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Open source tour of Europe: Greece
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| There are isolated examples of public open source adoption projects, such as
| Heraklion on the island of Crete expressing a preference for open source
| software for its e-Government portal, Athens using Linux, Apache and PHP, and
| Toperos Xanthis using Linux and Joomla.
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http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2008/06/16/open-source-tour-of-europe-greece/
ODF Alliance and European Commission close ranks against Microsoft on open
document standards
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| The commissioner for competition policy warned against the harmful effect of
| government lock-ins to proprietary software, in a thinly veiled attack on
| Microsoft's Office productivity suite.
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| Kroes said, "As purchasers, we need to be smart when we buy technology. We
| need to be aware of the long-term costs of lock-in: you are often locked-in
| to subsequent generations of that technology.
|
| [...]
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| "ODF, with its status as the only internationally recognised open standard
| document format with a wide range of supporting applications, is a critical
| tool for governments to help end the era of lock-in."
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http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2008/06/16/231075/odf-alliance-and-european-commission-close-ranks-against-microsoft-on-open-document.htm
http://tinyurl.com/6dh34y
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Hot stuffin' in Greece?
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| After the voting of the Greek HoD you may ask why the votes were 14 in total,
| when the organisations appointed to the committee are just 12. That's only
| the latest of the magical wonders around OpenXML.
|
| [...]
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| New voting members are joining the committee at the last minute:
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| However, during the discussion, the representative of the Information
| Society showed the fax he had received, to which was attached the
| decision 19103/08 of the ELOT administration, dated 1 February 2008,
| which modifies the composition of the Committee by adding four new
| organisations: the Ministry of Education, two departments of the Ministry
| of Economics, and Information Society S.A. The representatives of NTUA
| had not been informed of this decision.
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http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-42845/hot-stuffin-in-greece
Greece sell-out Proposal
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| Microsoft Hellas proposes a contract that will take over control of the
| sovereign European state. Greece would lose the right to speak about other
| products its government uses and gain the right to support the business
| interests of the vendor and its policy goals.
|
| [...]
|
| Nice proposal, Microsoft will help Greece to spy on its ICT infrastructure in
| order to weaken the procurement power of Greece for the benefit of the
| supplier. Win-Win, right?
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http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-35281/greece-sell-out-proposal
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