{"id":259,"date":"2007-12-14T08:51:52","date_gmt":"2007-12-14T16:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ryanorser.com\/?p=259"},"modified":"2007-12-14T08:51:52","modified_gmt":"2007-12-14T16:51:52","slug":"dutch-government-adopts-open-source-software-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/2007\/12\/14\/dutch-government-adopts-open-source-software-initiative\/","title":{"rendered":"Dutch Government Adopts Open Source Software Initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span><\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/it.slashdot.org\/it\/07\/12\/14\/1353230.shtml\">Dutch Government Adopts Open Source Software Initiative<\/a><\/h3>\n<p class=\"details\">  \t \t<strong>Posted by \t \t<a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/%7EZonk\/\">Zonk<\/a>  \ton Friday December 14, @09:42AM<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>from the <strong>who-doesn&#8217;t-love-a-good-open-government<\/strong> dept.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"body\">\n<p class=\"topic\"> \t\t \t\t \t\t \t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/search.pl?tid=185\"> \t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/images.slashdot.org\/topics\/topicsoftware.gif\" alt=\"Software\" title=\"Software\" height=\"65\" width=\"65\" \/> \t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"intro\"> \t\t\t<a href=\"mailto:einfeldtNO@SPAMdigitaltippingpoint.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">christian.einfeldt<\/a> writes <em>&#8220;The Dutch government has set a target date of April 2008 for its agencies to <a href=\"http:\/\/ap.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5gK-eb7SFzG8QLvOOlfdt_cPMnFmwD8TGNLJ80\">start preferentially using open standards-based software<\/a>. Organizations in the government will still be able to use proprietary software and formats &#8230; but will have to justify it. A Microsoft Netherlands spokesman claims that Microsoft&#8217;s Office productivity suite will still be used widely in the Dutch government until April, and that Microsoft Office will comply with the new Dutch rules once Microsoft&#8217;s so-called &#8220;Open Office XML&#8221; standard is approved as an international ISO standard in February.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"intro\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"intro\">Story from <a href=\"http:\/\/it.slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=07\/12\/14\/1353230\">slashdot.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dutch Government Adopts Open Source Software Initiative Posted by Zonk on Friday December 14, @09:42AM from the who-doesn&#8217;t-love-a-good-open-government dept. christian.einfeldt writes &#8220;The Dutch government has set a target date of April 2008 for its agencies to start preferentially using open standards-based software. Organizations in the government will still be able to use proprietary software and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}