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Norway throws weight behind open source
by
Khairil Yusof
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last modified
2005-06-30 03:40 PM
Contributors:
John Blau, IDG News Service
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Norwegian Minister for Modernization Morton Andreas Meyer is asking all government institutions in the sparsely populated Nordic country to have a plan in place for the use of open-source software by the end of 2006.
Without referring specifically to Microsoft, Meyer, who is responsible for the Norwegian government's IT policy, said earlier this week at a news conference in Oslo that "proprietary formats will no longer be acceptable in communication between citizens and government."
Source: Infoworld
