attention in the Dutch language area.
| The current word list includes more than 140,000 entries.
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http://www.linux.com/feature/116697
Linux STB used in award-winning eldercare product
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| Dutch telecom operator and Internet service provider KPN has
| bestowed an award for innovation on DataBalk's ZorgTV
| ("CareTV" in English) product. The product is based on
| Amino's Linux-based Aminet110 set-top box (pictured at
| left), and aims to help elderly people "stay independent"
| longer, according to DataBalk.
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS9694147567.html
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