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Something IS Rotten in the State of Denmark

May

2007

Leif Lohdal is blogging much more continuously about the Danish open standards situation than I am. Time for me to catch up. On 24 April, the Danish Open Source Business Association and the Danish IT Industry Association arranged a conference in Parliament, from which I reported (in Danish, like most of the following links) over at Version2. Peter Strickx made a good presentation (soundtrack) about the situation in Belgium. On the same day, Prosa and Version2 arranged a debate meeting about document standards. They had ...

Hiser in Danish, and now in English

Mar

2007

I wrote a Danish article in Version2 published yesterday. Here is my translation: Danish Document Controversy Raises International Concerns OpenDocument Foudation is very concerned about the development in Denmark. Moreover, the organisation is readying a plugin that will make it even easier to use the ODF-format. John GÃ¸tze The awareness of the political initiatives around the usage of open standards reaches beyond Denmark. “Denmark needs a winning attitude, but this policy is appeasement”, comments Sam Hiser, Director of Business Affairs in OpenDocument Foundation, an organization ...

Mandatory Open Standards in Denmark 2

Feb

2007

I’d be interested in the international reactions to this piece of news: On Friday, the Danish Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation, Helge Sander, made a press announcement (Danish) about his plan for following up on the Parliament Resolution 8 months ago. The implementation plan is presented in a report which suggests that “open standards should be implemented gradually by making it mandatory for the public sector to use a number of open standards when this becomes technically feasible”. The report identifies an initial sets ...

On the radio: Sutor, Munk and GÃ¸tze

Feb

2007

During Bob Sutor’s visit in Copenhagen (I posted the homemade video with Bob Sutor the other day), I had organised for him to be interviewed by DR (Danish Broadcasting Corporation, national public radio). Tonight, DR brought the interview with Bob in their program Harddisken (third section), with an almost half-hour long theme about open standards hosted by Henrik FÃ¸hns. He had invited me in the studio for comments and debate with Marie Munk, Deputy Director General in the National IT and Telecom Agency. Bob apprears ...