Leif, thank you for this detailed report. I have several questions for you: - to me it looks like the situation in France. Do you have a roadmap for the adoption of this resolution? - can I forward this mail to the OASIS ODF Adoption Committee? - Is there anyway that OOo, the ODF Alliance and/or the OASIS ODF Adoption Committee can help you?
Best, Charles. Leif Lodahl a écrit : > Here is a short summary from your local 'war correspondent'. > > Read more on my blog: http://lodahl.blogspot.com/ > > Last summer the parliament (Folketinget) agreed on a resolution (B > 103) proposing that Denmark should use open standard formats in public > governement. This resolution was proposed by the opposition. > > In february the The Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation > revealed the implementation plan for B 103. This plan consist of > several implementations including standard formats for documents. The > plan defines open standards quite close to what we normaly do: > ...that a standard is open implies that: > - the standard must be fully documented and publicly available, > - the standard must be freely implementable without economic, > political or legal constraints on its implementation and use, now or > in the future, and > - the standard should be managed and maintained in an open forum via > an open process (standardization organization). > > But in the implementation plan is given a choice: ODF or Office > OpenXML. It is very important to remember that the resolution was > proposed by the opposition and that the governement actually don't > like it. > > The democratical process in Denmark has given everybody the chance to > answer to this implementation plan. > > Several answers has been given so far: > From a group of NGOs (including DA.OpenOffice.org), OSL (The Danish > Open Source Business Association) known from the famous Ramboell > report and Danish IT-Political Organisation. > > The answers given so far is basicly to two things: > 1) Why do we need two standards ? One is enough > 2) How can Office OpenXML be classified as 'open' when we know that > there are several dependencies indicating that the format is NOT an > open standard. > > The war continues. > > References: > Folketinget Resolution B 103 (unofficial english translation) > http://itpol.dk/sager/offpol/b103_eng/ > Implementation plan (english summary) > http://itst.dk/static/nyhed/English%20summary.pdf > Answer from several NGOs (danish) > http://www.oooforum.dk/viewtopic.php?t=2622 > Answer from OSL (danish) http://www.osl.dk/hoeringssvar_aabne_standarder/ > > Ramboell report (english) http://www.osl.dk/upload-mappe/Ram_engODF/ > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
