A friend has told me that the Dutch government has issued a tender that
blatantly violateds the government's own open standards statements or
policies. It's a tender from about 7 ministries for 22,000 desktop
computers with specific references to MS technologies such as Active
Directory when LDAP would suffice.
The tender's called "GOUD" and the choice of technologies is expected to be
used by the government for the next 5-10 years.
This could be stopped either by writing to the Dutch government or to the
European Commission, but writing such a letter takes work to find the
relevent Dutch government policies or European laws, who to send it to etc.
If we want a government to take a stand against rigged tenders, the Dutch
government seems a good candidate due to it's outspoken support of open
standards.
Is anyone interested in working on this?
(or does anyone know of free software supporters already working on it?)
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Hello,
I have found IDABC being a good source for news about EC and open
source, but a search on teh list didn't give me this link, so I make a
pub here:
"The Open Source Observatory (OSO) is dedicated to Free/Libre/Open
Source Software and is intended to encourage the spread and use of best
practices in Europe's public sector.
This section of the IDABC website provides news about the latest
FLOSS-related developments and events in the public sector. Monthly case
studies examine in-depth how administrations use FLOSS to their
advantage. This site is also the home of the European Union Public
License, offering documentation and answering frequent questions. Expert
studies on various aspects of FLOSS are offered for download."
http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/en/chapter/452
Marc
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