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Hollandi valitsus on väga aktiivselt asunud toetama avatud lähtekoodiga tarkvara ja avatud standardeid. Muuhulgas on loodud riiklik programm ODF (OpenDocument) failivormingu kasutuselevõtuks. Viimaseks suuremaks ürituseks oli Haagis toimunud “ODF Interoperability Workshop“. Ürituse avakõne pidas Hollandi väliskaubandusminister Frank Heemskerk, kes muuhulgas ütles järgmist:

In making ODF support compulsory, the Netherlands can rightly be called a forerunner. One important mainstay of the open standard policy is the introduction of ODF as a format for reading, writing, sharing, publishing and receiving documents. All government bodies are now required to support this standard.

The Dutch government has gained support for its policy regarding open standards and open source software within the consultative bodies in Brussels, which has been done by increasing contacts with policymakers and the open source software communities in the leading countries in the field, such as the Scandinavian countries.

The next step is to coordinate the various implementation methods on the market, so that users are more willing to employ ODF. Our challenge is to convince users that:

• ODF promotes interoperability; processing and exchanging documents with IT applications supports the core processes of all government organisations.
• Open document standards such as ODF are crucial to long-lasting document use.
• ODF helps the government improve its services, because it enables citizens and businesses to download and upload documents and forms in any format they choose
• ODF promotes supplier independence: with open standards, it is easier to switch to other IT options
• It is easier for new parties to compete in the government’s tendering and procurement procedures because ODF facilitates supplier independence. This, in turn, promotes innovation.

Ka ODF Alliance on avaldanud sellel teemal pikema pressiteate: “New ODF Interoperability Initiatives Launched at Dutch Government Workshop” (PDF).