Norway: Open standards in the government
Norwegian Minister of Modernization Morten Andreas Meyer declared: “Proprietary formats will no longer be acceptable in communication between citizens and government.” The minister also requires that all government institutions “by the end of 2005 have worked out a recommendation for the use of open source code in the public sector”.
P.S. Restaurant Lehtoranta threatens to sue for a critique published on the net. The demand is just silly. Luckily the person being sued is a lawyer and an activist of Electronic Frontier Finland.
