Microsoft trying to delay ODF adoption in Croatia
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| In April 2007. Office for e-Croatia (governmental body responsible for all
| things e-related) proposed introduction of ODF format as a national standard.
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| [...]
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| However, in this particular case, Microsoft announced objections shortly
| before the deadline, thus delaying the resolution of the proposal, and maybe
| even forcing rejection of the proposal. Due to the secrecy that shrouds the
| work of CSI, I can't tell what the objections are, nor whether Microsoft has
| majority of its business partners as members of the panel (although it is
| very likely so), but the last minute objections are confirmed.
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| [...]
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| Even if things don't turn out that way, there's the possibility that
| Microsoft might force OOXML acceptance by sheer voting power within the
| panel, although I believe that in the case of OOXML failing ISO approval,
| Microsoft would not dare to display such power over entire nation, at least
| not while in the limelight.
|
| [...]
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| What does, however, is the fact that Microsoft and business partners are
| clearly abusing CSI panel for their own selfish interests, where they as
| members should think only of the benefit for the people of Croatia.
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http://www.oddparity.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=28&Itemid=1
Related:
Digitally Free Schools
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| Marco Fioretti started new personal initiative which will hopefully make lots
| of parents and teachers understand why they cannot ignore FOSS and Free
| Culture anymore in the interest of their own children. He's going to publish
| a directory of Digitally Free Schools, that all parents may check when
| choosing a new school for their children.
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http://kost.com.hr/blog/index.php?title=digitally_free_schools&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1
Croatian government defined open source policy
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| Today, Croatian goverment specified how to handle open source in
| government offices, ministries and agencies. Document is called Open
| source policy and it gives good push to open source implementation
| in government bodies.
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http://kost.com.hr/blog/index.php?title=croatian_government_defined_open_source_&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1
Croatian government adopts free software policy
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| Basically it feels that proprietary software leads to too much dependence on
| suppliers, which can damage the market competition.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=33120
Croats embrace open source software
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| The Croatian government has decided to dump proprietary software and
| move entirely to Open Source.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=33860
Corrupt countries were more likely to support the OOXML document format
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| Is this just a random coincidence? The median of the CPI index of the above
| mentioned 70 countries is 3.95. Of the most corrupted half (CPI index less
| than 3.95) 23 or 77% voted for approval (approval or approval with comments)
| and 7 or 23% for disapproval; 5 abstained. Of the least corrupted half (CPI
| index more than 3.95) 13 or 54% voted for approval and 11 or 46% voted for
| disapproval; 11 abstained - see the table below.
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http://www.effi.org/blog/kai-2007-09-05.en.html
Microsoft accused of more OOXML standards fiddling
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| However the 11 new countries are refusing to say how they will vote. These
| include Cote d'Ivoire, Cyprus, Ecuador, Jamaica, Lebanon, Malta, Pakistan,
| Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Uruguay and Venezuela. Most people seem to think
| that these have been put there by Vole to make sure the standard gets pushed
| through.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=42106
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