Hooray. Finally some positive news about the dutch government: it has decided that open standards and open source software should be used. Using propriety software and formats is still allowed but has to be justified. I never understood why people allow their documents to be stored in some propriety format. It’s my data so I should have unlimited access to it.

It’s a good thing the government made this decision. It really don’t understand why large corporations still use propriety, closed software. Isn’t it weird that the your information required to do business is stored in a format that you don’t have access to except by using a specific piece of software? Doesn’t it feel like your information is being held for ransom? “Buy the license or your data is gone”.

The deadline on using the open document format is set on April 2008 for state government organization. The local government organizations have a deadline of 2009.

Here’s some stuff to read.

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