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- From Groklaw:
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| The nine municipalities have sent a letter to Aditro, Tieto, pulse,
| Bluegarden, EDP-Consultant, Sirius IT, EBI-Systems, Logica, IST and Kordab
| with a copy to Mats Östling for Sweden and Regions, SKL. The letter calls on
| the suppliers of business systems to open applications, so they are not so
| hard linked to Microsoft Office. Municipalities are informing their suppliers
| that in future procurement of software and systems they will require more
| transparency and support for both pdf and odf, the supported file formats in
| OpenOffice. [Translation by Google, edited lightly by PJ.] -
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http://www.idg.se/2.1085/1.214952/kommuner-rasar-mot-microsoftlasning
Recent:
Red Hat scores Swedish pharmacy contract
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| Apoteket, the pharmacy network, will convert to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
| running on Intel hardware, Red Hat said. Financial terms of the deal were not
| disclosed.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/bizj/070918/1522057.html?.v=1
Open source tour of Europe: Sweden
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| Other state projects include Apoteket Sweden’s largest state-owned pharmacy
| chain, which migrated to Red Hat Enterprise Linux at 900 pharmacies as part
| of a move to Intel hardware, and the Swedish Armed Forces’ deal with Red Hat
| to enable migrations from Windows NT to Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
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http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2008/06/19/open-source-tour-of-europe-sweden/
ODF approved as Swedish Standard
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| Without making a press release or public announcement the Swedish Standards
| Institute has formally approved ODF 1.0 as a national standard. Only the “SS”
| prefix in SS-ISO/IEC 26300:2008 give away the status of the document.
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http://www.peterkrantz.com/2008/odf-approved-as-swedish-standard/
Sweden: ODF made national standard
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| The Swedish Standards Institute (SIS) approved the Open Document Format (ODF)
| as a national standard, the ODF Alliance reported this week.
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| "Sweden now joins Brazil, Croatia, Italy, South Korea, and South Africa as
| countries whose national standards bodies have formal approved this
| standard", the ODF advocacy organisation writes in this week's newsletter.
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http://www.metamorphosis.org.mk/content/view/1247/4/lang,en
Related:
Microsoft admits Swedish employee promised incentives for Open XML support
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| Microsoft Corp. admitted Wednesday that an employee at its Swedish subsidiary
| offered monetary compensation to partners for voting in favor of the Office
| Open XML document format's approval as an ISO standard.
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9033701
Is there a correlation between Socialism and Free Software ?
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| And as far as Sweden is concerned, it is ranked as the 4th least corrupt
| nation in the world. A clue that it's people lead contented lives. And Sweden
| enjoys an ultra low unemployment rate of around 4% which is the least in the
| European Union.
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http://linuxhelp.blogspot.com/2007/10/is-there-correlation-between-socialism.html
A Virtual Open Source Center to Nordic Countries
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| The initiative was confirmed during the Norwegian IT-minister Heidi
| Grande Roys' visit in Finland. The leader of COSS, Petri Rasanen,
| stated that the steady operation of COSS is a good base to build
| the international collaboration on, and for example the web site
| of the new center will be based on the COSS portal.
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http://www.swbusiness.fi/portal/news/news_from_software_business_cluster/other_news/?id=18528
Microsoft managed to buy the vote of Sweden in ISO?
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| When a friend of mine arrived, it was clear that it all was stuffing going on
| from Microsoft side. All Microsoft partners in Sweden was at that meeting.
| People against OOXML got an offer to leave the meeting without paying the fee
| (not becoming a member). Everyone left, including IBM that thought it all was
| a farse.
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http://stupid.domain.name/node/382
The Swedish OOXML vote has been declared invalid!
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| The swedish working group at SIS, Swedish Standards Institute, Document
| description languages SIS/TK 321/AG 17, decided in a vote on August 27, 2007,
| to vote yes to making Office Open XML an ISO standard. Today, the board of
| SIS decided to invalidate the vote.
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http://www.os2world.com/content/view/14874/2/
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