[News] Danish Parliament: ODF (OpenDocuemnt Format) Only
Roy Schestowitz
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The Parliament said: ODF only
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| Today the Danish Parliament said ODF only for
| public administration. The Minister of Science
| doesn't agree, so he will ask the Minister of
| Finance for advice. The Government is afraid
| that the decision will be too expensive.
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http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2009/11/parliament-said-odf-only.html
Recent:
DK: Chair of Denmark's standards committee: 'Microsoft is lying'
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| Mogens Kühn Pedersen, chair of the Danish
| Standards Committee, says Microsoft is
| lying when it says it will implement ISO
| OOXML in the next version of its suite of
| office applications.
|
| On Saturday Pedersen accused the software
| vendor of lying, in an article by the
| Danish news site Business.dk, part of the
| newspaper Berlingske Tidene. Pedersen,
| professor of Informatics at the Copenhagen
| Business School, on Monday afternoon
| confirmed his statement: "I realise these
| are blunt remarks to make as chair of the
| committee, but when you advise the
| government you have to tell the truth."
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http://www.osor.eu/news/dk-chair-of-denmarks-standards-committee-microsoft-is-lying
Related:
Denmark: OOXML Vote Won't Affect Public Sector
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| Denmark's public sector will not be affected if Microsoft's latest file
| format is rejected or accepted by the International Organization for
| Standardization (ISO), a government official said Wednesday.
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http://www.cio.com/article/188850/Denmark_OOXML_Vote_Won_t_Affect_Public_Sector
Free Market vs the OOXML
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| Supporting open standards does not equate to supporting standards for which
| ISO said are standards. It means supporting technologies which were designed
| to be fully interoperable, compatible and transparently documented so as to
| be fitting for use by a large number of people without forming a situation of
| lock-in to a particular company. An open standard is a technology whose inner
| workings are completely transparent and whose use does not constitute
| dependance on any particular product or company, and which is commonly used
| in the market.
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http://www.memeverse.com/2008/03/30/free-market-vs-the-ooxml/
OOXML News From Denmark
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| It appears that pressure was put on partners there as well, although
| Microsoft denies that was the intent.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070831002558681
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| Re: In Denmark, Microsoft has 2 out of 4 votes
|
| InzpektorInzpektor 18 Feb 2008, 15:20 BST
|
| The Danish delegation for the BRM will consist of:
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| * IBM
| * Dansk Standard (the national standards body)
| * Microsoft - Themselves!
| * Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Ciber A/S
|
| So, I guess that means that the Danish votes are a tie. (Ofcourse with the
| national standards body being the joker here :-) )
|
| Reference:
| http://www.ds.dk/3537 (In Danish)
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http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-41947/microsoft-s-wikipedia-editor-goes-to-the-brm-to-represent-australia
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