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Norwegian Minister: Proprietary Formats No Longer Acceptable (Tatle)
Tatle
covers an announcement by Morten Andreas Meyer, the Norwegian Minister
of Modernization:
""Proprietary formats will no longer be acceptable in communication between citizens and government."
Taking great care not to mention the name Microsoft directly, but rather referring to "the spreadsheet almost everyone use" or saying this is the last time I will present a plan for information technology being broadcast on the net in Windows Media, the Minister sent strong signals in the direction of Redmond to open up or become irrelevant to the Norwegian Government."
(Thanks to Tres Melton.)
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Norwegian Minister: Proprietary Formats No Longer Acceptable (Tatle) Posted Jun 28, 2005 4:10 UTC (Tue) by mcatkins (subscriber, #4270) [Link] I think this is a momentous announcement, and exactly the rightthing to do, both for OpenSource, but (more importantly!) also for society at large.
Attacking closed formats is exactly the right thing to do - arguing
Everything else will follow! (and I hope that includes other countries too)
Martin
Norwegian Minister: Proprietary Formats No Longer Acceptable (Tatle) Posted Jun 28, 2005 15:35 UTC (Tue) by emkey (guest, #144) [Link] I agree. The formats are the key, and Microsoft understands this as well which is why they work so hard to obscure and obfuscate in this area. Any other course of action would mean competing on a far more level playing field and they didn't get where they are today by doing that.
Norwegian Minister: Proprietary Formats No Longer Acceptable (Tatle) Posted Jun 28, 2005 12:25 UTC (Tue) by danielpf (subscriber, #4723) [Link] It is astonishing that this government seems to work indeed forthe general interest of the nation and its citizens, and not primarily for the interest of private lobbies, if not mafias. Astonishing.
Norwegian Minister: Proprietary Formats No Longer Acceptable (Tatle) Posted Jun 28, 2005 13:34 UTC (Tue) by gbouro (guest, #30593) [Link] I always had a lot of respect for Norwegian society and this reinforces my view. Here's a country that is wealthy enough to be able to "afford" using proprietary formats but chooses not to.
Norwegian Minister: Proprietary Formats No Longer Acceptable (Tatle) Posted Jun 28, 2005 15:30 UTC (Tue) by cpm (guest, #3554) [Link] Perhaps there's a key point there. By choosing not to be enslaved,they remain free. Who would have thought?
Norwegian Minister: Proprietary Formats No Longer Acceptable (Tatle) Posted Jun 29, 2005 14:23 UTC (Wed) by edvac (guest, #13074) [Link] Hallelujah!!!! Thank you. There is sanity in the World.
Norwegian Minister: Proprietary Formats No Longer Acceptable (Tatle) Posted Jun 30, 2005 4:51 UTC (Thu) by bignose (subscriber, #40) [Link] Is it now time for someone to register http://thanknorway.info/ to cheer this excellent step forward in eradicating proprietary dependence from the world?
The other "thank foocountry" sites -- http://thankpoland.info/ http://thankdenmark.info/ -- are about supporting innovation through resisting software patents. How should we thank Norway?
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