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Those who are following government initiatives to mandate the use of open standards and/or open source will be aware that Denmark is one of the countries that has been in the legislative forefront. Here's an update of what's new.
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A couple of days ago, John Gotze posted an update at his blog on open standards legislative action in Denmark, which you can find here. The following are a few excerpts to set the stage, and you can also find an English language summary of recent developments here in PDF form, and here in ODF format.
Those who wonder whether Microsoft's efforts to gain formal adoption of Office Open XML as a standard will find the following excerpt of interest:
With regard to standards for exchanging documents between public authorities, the report proposes that “it should be mandatory to use at least one of the document standards Open Document Format or Office OpenXML”, and that it is up to the individual agency to decide what they want. The report explains that a study will be conducted this year with “the purpose of obtaining the necessary experience with these standards before 1 January 2008″.
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