[Gllug] Dutch parliament mandates open source

Jason Clifford jason at ukfsn.org
Fri Dec 14 12:57:10 UTC 2007


On Fri, 2007-12-14 at 12:20 +0000, Rob Crowther wrote:
> "The Dutch parliament has approved a plan that will mandate the use of 
> open standards and open source within government organisations. An "open 
> source police" and an open source hotline will enforce compliance with 
> the new rules."[1]

If you read more honest accounts of this you will discover that the 
Dutch are only saying this while at the same time claiming that 
MS "standards" are accepted Open Standards. It's nonsense.

Jason

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