The use of open standards will be made mandatory for public administrations. A law proposal by MP Astrid Oosenbrug was adopted by the Parliament's lower house yesterday. According to the MP, the open standards requirement will be one of several changes to the country's administrative law, introduced next year. "The minister has earlier agreed to make open standards mandatory", she said. "The parliament is making sure this actually happens."
The first public administration that should improve its use of open standards, is the Parliament's lower house itself, MP Oosenbrug said. "Ironically, lower house published the adopted law on its website by providing a download link to a document in a proprietary format."
A sensible move from a sensible people.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 14 2016, @07:33PM
While it would be better for open hardware to be the standard, I think we need to recognize that, at this point, that it isn't feasible to edict the government to use them, as there just aren't the options.
What they are doing is handling the problem that they can handle, (data being in free formats) rather than the one they cannot (hardware being open).