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[News] A Glimpse at Free Software Adoption in Polish Government

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Open source tour of Europe: Poland

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| Poland boasts a number of active open source adoption projects, including 
| Gdansk which began migrating its mail servers from Windows NT/Exchange to Red 
| Hat/Postfix in 2001 and has also adopted PostgreSQL, MySQL and 
| OpenOffice.org. Previously, in 2003, the Forum for the Development of Free 
| Software was initiated by the Ministry of Science and Information to support 
| wider use of open source software in Poland.     
| 
| The Polish government has also had a couple of attempts at delivering a set 
| of guidelines for the adoption of open source software, before recommending 
| the use of open standards in 2007. Meanwhile adoption projects have continued 
| in Warsaw and Krakow.   
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http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2008/06/13/open-source-tour-of-europe-poland/

Recent stories of Microsoft corruption in Poland are appended below. EU fines
are on their way (it's still being investigated).


Recent:

OOXML ISO aftermath in Poland

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| Tomasz Bednarski (Mandriva Poland) wrote a letter to PKN president, Tomasz 
| Schweitzer, in which he expressed his concerns about the Polish OOXML 
| ratification process which Bednarski took part of, as a member of the 
| technical committee 182. We publish the translation of his letter and the 
| response from Schweitzer.    
| 
| [...]
| 
| So, it seems that the OOXML saga in Poland is far from over and there will be 
| more proceedings in the nearest future, which we will pass to you as soon as 
| we hear about them. Thank you for now.  
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http://polishlinux.org/poland/ooxml-iso-aftermath-in-poland/


Polish chairwoman distributes Microsoft propaganda

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| The Chairwoman of the polish Technical Committee has distributed 
| documentation about the BRM authored by Microsoft. She has also changed the 
| voting rules for the email ballot to "If you don't vote, it is counted as a 
| YES", and she has threatened to sue committee members if they spread 
| accusations. What a nice broken chairwoman they have in Poland.    
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http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-49455/polish-chairwoman-distributes-microsoft-propaganda


"Abstain from voting"

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| Evil! "Abstain from voting" means no new vote will get submitted, so the 
| September vote will be carried! In the case of Poland it was an approval vote 
| for the OOOXML standard with comments attached. Yes, Poland felt it could 
| support the approval of a standard candidate that got more than 2300 pages of 
| dispositions of comments. And now the logic I fail to get is: if we fail to 
| approve we do nothing and carry the previous approval vote. ISO procudures 
| sometimes feel like a witch test.      
| 
| "Abstain from voting" != submission of an "Abstain" vote.
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http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-48992/abstain-from-voting


Possible manipulation around OOXML process in Poland

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| Just to remind you, on Thursday’s meeting 12 members voted for OOXML, 10 
| members voted against it and 2 abstained from voting. As the consensus has 
| not been achieved, Andrukiewicz decided that the voting should continue by 
| e-mail and all the missing members should be allowed to vote. What she did 
| not mention is that if the missing members fail to send her an e-mail with 
| their stance, it will be automatically assumed they vote yes. This is one of 
| the crazy rules of PKN process of opinioning new ISO standards.      
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http://polishlinux.org/poland/possible-manipulation-around-ooxml-process-in-poland/


Poland Fails to Approve OOXML; Chairman Decides Members Can Vote by Email 10
More Days - huh?

