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Hague Declaration to be signed on 21 May in the Hague
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| The Hague Declaration calls on governments to:
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| 1. Procure only information technology that implements free and open
| standards;
| 2. Deliver e-government services based exclusively on free and open
| standards;
| 3. Use only free and open digital standards in their own activities.
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http://www.digistan.org/forum/t-59819/hague-declaration-to-be-signed-on-21-may-in-the-hague
Defining "open standards": The Digital Standards Organization (digistan.org)
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| In my essay "Is OpenDocument an Open Standard? Yes!", I addressed this
| problem of multiple different definitions by finding three widely-used
| definitions (Perens', Krechmer's, and the European Commission's) and merging
| them. After all, if a specification meets all three definitions of "open
| standard", then it's far more likely to be a true open standard. Problem is,
| with all those trees, it's hard to see the forest.
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http://www.dwheeler.com/blog/2008/05/14/#open-standards-digistan
Recent:
MEPs Question Microsoft's Eligibility for Gov't Projects
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| The Commission, which has not responded yet, is allowed a few weeks to reply.
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/144591/meps_question_microsofts_eligibility_for_govt_projects.html
EU: Europarlement testing Ubuntu, OpenOffice and Firefox
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| The European Parliament's IT department is testing the use of GNU/Linux
| distribution Ubuntu, OpenOffice, Firefox and other Open Source applications,
| the British MEP James Nicholson explained last week in a letter to Italian
| MEP Marco Cappato.
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http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/en/document/7565
Is Microsoft Now Banned from EU Contracts?
http://www.computerworlduk.com/toolbox/open-source/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=697&blogid=14
Euro MP thinks Microsoft should be banned from government contracts
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/04/10/member-eu-parliament-asks
Green MEP says Microsoft should be excluded from EU contract awarding procedure
http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/106338/from/rss09
EC probes OOXML standards-setting process
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| A spokesman for the European Commissioner for Competition, Neelie Kroes, told
| The Register that regulators were continuing to scrutinise interoperability
| issues related to Microsoft’s products following complaints from the
| Committee for Interoperable Systems (ECIS) group.
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| As part of that process, the EC formally contacted a number of national
| standards bodies, including the Norwegian Standards Institute (NSI),
| requesting more details about possible irregularities in the OOXML
| standardisation process.
|
| [...]
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| “It must be stressed that it is not the Commission's intention to influence
| the outcome of this process, but the Commission considers it essential to
| ensure that European competition law is not violated in the course of the
| standard setting process,” he said in an email to El Reg.
|
| In January the EC began formal anti-trust probes against Microsoft in two
| cases where it was alleged that the multinational firm had abused its strong
| market position. As part of the investigation into the first case, the
| Commission said that it would scrutinise OOXML on the grounds that the
| specification doesn't work with those of competitors.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/04/ooxml_ec_investigation_iso/
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