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| This is different. There is a report by Borys Musielak of PolishLinux.org 
| that Poland met to vote on OOXML on Thursday. Of 45 members of the committee 
| eligible to vote, 24 showed up to vote, and it split almost down the middle, 
| with 12 for, 10 against and 2 abstaining. This is extraordinary, since Poland 
| voted yes in September, despite the technical committee being opposed. I call 
| that progress.     
| 
| But here is the worrying part: when it became clear that there was no 
| consensus, and it was not going to be a Yes vote, the chairman "decided to 
| allow the missing members to vote by e-mail during the next 10 days".  
| 
| What to make of a process that keeps reinventing itself as it goes along? 
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080322203811784


No consensus over OOXML in Poland, yet

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| Last Thursday PKN (Polish Normalization Committee) had a meeting on which it 
| was supposed to come up with the decision concerning Polish recommendation 
| for ISO/IEC DIS 29500 (OOXML) proposed standard. The common stance has not 
| been acheived.   
| 
| [...]
| 
| Yes, we do know a few more details concerning the process and the type of 
| dirty politics that took place just before and during the meeting, but we are 
| not going to releal it just yet, hoping that the chairman of KT 182 and the 
| PKN itself makes a proper decision in the end (which is to abstain from 
| voting as there has been no consensus about OOXML in KT).    
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http://polishlinux.org/poland/no-consensus-over-ooxml-in-poland-yet/


Shenanigans Alleged on Road to OOXML Vote

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| The events leading up to the ISO's decision on OOXML can best be described as 
| strange. 
|
| Take the case of KT 182, the Polish technical committee responsible for the 
| OOXML standardization process, as described on Groklaw: Chairperson Elzbieta 
| Andrukiewicz was instructed that KT 182 should abstain from voting if a 
| consensus was not achieved. Well, it wasn't, and she said the members who 
| were absent could vote by e-mail E-Mail Marketing Software - Free Trial. 
| Click Here. -- but if they didn't vote, she'd take their non-response as a 
| yes.      
| 
| Later, when presenting the results of the ballot resolution, she showed a 
| slide that claimed 98 percent of the OOXML issues had been resolved during 
| the KT 182 meeting.  
| 
| When reminded this wasn't true, and told that the author of the PowerPoint 
| file was Paul Pesch, platform strategy manager at Microsoft Netherlands, she 
| threatened to sue anyone who repeated the assertion that Pesch was the 
| author.   
| 
| That slide had been shown at another meeting, and one of the Brazilian 
| delegates had complained about it.  
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/62400.html


Related:

ODF Alliance Hails Brazil, India, Italy, and Poland for Recognizing
OpenDocument Format

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| The OpenDocument Format Alliance (ODF Alliance), a broad
| cross-section of organizations, academia and industry dedicated
| to improving access to electronic government documents, today
| applauded Brazil's decision to recommend ODF as the government's
| preferred format; India's decision to use ODF at a major state
| government agency; and Italy's decision to recognize ODF as
| national standard.
| 
| The Alliance also recognized Poland, too, for demonstrating serious
| interest in adopting ODF in the wake of a national meeting held for
| its government with broad participants from industry and non-profit
| agencies.
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http://www5.sys-con.com/read/306120_p.htm


Poland against OOXML?

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| Polish Technical Committee no 171 has just voted 80% against the adoption 
| OOXML as an ISO standard [PL]. 
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http://polishlinux.org/poland/poland-against-ooxml/


Polish National Interoperability Framework promotes Open Standards

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| This basically means that Microsoft’s Office Open XML will not be 
| treated as open standard, thus not preferred in Polish e-Government 
| services, making OpenDocument Format the office standard of choice. 
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http://polishlinux.org/gnu/polish-national-interoperability-framework-promotes-open-standards/


Poland says "Yes, with comments" to OOXML

http://sciitnews.com/news_4055.html


Poland votes yes on OOXML

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| Several protests were sent already to PKN and TC 182 on behalf of: Free and 
| Open Source Foundation, TC 171 members, Google Poland, IBM Poland, but I 
| really doubt they will make the difference in Polish vote among ISO. The 
| whole process was planned to the last minute so that there is not enough time 
| to protest or make any changes. Although it is not as clear situation of 
| vote-buying as in Sweden, it strikes me as something from typical Microsoft 
| lobbying portfolio.      
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http://wanted.eu.org/en/computers/microsoft/poland_votes_yes_on_ooxml
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